(Rick Kaplan) To Rescue Katie (Couric)?

NY Post ^ | 12/28/06 | Richard Johnson

[jimbo123]

RICK Kaplan, the veteran network news exec who most recently ran MSNBC, is rumored to be coming to CBS News to help boost Katie Couric's ratings on the "Evening News." After a brief stint on top of the ratings when she launched in September, Couric has been mired in third place, right where Bob Schieffer was and where Dan Rather was before him. Kaplan, who ran ABC News when his friend Bill Clinton was in the White House, has been unemployed since Dan Abrams replaced him last summer at MSNBC. CBS News denies Kaplan is coming aboard, but the buzz goes on.

[jimbo123]

The kiss of death, if true...

[rod1]

Oh please let it be true. Kaplan had trashed every network he every even visited. CNN for example.

But the MSM loves deck-chair-rotating losers. MSNBC should reciprocate by hiring Mapes and Dan Rather as their new ethics officers.

[johnny7]

She should consult the Iraq Study Group...

[ClearCase_guy]

After a brief stint on top of the ratings when she launched in September...

Ratings have been going down hill since that very first show.

[mewzilla]

The Strange Odyssey of MSNBC's Rick Kaplan

[Just another Joe]

I could see GABE Kaplan rescuing Katy but Rick?

[mewzilla]

Wonder if the Chris Matthews speaking fees thing had anything to do with this?

[jimbo123]

[AppyPappy]

Even I could put Katie in first place. All she has to do is start attacking the Democrats in Congress. That would make her unique.

But CBS is pwn3d by the Democrats so she will have to suffer in last place.

[TomGuy]

I had predicted CBS News would try a co-host to help Couric out. I just thought it would be a month or so earlier.

CBS has too many $$$ invested in her at this point.

[savedbygrace]

The ratings for her 1st show are kinda like what happens to traffic going past a bad accident. Rubberneckers.

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Guy goes into a Ferrari showroom and wants to buy the fastest, meanest car on the showroom floor. The salesman, realizing the guy couldn't handle it, asks, "What would you do if you were driving this car at 160 miles per hour, and came over the top of a hill, and there's a semi truck laying across the road ahead, giving you no time to stop?"

Guy says, "I'd wake up Joe."

"You'd wake up Joe? Why?"

"Joe ain't never seen a bad accident before."

[Just another Joe]

Yep, that's the one that could save Katy.

[wagglebee]

After a brief stint on top of the ratings when she launched in September,

IIRC, this "stint" lasted about an hour.

[abb]

Rumored new advertising slogan for CBS News

[RabidBartender]

...and Gilligan is the new captain of the Titanic!

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

didnt they try this with rather and chung?

Hey CBS!!! 2 liberal propagandists is not any more effective than one.

Brit Hume for anchor (although I love special report)It would be so sweet to see him kick ass in the ratings. Of course CBS will never do.

[PGalt]

FReeper humor bump! LOL!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I could see GABE Kaplan rescuing Katy but Rick?

How about Gabe Kapler?

Shown with wife.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

CBS has too many $$$ invested in her at this point.

The cardinal sin in business and poker is throwing good money after bad. Future decisions cannot erase past mistakes. Successful businesses are forward looking and CBS was very successful for a number of years. Of course, CBS is just a Viacom brand these days, there is no "CBS" corporate entity any more.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I dunno, saw a seconds of her interview with the mountain climber's widow (half time network promo, iirc). Anyway, it was appalling. What are those brainiacs at CBS thinking? Do they ask their current aging boomer wives who they think is the most "serious" and interesting person in journalism today?