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(Rick Kaplan) To Rescue Katie (Couric)?
NY Post ^
| 12/28/06
| Richard Johnson
Posted on 12/28/2006 5:34:56 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: couric; kaplan
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The kiss of death, if true...
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:35:02 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:37:56 AM PST
by
rod1
To: jimbo123
She should consult the Iraq Study Group...
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:38:55 AM PST
by
johnny7
("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:41:01 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:43:28 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: jimbo123
I could see GABE Kaplan rescuing Katy but Rick?
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:44:39 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: mewzilla
Wonder if the Chris Matthews speaking fees thing had anything to do with this?
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:45:42 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Just another Joe
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:49:21 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:51:52 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:57:35 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: ClearCase_guy
The ratings for her 1st show are kinda like what happens to traffic going past a bad accident. Rubberneckers.
________________________________________
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."
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:59:11 AM PST
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: jimbo123
Yep, that's the one that could save Katy.
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:59:41 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: jimbo123
After a brief stint on top of the ratings when she launched in September, IIRC, this "stint" lasted about an hour.
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:00:21 AM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: jimbo123
Rumored new advertising slogan for CBS News
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:01:54 AM PST
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: jimbo123
...and Gilligan is the new captain of the Titanic!
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:12:49 AM PST
by
TheRedSoxWinThePennant
(Hey CBS third aint so bad. You get a medal in the olympics for it)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:15:14 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: Just another Joe
I could see GABE Kaplan rescuing Katy but Rick? How about Gabe Kapler?
Shown with wife.
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:19:39 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The artist doesn't have to have all the answers; he must, however, ask the right questions honestly.)
To: TomGuy
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.
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:23:44 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The artist doesn't have to have all the answers; he must, however, ask the right questions honestly.)
To: AppyPappy
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?
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:28:25 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The artist doesn't have to have all the answers; he must, however, ask the right questions honestly.)
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