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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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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
How about Gabe Kapler?

Nope, even HE couldn't save Katy.
It would take someone with Kaplan's vast knowledge of how to turn a phrase the comedic way to save Katy.

21 posted on 12/28/2006 6:40:06 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: jimbo123
Let's see what we have here. An executive with another network, that is going down the toilet fast, will be brought in to "save" Couric's Nightly News, which is going down the toilet fast. Why do I have a vision of someone throwing a concrete life buoy to a drowning woman?

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Nancy D'Alesandro's Culture of Corruption"

22 posted on 12/28/2006 6:44:44 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Please get involved.)
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To: TomGuy
I had predicted CBS News would try a co-host to help Couric out.

If this happens, watch for a cooking segment on the evening news---it's what Katie does best ;-)

23 posted on 12/28/2006 6:47:17 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: 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 ]

Oooo..Ooo.Ooo.OOO.OOOoo.. Nevermind.. - persona: Horshack

24 posted on 12/28/2006 6:52:20 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Gabe Kapler would be the perfect fit. A sub-par baseball player with a sub-par news anchor.
25 posted on 12/28/2006 7:21:09 AM PST by BW2221
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Didn't CBS properties spin off from Viacom recently? I think CBS properties are now a stand alone enterprise.


26 posted on 12/28/2006 7:29:45 AM PST by Surtur (Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
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To: Right_in_Virginia
If this happens, watch for a cooking segment on the evening news---it's what Katie does best ;-)

I've noticed on FoxNews, that E.D. Hill's 3 hours have turned into more fluff than substance any more.

I don't understand why news broadcasts seems to think they need fluff and entertainment. Don't they realize people tune in for news, not fluff?
27 posted on 12/28/2006 7:36:50 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
The networks are enamored with the female demographic.
28 posted on 12/28/2006 7:45:01 AM PST by Bratch
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To: rod1
Would CBS be that stupid? That is like an NFL team recruiting Maurice Clarette or DA Mike Nifong charging someone with a alibi with rape and asking a lab to keep evidence from the defense. Then again . . .
29 posted on 12/28/2006 7:45:47 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Surtur

That may be, but CBS was acquired by Westinghouse Broadcasting that then began operating under the name CBS. That entity was swallowed and now apparently disgorged by Viacom. CBS is like RCA, only a brand name.


30 posted on 12/28/2006 7:59:40 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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To: TomGuy
I don't understand why news broadcasts seems to think they need fluff and entertainment.

Consider the "talent". Without the fluff and entertainment, they'd actually have to do some research, do some actual work.

Fluff is easier.

31 posted on 12/28/2006 11:51:32 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Dante3

Good analogies, or like the Raiders or Texans hiring Matt Millen away from the Lions to be GM.

This is a puzzling move if true and if CBS wants Katie to actually get worse ratings then they have hired the right guy. MSNBC is a wreck following Kaplan's brilliance and Dan Abrams has carries on that fine tradition of mediocrity.


32 posted on 12/28/2006 11:59:53 AM PST by outfield
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To: Right_in_Virginia
All them Po' elderly folk in Alzheimer's wards still watch CBS. They have problems relating to "Perky" because she doesn't make sense. They need to get Blather back. now that's BS they can sink their gums into.
33 posted on 12/28/2006 12:00:15 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: jimbo123

Rick Caplan, a Clinton activist and extremist liberal has just taken over as the head of MSNBC. Caplan was formerly with CNN and ABC and has a reputation as a Clinton ideologue who uses his position of power in the media to promote his leftwing agenda.

While at CNN and during the Clinton Whitewater scandals, he ordered CNN reporters to "limit the use of the word 'scandal'" in reporting about his close friend Clinton. And when the Monica sex scandal erupted, Caplan used the power of CNN to vilify Clinton's critics.

FrontPage Magazine has a lengthy article describing Caplan's shameful leftist bias and his misuse of the media to promote his ideology. As author Lowell Ponte notes, "With Caplan's entrenchment, MSNBC will, like the other establishment networks, almost certainly become just another cookie cutter stamping out a daily batch of predictable one-sided, pro-Democrat, anti-Republican, pro-Leftist propaganda."


34 posted on 03/07/2007 10:15:58 PM PST by Enduring Freedom (what does al qaeda and bush have in common? caves)
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