Posted on 12/28/2006 6:08:58 PM PST by LdSentinal
CBS News is denying it, but rumors are rampant that news anchor Katie Couric needs a ratings rescue, and that veteran news executive Rick Kaplan, freshly off of his MSNBC job, is just the man being pulled in for the job, reports Page Six.
CBS "Evening News" ratings under Couric, after an initial viewer curiousity bump, have dropped right back down to third place, where Schieffer and Rather had left lagged for years.
Kaplan was the man at the helm at ABC News when Bill Clinton was president. He has been out at MSNBC since the summertime, when Dan Abrams let him go.
Couric has been unable to capitalize on her daytime talk show host success since the big move to serious news anchor. Perhaps executives are nervous enough after all these months to finally acknowledge they may have made a mistake putting a perky female in such a prominent, serious role.
Time to shove another camera up her rear end...
Katie should turn tricks.......
Media whores do just that.
And make her squeal like a pig...
I thought her ratings were even lower than Rather the laggard.
Watch for the Sharon Stone gambit ... or is that now known as Brittany's Betty Move?
Katie is not my favorite person, but I think she has done a good job in the reporting area. They changed the format in many ways all at once, and it is not working at all. I don't know that she was anticipating that, and it is not helping. I just can't blame all the ratings on her.
Yea, an IMAX camera.
Not that I'd want to see the film on what it recorded, but the size is right :-))
HD TV is not kind to the perky one.
That's strange. I keep reading articles by MSM RATS that it's perfectly acceptable for Katie to have lower ratings than Seinfeld re-runs.
I think Katie needs to interview that Mt. Hoood widow again.
*i* know, have pert katie couric try a sharon stone on camera, (er, on second thought forget that, ratings would go to zero - no sex appeal, only lesbians would watch)
maybe invite britney spears on camera to do a sharon stone (er, forget that - no sex appeal any more either, might as well put on madonna, only sixty year old men would watch)
got it! invite Hillary on camera, and have the witch do a "sharon stone crossing her legs" - ratings through the roof! *everyone* would watch to settle the bet on what will show up under the kimono!
I keep emailing CBS to drop Couric.
SeeBS is gonna have to shell out some major mulah to buy her out....
Look at the pic posted @ #4. She looks more like a painted street whore than a "media whore"!
That she gets viewers other than Cindy Sheehan is a testimony to American bad taste.
Well now, who'da thunk it?
Enough with the perky already! Are they going to be describing her as perky when she's 70?
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