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Couric Gets Trounced During May Sweeps (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
TV Blend ^ | May 28, 2007 | Mack Rawden

Posted on 05/28/2007 1:48:17 PM PDT by abb

Most people think the Nielson ratings only apply to primetime programming; however, this is a complete fallacy. Network news plays a frequently forgotten but always important roll itself. A few days ago the final May Sweep totals were announced, and let’s just say it wasn’t pretty for ‘CBS Evening News With Katie Couric.’

According to Variety, the perky anchorwoman managed an average of just 6.1 million viewers. That’s the lowest Tiffany network total since they began tracking the news in 1991! ABC’s ‘World News With Charlie Gibson’ led the way with 7.95 Million, while NBC’s ‘Nightly News With Brian Williams’ narrowly finished second with 7.3 Million people tuning in. Gibson’s victory gives the crown to ABC for the first time since Peter Jennings finished first in 1996.

Let me try and put this is as simplistically as I can. Dan Rather was a complete unquestioned failure. He lost a large percentage of Walter Cronkite’s enormous audience within a few years and ended up retiring, almost completely disgraced last May. Katie Couric makes Rather’s tumultuous tenure seem like a gift from God. Thus far, her short stint has been marked by an inability to read the teleprompter, proven plagiarism, and an increased emphasis on soft news.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; biasmeanslayoffs; cbs; ccrm; couric; haha; news; television; trysellingthetruth
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To: nyyankeefan
katie sucks and eventually the brain trust at see-bs will acknowledge the fact and she will be gone!!!

It may take them a dozen years or so.

41 posted on 05/28/2007 9:40:02 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: potlatch


Newstainment

Heavy on the "stain"


42 posted on 05/28/2007 10:46:09 PM PDT by devolve ( _ignore_tax_the_illegal_alien_way?_ _SELLING_OUT_AMERICA?_)
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To: bert

Yep


43 posted on 05/29/2007 3:53:00 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: potlatch

LOLOLOL!

That’s terrific!


44 posted on 05/29/2007 12:27:25 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: PhilDragoo
Oh my goodness!
LOLOL!


That's PERFECT!

45 posted on 05/29/2007 12:32:32 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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