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CBS to give Couric a male co-anchor to boost ratings
Monsters and Critics ^ | 9/29/07 | Stone Martindale

Posted on 09/29/2007 1:01:09 PM PDT by LdSentinal

Katie Couric's dismal ratings for the nightly CBS evening news will be addressed by adding a male anchor to her desk.

Rumor has it Couric is getting a co-host on the CBS Evening News and it's going to be a man.

The network was confident that Katie would be the archetype for more successful female news anchors, but the magic has yet to be realized in ratings.

CBS is in third for the ratings. Katie's Iraq trip also failed to pull in any ratings spike or additional audience.

Hollywood reporter Janet Charlton claims that "behind closed doors, the network had Anderson Cooper at the top of their wish-list for co-anchor, but he has an iron-clad contract with CNN. So the search is on."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; cbs; cbsnews; courage; couric; liberal; liberalmedia
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1 posted on 09/29/2007 1:01:16 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal
Toast

2 posted on 09/29/2007 1:02:38 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: LdSentinal

LOL!!!

I still don’t know why they replaced Bob Schieffer.

He did an adequate job and appealed to the older demographic CBS attracts.


3 posted on 09/29/2007 1:02:41 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (A government that’s big enough to do everything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us.- F.T)
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To: LdSentinal

Will the new anchor be getting the same paycheck as Katie?


4 posted on 09/29/2007 1:02:51 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: LdSentinal

Dan Rather!


5 posted on 09/29/2007 1:03:31 PM PDT by saganite
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Will the new anchor be getting the same paycheck as Katie?

Only if he shows as much cleavage.

6 posted on 09/29/2007 1:04:16 PM PDT by Wil H (Turning $1000 into $100,000 through cattle futures requires the "willing suspension of disbelief")
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To: LdSentinal

How come everyone but CBS knew this would fail?


7 posted on 09/29/2007 1:04:27 PM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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To: saganite

Rush Limbaugh!


8 posted on 09/29/2007 1:04:54 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: LdSentinal

Wow! Is CBS still on the air? And who is Katie Couric?


9 posted on 09/29/2007 1:05:58 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: LdSentinal

Please, let it be Joe Scarborough.

[does anyone watch the Nets anymore?]


10 posted on 09/29/2007 1:06:16 PM PDT by IslandJeff ("Gold Dust Woman" - the unplayed Clinton song)
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To: LdSentinal

It’s not about her being a woman.

They don’t get it.


11 posted on 09/29/2007 1:06:20 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Wil H

Let ‘em have Shep!


12 posted on 09/29/2007 1:06:37 PM PDT by hotshu
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To: LdSentinal

Hey, that’s cheating.


13 posted on 09/29/2007 1:06:44 PM PDT by Brilliant
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And who is Katie Couric?

You may know her as "Little Miss Perky."

14 posted on 09/29/2007 1:07:00 PM PDT by jmyrlefuller
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To: LdSentinal

so they will rotate guys until they find a “hit” then the lady is gone


15 posted on 09/29/2007 1:07:13 PM PDT by Flavius
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Lawl


16 posted on 09/29/2007 1:08:10 PM PDT by clyde asbury (All lovers are deranged)
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To: LdSentinal

I have always despised that cute little (leftist bitch) chipmonk. Notice to PC CBS....cut her a check and let her go :-)


17 posted on 09/29/2007 1:08:30 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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But . . .but . . . but . . .I thought hiring on the basis of gender was illegal, immoral and unethical?


18 posted on 09/29/2007 1:08:49 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: jmyrlefuller

see post 17


19 posted on 09/29/2007 1:09:12 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: LdSentinal
I wondered who they sent in to deliver the news to Ms. Couric. Probably hired a temp with a terminal disease so when she killed him and ate his liver they wouldn’t be sued.
I got to admit I am chuckling a bit. That had to leave a mark.
20 posted on 09/29/2007 1:09:33 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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