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Couric’s Fate Was Topic A in CBS Suite (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
The New York Times ^ | April 11, 2008 | BILL CARTER and JACQUES STEINBERG

Posted on 04/11/2008 3:33:26 AM PDT by abb

A wide-ranging discussion in February about Katie Couric’s future as the anchor of the “CBS Evening News” threatened on Thursday to turn her into a virtual lame duck in the job.

The discussion took place in New York on Feb. 28 and involved four people: Ms. Couric; her agent, Alan Berger of the Creative Artists Agency; Sean McManus, the president of CBS News; and Leslie Moonves, the chairman of CBS. The meeting took place in Mr. Moonves’s office.

The conversation included what one participant said was some “idle talk and musings” about the big question hanging over CBS News: should Ms. Couric leave her position as the news anchor after the presidential election, a development that had long been rumored.

No one involved in the meeting or briefed on its particulars would be identified for attribution because of the delicate nature of the talks. But Ms. Couric discussed several things she might do if she left the anchor post, according to the executives, including a daily talk show to be syndicated by CBS, or replacing Larry King in a prime-time position on CNN. (Ms. Couric was said to have dismissed out of hand the suggestion that she could return to morning television on the network’s perennially troubled “Early Show.”)

But the conclusion drawn from the meeting, the executives said, was that no decision about the anchor job would be made until after the presidential election and inauguration.

However, rumors from CBS News and reported in the news media may have, inadvertently or not, done what the meeting failed to do: ensured Ms. Couric’s early departure.

Though some people close to Ms. Couric, as well as some professional associates, said Thursday they believed... she would not remain as anchor through the election, and might leave in the next few weeks...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; couric; dbm; katietheclown; television
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To: Husker8877

Getting paid 15 mill a year for reaching the level of highest level incompetence is not a bad deal. Most people are paid much less to be incompetent.

I think Katie should go for a spot on the View. She’d fit right in.


61 posted on 04/11/2008 11:44:12 AM PDT by y6162
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To: abb
Alan Berger of the Creative Artists Agency

Biggest swindler in the history of the planet.

62 posted on 04/11/2008 11:46:24 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: abb
abb,

I think Moonves will stay at CBS, because frankly, there's nobody around that can replace his influence at the company. Outside of the unfortunate Katic Couric fiasco, Moonves has done fairly well at CBS.

63 posted on 04/11/2008 11:58:57 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
Outside of the unfortunate Katic Couric fiasco, Moonves has done fairly well at CBS.

That could be debated. And you know how Old Man Redstone likes to look at stock charts that go up only.


64 posted on 04/11/2008 12:15:50 PM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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To: MindBender26

I realized my post came off quite poorly on re-read, and just wanted to apologize.

Must have been a great life to-date, I bet you could write an awesome book. If you haven’t, you should.


65 posted on 04/12/2008 1:01:01 AM PDT by Husker8877
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To: Big Red Clay

Check your FReepmail.


66 posted on 04/12/2008 1:01:49 AM PDT by Husker8877
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To: y6162

True enough.


67 posted on 04/12/2008 1:02:22 AM PDT by Husker8877
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To: Husker8877
No harm, no foul, no offense taken.

Book?

Names would have to be VERY changed to protect the innocent guilty!

68 posted on 04/12/2008 8:21:13 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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