That could be debated. And you know how Old Man Redstone likes to look at stock charts that go up only.
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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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.
Biggest swindler in the history of the planet.
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.
That could be debated. And you know how Old Man Redstone likes to look at stock charts that go up only.
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.
Check your FReepmail.
True enough.
Book?
Names would have to be VERY changed to protect the innocent guilty!
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