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CBS News Collapses As Katie Couric Heads For The Door (New round of layoffs expected this fall)
Business Insider ^ | 09/01/2010 | rebecca Dana

Posted on 09/01/2010 9:39:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

With a new round of layoffs expected this fall, CBS News is being trimmed to the bone. Rebecca Dana on the dramatic drop in ratings, strange BlackBerry blackouts, and eager suitors for anchor Katie Couric.

On Monday, Katie Couric begins her fifth, and quite possibly final, year of hard labor as anchor of the CBS Evening News.

However she chooses to mark the occasion, it will no doubt be more subdued than the tears, dancing, and $10 million promotional campaign that attended her debut on Sept. 5, 2006.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; cbsnews; collapses; couric; katiecouric; layoffs; news; perkypainintheass
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1 posted on 09/01/2010 9:39:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Katie Couric begins her fifth, and quite possibly final, year of hard labor as anchor of the CBS Evening News.

Hard labor??? Good God.
No wonder this country's news is in the toilet...

2 posted on 09/01/2010 9:42:17 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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How anyone in their right mind could be an ‘eager suitor’ for Perky Katie leaves me scratching my head. Way overpaid and vastly under-talented, imo.
3 posted on 09/01/2010 9:42:52 AM PDT by JPG (How much taxpayer $ did Mookie blow today?)
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To: bill1952

See here :

http://www.businessinsider.com/katie-couric-blames-cbs-for-crappy-ratings-2010-8

TITLE : Katie Couric Blames CBS For Crappy Ratings


4 posted on 09/01/2010 9:43:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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5 posted on 09/01/2010 9:43:05 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Molon Labe.)
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To: bill1952

she’s been in there for 4 full years? Seems like 2 years max. Where does the time go?


6 posted on 09/01/2010 9:43:09 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: SeekAndFind
"I'm not worried".....
7 posted on 09/01/2010 9:43:50 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Three months. That’s all I would have given her.

It was obvious after the second week where this was headed.

Couric basically destroyed CBS evening news. I tried watching it to see what was going on that first week. In fact, I recorded it to DVD.

It was comical to see her break into the solid news reports to deliver a touchy-feely segment. It would be a profile on some leftist nonsense or another. Women who don’t really care for watching the news, were supposed to find this appealing. Men couldn’t watch it, and women who didn’t like watching news weren’t going to tune in to watch one segment either.

Nice work Katie. Couldn’t have done better if I had spent the same amount of time trying to discredit CBS News.

Kudos babe...


8 posted on 09/01/2010 9:44:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (UniTea! It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I didn’t watch See-BS News before Katie, I’m not watching it with Katie, and I won’t watch it after Katie.


9 posted on 09/01/2010 9:46:12 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: SeekAndFind

Good riddance to Katie Courva.


10 posted on 09/01/2010 9:46:38 AM PDT by jpl (It's "My Big Fat Deadly Greek Riot", coming soon to a bankrupt socialist state near you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

who is Katie gonna worship, once she is no longer in the limelight?


11 posted on 09/01/2010 9:47:21 AM PDT by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe they could reorganize and try reporting the news. I hear the market is wide open.


12 posted on 09/01/2010 9:48:27 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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So you can be a miserable failure by any objective measure and have a line of “eager suitors” begging you to come fail for them?

and the “media titans” wonder why fewer and fewer people pay any attention to them

Hey SeeBS, I have a great idea! Hire some retread from CNN to replace her. how about campbell brown, she doesn’t have much going.


13 posted on 09/01/2010 9:50:06 AM PDT by gthog61
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To: SeekAndFind

CBS = Couric Bull SH!T


14 posted on 09/01/2010 9:51:16 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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CONSERVATIVE Broadcast System...just imagine the ratings...


15 posted on 09/01/2010 9:51:40 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Two words come to mind...rat and ship.


16 posted on 09/01/2010 9:52:01 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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I firmly believe in karma, what goes around comes around.

I’m getting tired of waiting for Katie’s time to go around.


17 posted on 09/01/2010 9:52:13 AM PDT by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s like the Black Plague...every where the cheer leader goes, people get cut.


18 posted on 09/01/2010 9:52:20 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps her last day she’ll reminisce and show the high point of her time on TV.
Her live TV colonoscopy.


19 posted on 09/01/2010 9:53:09 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: SeekAndFind

No wonder the stock market is up big today. Good news will do this.


20 posted on 09/01/2010 9:53:40 AM PDT by cicero2k
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