Posted on 03/25/2011 2:32:00 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
The CBS Evening News anchor is very likely to leave in June and Scott Pelley is a top contender to replace her but CBS is looking both within and outside the network, Howard Kurtz reports.
The search is on for Katie Couric’s successor.
The new CBS News chairman, Jeff Fager, is looking at candidates both within and outside the network, insiders say.
One strong contender if Couric vacates the anchor chair in early June, as now seems almost certain, is veteran newsman Scott Pelley. The 60 Minutes correspondent has long been a favorite of Fager, who doubles as the show’s executive producer. But with Fager taking a methodical approach to his first major decision, Pelley is not a lock. A few short weeks ago, the expectation in the Couric camp—after discussions with top CBS management—was that she would sign a new deal to stay in the anchor’s job through the 2012 elections as she figured out the next phase of her career. But the thinking on both sides has now changed as Couric has aggressively tested the waters—and found substantial interest in her services.
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So everyone there pretends it has nothing to do with ratings? I guess the Leftists in Charge only care about the “future” career opportunities of famous liberal women employees with no real discernably special talents.
Like a good liberal Kurtz writes an entire series of articles on this and never mentions the reason shes out on her keester..RATINGS!! PROFITS!!....and scott pelley is not going to help.
Ugh, Pelley is totally odious.
He’s a wimpy noodle, but at least the aging numbskull cheerleader is gone. God, I couldnt stand to look at her.
Put me down for Keef Olberman - $1.00
It won’t help...CBS loses viewers every time they carry a body bag out of a nursing home, and those viewers won’t be replaced.
Guess she’s being offered the golden parachute.
Whatever shall we do without her one-sided and totally biased interviews? I’m sure gonna miss her nasty glare at “subjects” she doesn’t agree with politically.
I'd like to see her do some really independent investigative journalism, if she's even capable of it, by exploring what the damned 'daytime unemployment office lines' are like and how 'supportive' they can be for 'perky'.
This overaged 'cougar-when-drunk' skank should shrivel away with the millions she should have already saved. She is responsible for some of the worst ills that have befallen this country by 'managing' the news to fit her screwed up beliefs.
maybe in her new free time she can sit around and enjoy all those “newspapers” she was so concerned about Sarah Palin reading....
“The new CBS News chairman, Jeff Fager, is looking at candidates both within and outside the network, insiders say. “
Give me Monica Crowley.
Maybe Couric is converting to mussie and starting her own comedy show.
In Iran, I hope.
Same to you Katie.
Scumbag.
Just curious, Are you calling me a scumbag or Katie ?
Katie of course.
Sorry for any mistake, I thought it was clear
Showing off her anal probe again, I see.
What class.
The dried-up, has been bitch can go and get a real job.
I bet she goes to “The View” for $1.
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