Posted on 09/23/2004 12:44:08 PM PDT by LouAvul
And on the bright side for you beleaguered suits at CBS News: Connie Chung is available! Just give her a call when you're ready to beg her back to the anchoring desk she shared with Dan Rather before you unceremoniously dumped her.
Because, eventually, Rather will sign off for good as the face of CBS News.
Maybe not willingly. But it's going to happen - and perhaps sooner rather than later, now that this "Memogate" madness has left the ornery Texan hemorrhaging credibility as a chorus of critics calls for his exit.
And then what?
What's the succession plan, Kenneth?
Oh, right: There isn't one - at least not on record.
CBS has never publicly discussed what it's going to do once the man who cried on Letterman and butted heads with Nixon and the elder Bush gives up his gig.
Not seven years ago, when Rather turned 65 - the very age Walter Cronkite was when, in a fit of management idiocy, CBS forced Uncle Walter to retire.
Not in 2000, when NBC News announced Brian Williams as the heir to Tom Brokaw's throne. (Williams will ascend to the main anchor chair after the November election.)
Not even when the audience was made up of TV execs with a vested interest in the performance of the flagship CBS news show that's long lagged in last place among the big three networks.
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Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, has another candidate in mind.
"I'm thinking their best bet would be William Petersen, star of the hit series 'CSI,' " Thompson says. "They never screw up the evidence on that show the way CBS News did on this."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacticket.com ...
Howdy Doody,...
...When he gets tired of "NightLine".
Maybe they'll bring back Zenker...
Courage!
Does anyone seriously care?
Since CBS is known for its clowns, how about albore?
kerry (teehee) , he will need a job.
Maybe Walter Concrete is ready for a comeback...
My suggestion is "no one." Just shut down the news division, and go with sports and prime time entertainment. They obviously don't understand the concept of news reporting.
I bet anything Brit Hume's phone is ringing right now.
"Media Savvy: Who will succeed Rather?"
It doesn't matter, no one will be tuned in.
>> "Who will succeed Rather?"
> Does anyone seriously care?
It could be a way for Fox to rid itself of O'Reilly.
I take that back! If they can sign Baghdad Bob, I'll tune in for sure!
Michael Savage was suggesting that Bill O'Reilly would take his place (or at is trying to)... but then again... michael savage is kind of a kook.
Pat Paulson for anchor!!!
I hear Bill Burkett is out of work and available.
Rush might be available.
"Maybe Walter Concrete is ready for a comeback..."
He's old enough to be Helen Thomas' younger brother! Plus he's mad as pants.
Rush Limbaugh will have Rather's seat within three months.
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