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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 ...
Got enough meds that you can share with the rest of us?
LOLOL.....you stole my thoughts exactly. Howdy Doody it is.
Think about. Rush at CBS would stand the news world on it's ear. CBS would have the largest nightly audience in the history of TV news.
I s'pose they would out fox the others.
Kermit the Frog, Sesame Street News, here...
Who cares! I'll watch Rather's replacement as often as I watched Rather, ZERO!
Jayson Blair. Young, black, steeped in the CBS tradition.
Good one! Then no one has to watch the Blo twisting in every wind.
At least you'll be getting news from a person with a little more credibility than Dan Rather!
Jeff Gannon. If we're gonna dream, let's dream big.
This is a golden opportunity to review the value of having the business unit at all. It might be most beneficial to the business to shutter the entire CBS News operation.
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