[TBP]

So how is this different form what Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, and Schieffer have been doing?

[Thebaddog]

I think that Cronkite was the biggest liar of them all when he was selling the news. Did you hear him calling for the pullout from Iraq like he was trying to live the glory again for screwing us in Viet Nam.

Whadda loon.

[jeremiah]

My exact thoughts. Notice how interchangeable the networks are now? They are provably the same company, with different franchises.

[kjo]

Remember Dan and Connie Chung? That was going to be the partnership that would rewrite tv news history. How long did that last? Was it even a year?

[DoughtyOne]

I could tell you, but I'd have to shoot you. LOL

You're right of course. The only difference is that they are convinced cutsie Katie can pack them in via her charms.

Charms don't sell when you're delivering the news. She'll have nobody like Matt to reinforce her attempts at humor or the validity of her claims.

I give this about a month before it becomes painfully clear that CBS has finally found the black hole of network news, sucking it's very existance into it, hopefully Katie included.

Ah, she'll aways be able to start a hack sports talk show on cable, that nobody will watch.

[freedumb2003]

So how is this different form what Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, and Schieffer have been doing?

They weren't artificially "perky."