There's nothin' more I kin do, Cap'n, she's retaining water and sinking fast.
Posted on 03/08/2007 1:37:23 PM PST by Mr. K
NEW YORK -- CBS News on Thursday fired the executive producer of Katie Couric's struggling "CBS Evening News" broadcast and appointed former CNN and MSNBC president Rick Kaplan to the job.
Kaplan replaces Rome Hartman, who had position since before Couric began at CBS last September, said Sean McManus, CBS News president.
The newscast has been a distant third in the ratings behind ABC and NBC. During last month's pivotal ratings "sweeps" period, Couric's average of 7.6 million viewers was 6 percent down from what Bob Schieffer recorded in February 2006.
More troubling to many who watched it was the newscast's apparent confusion in direction, driving viewers away from an anchor given a multi-million dollar commitment to jump from NBC's "Today" show.
CBS' shift comes less than a week after NBC News announced that the executive producer of "Nightly News," John Reiss, was leaving. Longtime ratings leader NBC and anchor Brian Williams have been sliding in the ratings as ABC's "World News" with Charles Gibson has won for three of the past four weeks.
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You beat me to it.
If he's the one who hired her in the first place he needs to be fired.
They fired the wrong person. I guess they'll get around to it eventually though.
When you can't fire your "star" quarterback because of his contract, you fire the coach instead.
MSM recycling washed up white quys. Jessie, where art thou?
Circlin' the bowl.
There's nothin' more I kin do, Cap'n, she's retaining water and sinking fast.
Yesterday I read a media industry newsline blog that said he wasn't fired
but transferred to another area of CBS.
Catch a clue, CBS -- It's Katie Couric who has to go! She's a left wing partisan liar, and just about everybody knows it! lol
CBS should stop fighting the inevitable, fire Couric, and replace her with Howard Dean. Then their air-headed viewers could get the daily Democrat talking points uncamouflaged as "news."
-she WAS NOT a good choice from the git-go. Changing producers is like using a pail to bail water from the titanic......
The producer is gone but McManus and Couric live to stink up the news yet another day.
Was he the guy in charge of rearranging the deck chairs?
Who in heaven's name watches CBS "News"?
Why subject yourself to made up fabrications and forgery?
When you have a faulty product you have to fire someone.
Anybody remember Elizabeth Kaledin, the Health and Science correspondent on CBS? She was caught up in the Katie mass firings and did not have her contract renewed. An able correspondent, she is now an anchor at NY1.....and a nice person. I hope CBS realized the error of its ways.
Because he did such a good job for those companies.
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