CBS Wants Katie Couric To Take A Pay Cut

[MattParker]

I'm shocked, shocked that even more stations haven't bailed out on the morning show.

I think a few have. Just a few weeks ago, they replaced the air team. But the benefits of doing it still outweigh the negatives of dropping it.

What negatives?

 

[TheBigA]

What negatives?

As I said earlier in the thread, giving back 10 hours of inventory to the local stations.

 

[listener-in]

All they do is (perhaps) fatten the broadcasters' bottom line at the expense of the public interest.

And this is a surprise to you?

Regrettably, no.

 

[MattParker]

What negatives?

As I said earlier in the thread, giving back 10 hours of inventory to the local stations.

That's a negative for the network. Not the station.

 

[listener-in]

Here's an interesting take on news media stardom and coverage of Egypt from the Globe and Mail. It seems the stars' attention span is flagging.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...etworks-are-leaving-heres-why/article1901017/

 

[TheBigA]

I think that's a fair assessment. American audience attention spans are short too. This has been a two-week crisis, and that's way too long. We're done with it, even though it's still in flux. So you send in the second string to handle the clean-up reporting. The first string has the Grammy Awards to focus on. There's always another story.

 

[wncc]

I think that's a fair assessment. American audience attention spans are short too. This has been a two-week crisis, and that's way too long. We're done with it, even though it's still in flux. So you send in the second string to handle the clean-up reporting. The first string has the Grammy Awards to focus on. There's always another story.

I wish that was a joke.

 

[johnnya2k6]

Create a half hour, uh, 60 minutes program, and run it in the slot that CBS evening news now runs in. Problem solved.

Right...call it "30 Minutes."

It's already been done; there was a children's spinoff called "30 Minutes" that ran Saturday mornings on CBS in the late '70s-early '80s

 

[listener-in]

I think that's a fair assessment. American audience attention spans are short too. This has been a two-week crisis, and that's way too long. We're done with it, even though it's still in flux. So you send in the second string to handle the clean-up reporting. The first string has the Grammy Awards to focus on. There's always another story.

If we (and the people of Egypt) are lucky, it's done with us. If not, the "clean-up reporting" will be around for a few years or decades, and right now it doesn't look good. Not that it will affect the near future of Egypt whether it's reported by stars or grunts, but a return to the kind of reporting that wears out shoe-leather (such as was absent when we were being softened-up for the Iraq invasion) would help Americans and their leaders deal with things better. A few minutes per night of Katie Couric, Brian Williams or Diane Sawyer putting on their grave expressions just doesn't cut it.

 

[vchimpanzee]

BBB: Bring Back Bob.

Schieffer? Absolutely.

A few years ago I might have agreed, but Bob really struggles on Face The Nation. He seems lost and confused at least a couple times each week. Overall, he does OK, but there are always a few moments when you can see he loses his train of thought. He's had a great, long, storied career. CBS needs to find some decent 30-something and 40-something talent to be its future.

Okay, I was thinking of Bob the way he was. But at his age, maybe he's not right for the job.

I always felt it was time for Dan to retire too. I never perceived that he was fired for doing something wrong.

 

[KyDXIn]

BBB: Bring Back Bob.

Schieffer? Absolutely.

Okay, I was thinking of Bob the way he was. But at his age, maybe he's not right for the job.

I always felt it was time for Dan to retire too. I never perceived that he was fired for doing something wrong.

Here is a new interview with Dan where he says he was fired because of the Bush interview (near the 13:00 mark).
Click on Dan's face.

http://www.whas.com/pages/terrymeiners.html

 

[vchimpanzee]

BBB: Bring Back Bob.

Schieffer? Absolutely.

Okay, I was thinking of Bob the way he was. But at his age, maybe he's not right for the job.

I always felt it was time for Dan to retire too. I never perceived that he was fired for doing something wrong.

Here is a new interview with Dan where he says he was fired because of the Bush interview (near the 13:00 mark).
Click on Dan's face.

http://www.whas.com/pages/terrymeiners.html

Yes, when everyone's telling you it was because of that, it's hard to deny it.

 

[Silkie]

When she reports on a football who committed suicide but did it so that he could give his brain to science, she deserves worse than a pay cut. As if the guy was careful to preserve his brain for science when he killed himsel. If she's so enamored with the idea....

 

[DToTheJ]

Actually, Silk, the football player (ex-Bear Dave Duerson) sent text messages to loved ones pleading that his brain be donated to research upon his death - which would happen moments after he hit "send," I'm guessing.