More Katie Couric Leaving ‘CBS Evening News’ Chatter

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• “After anchoring CBS Evening News tonight, Couric is going on assignment out of the country for the next few days.”

  So CBS can start their audition/tryout phase with guest anchors…..

  Comment by Lytton Strachey — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 11:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• So, I’m guessing that anchor spot just wasn’t perfect…

  Dear god keep her away from Sunday Morning. That is just not the presence I want on my ease into Sunday viewing. Her occasional appearances on 60 Minutes are bad enough. Let her take over the Talk or start her syndicated crash and burn talk show. Just keep her far far away from anything I’m likely to spend much time on. Best Idea Yet – let her go take over Catch a Predator on Dateline.

  Comment by Pat — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 11:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• What a joke she never should have been given the anchor chair in the first place. Way to go Les Moonves you wasted how much money on Katie? You paid her fifteen million a year for five years right? Money that could have gone to pay actual reporters and producers and editors with real news experience. Hiring Katie “little miss perky in the morning” Couric to anchor the CBS Evening News will go down in history as the stupidest and most disgraceful decision ever made by a network executive. You should have given her the CBS Morning Show she would have made it number one it would have been much more profitable she would have crushed both Today and GMA but instead you put her where she didn’t belong in a job she was never qualified to do or had the gravitas to do.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 11:44am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Either hiring Chatty Kathy Couric or agreeing that Dan Rather could take over for Walter Cronkite. I think both were really stupid movies.

    I have not watched the CBS Evening News until Rather pushed out Cronkite.

    Boy did I feel vindicated when Rather was unceremoniously FIRED.

    Comment by Karen — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 1:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Sorry you feel that way Mr. Anonymous about Miss Couric. She is as well trained and smart as anybody in the news media. Sorry you take her clean look as Miss Perky. You are thinking about the wrong Katy. Try Miss K. Morgan who is very proud to be known as Miss Perky and Punctual. EMM

    Comment by Emily Smith — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 1:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• They have been stuck in third place ever since they overpaid for her. She was a complete waste of money. They were getting better ratings with Bob Schieffer as their interim anchor. Their best bet now is Anderson Cooper my money is they give the job to him.

  Comment by Cronkite's Ghost — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 3:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Call me sexist but I don’t want my network news, especially in times of crisis, from a woman. Sorry, that’s just how I roll. Give me a voice of God like Brian Williams.

  That said I *do* love Katie and think she’s UNCANNILY super-cute at over 50! I even follow her on Twitter! But all that doesn’t equal gravitas. Plus there’s a big gaping hole in the afternoon with the departure of Oprah, Katie’s smart to get in on the gold rush.

  The girl-power experiment is over, CBS, time to put Bob Schieffer back in the big chair where he belongs.

  PS @ Cronkite’s Ghost, Anderson to me is as vapid as they come. I know he’s the grown-up, real-life Jonny Quest and all but still. He’s fine on CNN.

  Comment by casting couch — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 4:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Diane Sawyer is good she’s suited for the evening news. Couric has always been too fluffy that’s her natural personality she’s bouncy and happy and silly much too silly as her extracurricular videos prove. Anderson Cooper is the glamour boy but Scott Pelley is really who should get the job he’s a serious reporter and they should have given it to him five years ago but they wanted Katie for the ratings they thought she’d bring them. Give it to Pelley he’ll do a good job nothing flashy but that’s ok he’s all substance.

    Comment by Anonymous — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 7:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • You’re sexist. If the networks hired someone substantial like Christiane Amanpour as anchor and focused more on international stories and real news and less on fluff, we’d all be better off. Brian Williams as the voice of God, please. What is with that affected speech pattern of his?

    Whenever there’s a big breaking crisis somewhere the first reporters are the ones who work in that area, and their reports are much better than those of the anchors who parachute in later. The networks should hire more of those on-the-ground reporters, maybe even open some foreign bureaus which they used to have before they started paying those network stars ungodly amounts of money. And maybe they could hire some real business reporters who can report on economic disasters in the making rather than after the fact. With newspapers on the wane TV news is more important, TV networks have a responsibility to do some actual journalism for a change.

    Comment by vf — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 7:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • LOL I *did* say “call me sexist.” And I do like Amanpour, she’s got more gravitas than Katie. And one person’s “affected speech pattern” is another person’s classic Ted Baxter-style delivery

      Comment by casting couch — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 10:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • The “girl-power experiment” ended with weathergirls in the 50s. Nobody but you notices the sex of reporters these days. Sorry pal, but you’re just going to have to get used to both sexes reporting serious news. As they have been doing for the past 50 years.

    Comment by Screenwriter — Tuesday April 5, 2011 @ 12:08am PDT  Reply to this post

• Mark my words: Katie Couric will be back on “The Today Show” by September, and Meredith Vieira will be out!

  Comment by Joseph — Monday April 4, 2011 @ 5:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Couric hire marginalized the CBS news division and drained its funds. (With Couric’s salary the network could have hired literally 100 actual journalists to report news for viewers.)

  Perhaps having nothing better to do, for the last three years Moonves and CBS have just doubled down on Couric, draining the news operation of tens of millions of dollars and watching the outfit’s wounded reputation fester.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday April 5, 2011 @ 12:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• I wept.

  Comment by Edward R. Murrow — Tuesday April 5, 2011 @ 8:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Overpaid brainless lib who would rather toot Obama’s horn than report what’s really going on in the world.

  Comment by babs — Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 2:45pm PDT  Reply to this post