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| Bad Day at Black Rock |
| 2010-09-01 |
| With a new round of layoffs expected this fall, CBS News is being trimmed to the bone. Rebecca Dana on the dramatic drop in ratings, strange BlackBerry blackouts, and eager suitors for anchor Katie Couric. On Monday, Katie Couric begins her fifth, and quite possibly final, year of hard labor as anchor of the CBS Evening News. However she chooses to mark the occasion, it will no doubt be more subdued than the tears, dancing, and $10 million promotional campaign that attended her debut on Sept. 5, 2006. The person who handled ordering business cards vanished, and staffers havenÂ’t been able to get them since. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #16 Too true P2k, evidenced by our current predicament with the TOTUS and POTUS conjoined, and the fact morons can and do hold positions in the public eye in the first place... |
| Posted by: Entertaining Prose 2010-09-01 22:47 |
| #15 Barbara got it right. However, please don't confuse news 'readers' with 'reporters'. Time and experience doesn't matter for those who functionally are just readers, whether it be teleprompters or talking points. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-09-01 22:44 |
| #14 The list of newscasters on the cosmetic surgery list of offenders is HUGE. Botox. Face-lifts. Reconstructive Surgery. You only think they're young. |
| Posted by: Entertaining Prose 2010-09-01 22:34 |
| #13 mine (#3) was actually not totally sarcasm. Perky Katie has a track record - Google it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-09-01 22:24 |
| #12 "Is that meant to be sarcasm? Because, I, for one, like older news reporters and anchors of male or female persausion delivering the news." I thought P2k was referring to Couric. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-09-01 22:23 |
| #11 Is that meant to be sarcasm? Because, I, for one, like older news reporters and anchors of male or female persausion delivering the news. They have some gravitas. Young, bubbly news women with hair extensions and sleeveless booby tops don't top my list of sagely reporters. But then, maybe my irritation is the fact that I'm female, and guys (I assume P2k is male and not gay) like P2k are apparently doing the hiring nowadays. |
| Posted by: Entertaining Prose 2010-09-01 22:04 |
| #10 Hint to any rational CBS management that wants a clue. Subcontract out the work to bilinguals at Univision. The Big U is already pulling more viewers in local markets than CBS. You'll get a cross over market, you'll cut the cost of all the dead wood at Black Rock, you'll get coverage of a major war happening just across your southern border. Couldn't be any worse than your game now. Oh, and the female broadcast personnel are general several levels above your team when it comes to being easy on the eyes without using a search light to glare out the tired wrinkles. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-09-01 20:59 |
| #9 "The person who handled ordering business cards vanished, and staffers haven't been able to get them since." Oh, fercryin'outloud. Trained helplessness; it's obvious they're all lefties. If business cards are really important to your job, get 'em yourself. If you just want cards because they I manage to get my own business cards somehow. Lazy useless idiots. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-09-01 20:29 |
| #8 See BS. That's how they will always be remembered. Adios. |
| Posted by: Martini 2010-09-01 20:02 |
| #7 Wow! The straight razors are out and slicing-n-dicing tonight. I'm awed. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2010-09-01 19:59 |
| #6 I don't know it has been working for Wolf Biltzer for years. |
| Posted by: Neville Unomp8683 2010-09-01 19:41 |
| #5 I love that movie! |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-09-01 19:17 |
| #4 Brutal, Frank! |
| Posted by: abu Chuck al Ameriki 2010-09-01 19:12 |
| #3 she's gonna have a hard time sleeping her way to another job at this age |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-09-01 18:41 |
| #2 Don't worry, Perky One. I hear Fox is hiring... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-09-01 18:14 |
| #1 These are tough times for everyone,” Couric said in a statement provided through her spokesman, “but I for one am proud to be working with so many talented, dedicated people who continue to work hard to maintain the highest journalistic standards that have always been associated with CBS News.” I thought their slogan was: "We don need no steenking journalistic standards!" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-09-01 18:09 |