Wouldn't it be refreshing to see CBS take a real centrist stand and report the news without all of the slant. I would bet the ratings would climb.

one word:     gravitas

another:    integrity

final answer:    unbiased

going 0 for 3

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.   

What good news for a change!

Great picture to top it off.

Says it all.

Next up...

Rosie!

Would you spend a dollar to buy a newspaper that switched to running their op-ed page on page one then ads for the rest of the paper? Of course not. When the three network's Nightly News became more and more op-ed and less and less news coverage, their viewership dropped at the same rate. They now
just "preach to the choir" and to each other. And act as if they still matter. They could all show a test pattern during their time slots and only MoveOn.org and DailyKOS would notice.

View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c to FINALLY understand why liberals think the way they do. This was the most informative 47 minutes I've ever spent. Please -- take the time to view it.

Maybe she should trying wearing suspenders, or growing a mustache...

What do they expect? Couric should be on a cooking show, a home & garden show, maybe even a sports show. However, the EVENING NEWS??? Geez, you just don't think of "The News" when you look at Couric. Whether liberals or not, when you think of "news" you think of Jennings, Brokaw, Cronkite, etc. Couric is nothing more than a "white" version of Oprah with less money. They had no business giving her that position. She sucks and they know it! But they wanted to play the "politally correct" role of giving the position to a woman. The problem is that they COULD have found a better woman instead of this bubble-gum chewing nightmare named Couric. Even her name sucks. "Katie"???? Sounds like some bimbo you meet on the tennis court in college.

I only watched once. The night rush was on. If they have him on again then I’ll watch again.

"Here's the lesson of the past three years: The UN kills." - Mark Steyn

Couric’s primary problem is that she is unable to strike a GQ pose as her male counterparts do when delivering the news. Apparently, showing the anchor in ¾ profile is supposed to make them more credible. Lou Dobbs does it best as he fills ¾ of the TV screen with his face.

Joking aside, network news has suffered to the point of being irrelevant as the suits make vane attempts the rearrange the deck chairs on their sinking networks, and refuse to understand the writing on the wall.

The media can't seem to realise that the reason their ratings drop is because people don't like them. It's funny because their answer to this will probably be to amp up the parts of their product people dislike most.

To misquote Howard Cosell: "Down goes Couric! Down goes Couric!" Hee hee haaaa haaaa BAAWAAHHAAAAA. Sorry, but this is better than caffeine in the morning to make my day bright and sunny! THANK YOU NEWSBUSTERS!! (general snickering and laughing continues)

"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

- President George W Bush September 2001 speech to a joint session of Congress.

IMO CBS started to lose it's audience when it became clear that Dan Rather and Co. used an obvious forgery in order to try an affect the election outcome. What really started to turn people off, was their justification of the story, even after it was acknowledged that the initial document was a forgery. In effect they were saying that we know the story is bogus, but we agree with the premis and want it to be true.

People started leaving then. They had the opportunity to show that they were changing course and attempting to gain back the viewers trust with the anchor that they chose. Instead, they went with Katie which basically showed SOP and more of the same.

There is little that CBS can do except radically overhaul their "news" division or wait out the American short attention span and hope that the viewers return eventually.