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Couric, CBS Not Seeing “Eye” to Eye

by Todd Epp

The Wall Street Journal reports that CBS news “anchor” Katie Couric could be bye-bye from the Eye as early as President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009.

CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the “CBS Evening News” anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 — possibly soon after the presidential inauguration early next year. Ms. Couric isn’t even halfway through her five-year contract with CBS, which began in June 2006 and pays an annual salary of around $15 million.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120778369100203247.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

I knew this would happen the day they hired her. She lacked and lacks the skills and abilities to be a convincing journalist, let alone what once was the nightly TV news program of record.

Her fluffy approach on the Today show and cutesy-pie perkiness worked at 7 a.m. but not at 6 p.m. on an actual news program.

God only know what her next gig might be. Perhaps she can host a kids show or be a host selling cosmetics on the Home Shopping Network. You know, something more to her ability level.

If I were a CBS suit, I’d pull the plug on her now, bring back Bob Schieffer, and start looking to poach someone decent from MSNBC or CNN who has actually reported on real news prior to being plunked down as a news reader in Uncle Walter’s hallowed seat.

Photo: Come January 2009, news personality Katie Couric may have a lot more time to work on her bowling game. Katie Couric, Katie Couric & Friends Bowl to “Strike Out Colon Cancer�? for EIF’s NCCRA, May 9, 2007.

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