[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Katie Couric Hits New Low

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Katie Couric Hits New Low
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1244765814.shtml


   What's wrong with us? Why won't we watch the CBS Evening News with
   Katie Couric? From [1]TVNewser:

     NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams was the #1 evening newscast
     again last week with a more than 800,000 viewer lead over #2 World
     News with Charles Gibson. And with an average of 5.18M Total
     Viewers, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric had its lowest
     viewership yet. In fact, it's the lowest viewership since at least
     the 1991/92 season, as far back as Nielsen records track.

   Ms. Couric might reflect on Contessa Brewer's recent flap with
   filmmaker John Ziegler. "I consider myself a common sense thinker,"
   she said, cutting Ziegler's mike. But the damage had been done. Brewer
   looked more like a fool than a thinker, pouting that she had been
   insulted. She was in that Ziegler used her own words to easily trap
   her in a contradiction her common sense could not explain. She did the
   insulting, indirectly of herself, directly at those of us who truly
   are common sense thinkers.
   Couric should look at this and ask whose common sense she is
   insulting. Her competitors have no special edge, but it has to be her
   because she is also losing to everyone since 1992, including on CBS.
   CBS should consider putting someone like Ziegler in her chair.

References

   1. http://tinyurl.com/klw979