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CBS says the voice of Walter Cronkite will continue to be heard announcing the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."
Stack a quarter for every obituary written about the network evening newscasts and soon there would be enough to pay Katie Couric's salary at CBS.
Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009Cronkite, who died Friday night at 92, was unique in a now-bygone era of television news. Today's multi-media generation will find it impossible to understand the commanding authority with which he spoke and the absolute trust he engendered among his viewers.
During much of my childhood, it seemed that the evening network news on television was 30 minutes of coverage of the Vietnam War. Actually several other subjects, commercials, etc., were included in those 30 minute broadcasts.
CBS Legend Walter Cronkite DiesWalter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died Friday night in his New York home following a long illness, surrounded by family. He was 92.
OKay, I might agree that to an outsider, that when a local Phoenix station breaks in with a Special Report because it is summer and it is raining, it would seem silly. Actually, that is one of the better uses of Breaking News, here in our valley of the sun.
With only days left to the final showdown between John McCain and Barack Obama it looks like the Dem's have taken to the lowest common denominator in their hunt for dirt on Sarah Palin. Its only politics as usual but it makes being impartial very hard.
Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back BurnerGetting a story on the evening news isn't easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network.
Katie Couric may leave CBS News, Replace Larry KingThe Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric, said Wednesday she could leave her job as anchor of the low-rated CBS Evening News well before her contract expires in 2011.
Dan Rather was so hot to run the false Bush/National Guard documents story he threatened to leak them to the NY TimesFormer CBSNEWS anchor Dan Rather pressured CBS to air the failed Bush/National Guard story in September 2004, Howard Kurtz reports in his new blockbuster book: REALITY SHOW: INSIDE THE LAST GREAT TELEVISION NEWS RACE.
Mapes: Couric Looks Like She's Been Drugged, Kidnapped, Making Hostage Tapewith video clip.
No apologies, Katie Couric! As the ratings for her evening news broadcast continue to drop, why is Couric trading her controlled public persona for embarrassed confessions?
Couric admits she slapped CBS editorKatie Couric doesn't like "sputum." When a CBS Evening News editor inserted that word into the anchor's script, several anonymous sources tell New York magazine that Couric slapped his arm "over and over and over again."
A paper that - for one day only - will publish only good newsI can hardly wait... next Thursday is going to be "good news day." Well, it will be in Edinburgh. The city's Evening News has decided that its Thursday issue will contain only happy stories.
Rather Blasts Couric As already noted on NewsBusters, former CBS anchor Dan Rather appeared on Monday's edition of "Morning Joe" and lobbied for a "a strategic withdrawal from Iraq." He also found time to twice bash his "Evening News" successor Katie Couric for dumbing down and "tarting up" the ne …
Katie Couric: Worst Ratings Week EverNielsen isn't loving Katie Couric, whose ratings have consistently fallen in the five weeks she's been on the air as anchor of the CBS Evening News.
Couric starts 2nd week in 3rd placeKatie Couric's "Evening News" fell to third place Monday night, just six nights after she stormed into first in her debut week at CBS.
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