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Katie Couric, CBS News, Have "No Plans To Part Company Anytime Soon"

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Job insecurity may be widespread in the media but Katie Couric still has no need to worry, her boss says. Rumors that C...

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10 Reasons Jon Friedman Missed Lara Logan's Point

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

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Jon Friedman disagrees with Lara Logan: American news shows are great, he says! He watches 'em and has no desire to blow his brains out, like Lara Log...

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Lara Logan Pregnant With Joe Burkett's Baby, Couple Will Wed

Huffington Post | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

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Lara Logan is pregnant and will marry the father of her baby, Joe Burkett, the state department contractor whose marriage she was accused of destroyin...

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CBS To Appeal Military Court Ruling On Haditha Interview

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

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A First Amendment case has escalated between CBS News and a military court over a "60 Minutes" report about an attack at Haditha, Iraq. The network i...

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Lorena Bobbit On "The Early Show": 15 Years Later After The Penis (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her ex-husband's penis in retaliation for her alleged rape, now advocates for battered women and has a new family. Julie C...

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CBS's Lara Logan Slams American Coverage Of Iraq War (VIDEO)

The Daily Show | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

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On last night's Daily Show, Lara Logan, CBS's Chief Foreign Correspondent, spoke out against the coverage of the Iraq War by the American press. At a...

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The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate Plunder

Paige Donner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

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Paige Donner

(No, this is NOT an Indiana Jones Sequel) Yes, you read that correctly. American taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for...

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Bob Schieffer, CBS News Sign New Long-Term Contract

Huffington Post via CBS News | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media

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It looks like Bob Schieffer will be at CBS News for a long time yet. While the anchor had previously said he would hang up his hat after the president...

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Obamania Down the Drain

Andrew Tyndall | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

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Andrew Tyndall

Obama received all the coverage benefits in January and February, when Hillary was the frontrunner and he was the obvious challenger. In April he suffered the downside in spades.

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Can Bob Schieffer Save CBS News (Again)?

MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

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A few years ago, CBS was desperate to find a replacement for Dan Rather, who was forced out after the network publicly apologized for a disastrous seg...

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The Media Must Report - NOT Debate - Whether Barack or Hillary is Winning

Steven G. Brant | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

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Steven G. Brant

The mainstream media shows its stupidity by treating Hillary's attempt to redefine the reality of the election results like it's a real story.

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Debate Backlash: ABC Feels It In The Ratings

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

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The ratings for last week's evening newscasts are in — and it appears that the angry viewers claiming that they would no longer watch ABC after ...

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Jason Linkins

In a Final Analysis: For ABC, A Missed Opportunity

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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Strangely enough, ABC's failures have created an interesting opportunity for the news division that needs a game-changer the most: CBS News.

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Roger Mudd's Revenge

Al Eisele | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

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Al Eisele

Former CBS newsman Roger Mudd has written his memoir, and it's not likely to endear him to his former colleagues.

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Les Moonves Gives CBS Newsroom A Pep Talk: Katie's Not Going Anywhere

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

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%meta(topic:01016000;ap_topic:general entertainment;subtopic:tv;%) NEW YORK (AP) _ CBS Corp. Chairman Leslie Moonves paid a surprise visit to the CBS...

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Dan Rather On Les Moonves, The "Evening News," And Who Should Replace Katie When (Not If) She Goes

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media

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Yesterday, I spoke to former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather about the recent travails of the current anchor of that program, namely Katie Couric...

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It's Show Time At CBS

Charles Warner | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media

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Charles Warner

Les Moonves should eliminate CBS News -- close all bureaus, terminate all personnel, and sell all news equipment and assets.

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Playing the Musical Anchor Chair Game

Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media

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Marvin Kitman

One thing you can be sure of, given their past record, with Admiral Moonves at the helm, CBS will be making the wrong decision about Couric's replacement as they smack right into the iceberg.

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CBS May Eliminate "Evening News" Anchor If Couric Leaves: Report

Huffington Post via TMZ | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

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According to TMZ, Katie Couric will leave CBS on her own terms and the network will likely eliminate the "Evening News" anchor altogether. Further, T...

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Goodbye to the Eye? Why This Couric Flap May Be The Beginning of the End For CBS News

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

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We know that CBS News is a distant third in the ratings, we know that newsgathering is expensive -- and we know that Katie Couric is, too. All of this suggests why, amidst the mutterings about how the evening news is doomed, CBS will clearly be the first to go.

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Who Killed Katie Couric?

Henry Blodget | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

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Henry Blodget

Don't think for one second that the person who leaked the news of the meeting didn't know that that was exactly what he or she was doing.

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Katie Couric: The Anachronistic Anchor

Andrew Tyndall | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media

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Andrew Tyndall

CBS News never needed an anchor to increase its audience; instead it needed an aggressive online strategy. The last type of anchor it needed was an expensive celebrity.

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Katie Couric Likely To Leave CBS, Says Report; CBS Denies

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.09.2008 | Media

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The Wall Street Journal's Rebecca Dana reports that Katie Couric is likely to leave CBS well before her contract expires in 2011: After two years of ...

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Anchor Purge As CBS News Unloads Staff Across The Country

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 04.01.2008 | Media

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LOS ANGELES — CBS-owned TV stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago are reducing their news staffs. The cuts include two well-known an...

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Struggling CBS Looking For Help From Democratic Debate

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media

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It is an axiom of political debates that lagging competitors always want them more than front-runners. CBS News, which lags well behind its competitor...

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