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By encinoman
The MSM keeps clucking about Katie Couric&;s (and that of CBS News) failure to win the evening news ratings race. In fact, America&;s sweetheart is mired in third place.
Linda Mason, CBS News senior VP of standards and special projects, said on CBS&; Public Eye site that the public &;seems to prefer the news from white guys, and now that Charlie&;s (Gibson&;s) doing so well, from older white guys. I guess they want the reassurance of a Walter Cronkite.&;
In February, I attended a lecture where Anderson Cooper of CNN interviewed Walter Cronkite, who, yes, is still alive and still pretty lucid. While it is reassuring to have someone like Cronkite (who doesn&;t know who Paris Hilton is) deliver the news, it&;s Cronkite&;s experience jumping out of planes in Normandy and Cooper&;s street reporting in New Orleans that give them gravitas and credibility, not their white hair and male chromosome set.
Couric&;s brand of perky doesn&;t play. I&;m not sure who the major networks are fighting over on the national news; I can&;t remember the last time I made &;an appointment&; to watch it. Is it still on at 6:30PM?
This entry was posted on May 14, 2007 at 5:33 pm and is filed under Anderson-Cooper, CBS, CBS-NEWS, CNN, Journalism, Katie-Couric, Television, Walter-Cronkite.
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