CBS bet its future — and a ton of money — on Katie Couric, who became NBC Today Show’s mega star due to her TV presence, excellent features and (yes) tough interviews. But mostly because Couric was young, a break from the stodgy old TV newscast mold — and was highly popular.
Now it’s clear Couric has tanked in the network newscast ratings, CBS is in third place and unless there is some dramatic resampling by the audience, she hasn’t caught and — is unlikely to catch — on. Instead, longtime ABC News veteran Charles Gibson is Number One?
Why? Mark Daniels has a theory HERE.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.