Couric's Ratings Woes

American Voices • Entertainment • gender • women • celebrities • tv • news media • ISSUE 43•21 • May 21, 2007

Eight months after Katie Couric took over as anchor, The CBS Evening News is a distant third in the nightly news ratings, and last week recorded its lowest audience in 20 years. What do you think?

“This is why you should never hire a woman, or anyone even remotely sane, to do Dan Rather's job.”
Emil Brun –
Day Laborer
“How can she compete against cable news? They get to use the C-word.”
Mila Kreszpy –
Recordkeeper
“I warned her. I said 'It's not like Today, Katie. You've got to know how to read,' but she wouldn't listen.”
Matt Gander –
Systems Analyst

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