Couric Fails at CBS, But Liberals Defend Her ‘Gravitas’ With…Palin-Bashing Interview
In surveying the wreckage of the Katie Couric experiment at CBS – $75 million flushed away for a distant third-place finish each week – the liberal journalists are blaming elderly viewers for not accepting Sunny Katie. Here’s James Rainey in the Los Angeles Times: A change-averse viewership doubtless greeted the initial formatting changes for Couric's “Evening News” as confirmation that “America's Sweetheart,” straight from her sunny a.m. perch, didn't have the gravitas for the job. Actually, those impressions had little to do with the newscast that emerged over Couric's five-year tenure. And what, pray tell, proves Couric’s gravitas? Bashing Sarah Palin, of course, as uninformed. Rainey didn’t ask how Couric would have performed if the tables were turned and Palin was the one
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