I was mostly an ABC person, and felt that Charles Gibson was much better than Katie. And unlike Couric, Gibson had a hard news background, which served him well when he replaced Peter Jennings. I don't know if Roone Arledge had the idea of replacing David Hartman with someone from News, but it sure did pay off for ABC.
On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 1:33:24 PM UTC-4 PGage wrote: > I have no interest in reading this book, no interest in reading about this > book, no interest in hearing her talk about the book. > > I do have some interest in how the book will do in the marketplace. From > what I could tell (seems like it used to be easier to find this info) the > book is #9 on Amazon this week. I suppose Top Ten is good enough to justify > publishing the book (not sure how much she was paid). > > I was Team Jane Pauley, but Couric was competent enough in her Today role. > She earned my enmity when it became clear she and her bosses had conflated > morning infotainment popularity with hard news credibility, which > eventually flowered into the Peter Principle disaster that was her CBS > experience. > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 8:46 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> If you didn't bother with her Colbert chat, she has a longer one with >> Kara Swisher of the NYT (~42min audio): >> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-katie-couric.html >> (link) >> B >> >> Tom Wolper, to Kevin M (who replied to moi), all Sept 30th: >> >>> >>> Does she mention almost single-handedly destroying the credibility of >>>> CBS news with her horrific stint as anchor? >>>> >>> >>> Since it didn't come back after she was gone it's safe to say she had a >>> lot of help. >>> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b2094b4b-2e3f-4058-be6c-65d324edaf11n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b2094b4b-2e3f-4058-be6c-65d324edaf11n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d1a3d253-27e5-483e-9117-a522249beb69n%40googlegroups.com.
