Les Moonves Sorta Responds to Dan Rather's Couric Critique
Les Moonves is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The CBS chief is firing back – if "speaking generally" can qualify as such – at former newsman Dan Rather, who spent yesterday morning pile-driving Katie Couric and her news broadcast.
Broadcasting & Cable picks up at this morning's Newhouse School-sponsored breakfast series:
Speaking generally, Moonves said the amount of negative press generated by Couric’s move from morning TV to the old boys network of evening news has been "pretty startling."
"I’m surprised at the vitriol that has come out against (Couric)," he said.
Well, she is a woman. And it is an old boys network of evening news. Just imagine what would happen if Sam Champion took over — there'd be a stoning.
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The "Perky Katie Experiment" was a bust from the beginning. If Moonves is making these horrible personnel decisions (Tailwind Clinton loving run MSNBC into the groung Rick Kaplan and Couric) he needs to go now!
[...] "CBS Evening News executive producer Rick Kaplan is mad as hell at Dan Rather," writes recent birthday boy Roger Friedman, who claims not to read us while mimicking our ledes. [...]
Katie is a woman with charm and a great news anchor… CBS should stood by her