Posted on 06/12/2007 6:10:06 PM PDT by mcenedo
Leslie Moonves, CBS chief executive, on Tuesday suggested that sexist attitudes were partly to blame for the faltering performance of Katie Couric, the news anchor he recruited to the network with a $15m annual pay package.
“I’m sort of surprised by the vitriol against her. The number of people who don’t want news from a woman was startling,” Mr Moonves said of the audience’s reaction to Ms Couric, who this month brought ratings for the CBS Evening News to a 20-year low.
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Put on someone slightly less biased and you'll get better results. Keep spewing the same liberal crap and it wouldn't matter if you assigned the newscast to the current Playmate of the month.
(um, I might tune in once or twice, you know, just to make sure I'm getting all sides of the issues.)
I am not sexist, I stopped watching the MSM nightly news long long long before the perky one showed up.
It’s Perky Tarty Katy that is the problem. The role just does not fit her.
LOL, doesn’t matter - man or woman, it’s the whole bleeping see bee ess news that’s a farce, not worth watching............
CBS is run by liberal idiots.
hmmm...interesting.
They had bad ratings with a male
and
they had bad ratings with a female.
What other sex is there??
The news is from Katie, a person, not just a woman. Read my lips: I don’t like her.
Yep! Thii woman has a repuation of being hard on Republicans and soft on Democrats. Can You say BIAS.
Let’s hope Les is absolutely correct....given that America is sexist against a female reading the news surely they won’t vote for a woman like Hillary to be commander-in-chief.
Good evening, I'm Patricia Heaton, and here's tonight's news.......
Well its either sexism, or the fact that CBS sucks.
Sexism, really ? Put Michelle Malkin ( a woman and a “minority”) in Katie’s place and watch your ratings soar.
Oh, that’ll bring the viewers flocking back real fast. We’re all feeling so guilty now, we have to watch! NOT.
You know how it is with libs. It’s always someone else’s fault. We don’t like him/her because he’s/she’s tall, short, fat, black, hispanic, woman, you name it.
Anything but the truth. Lousy, biased “reporting” from a pukey liberal that editorializes every sentence. Libs never fail because they simply aren’t good enough.
Just like Senator Diane Feinstein, Jorge Arbusto, Juan McCainez and all that crew blaming “rednecks, bigots, racists and nativists” for shooting down the amnesty bill last week!! Using the same playbook!!
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hmmm...interesting.
They had bad ratings with a male and they had bad ratings with a female.
What other sex is there??
DO NOT GO THERE!!!
ooooooo...I think that MAY be sexist ;-)
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