Washington Post | Hollywood Reporter
People who
claim Katie Couric's newscast is softer "must not have watched the evening news in a long time, because the mix of hard news is basically the same as we've been doing with
Bob Schieffer and basically the same as every network does," says CBS News president
Sean McManus. "The fact that we spent all of 20 seconds on the Cruise baby is not an indication of our dedication to hard news," he says.
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Retired TV newsman Ed Fouhy: "A bigger question than whether Couric will be successful is whether the program she anchors and the other two like it will withstand the seismic upheaval in the way Americans get their news."
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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It's good that she's trying new things, says Andersen ("Reliable Sources")
