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In the February . Twenty-eight version of The Long Island Times, journalists Brian Stelter and Bill Carter wrote a piece titled "Network Reports at a Crossroads. " Essentially, the business piece explored the implications of the reducing money of CBS and ABC stories.The North American Red Cross But an explosive device is buried inside the tract. Quoting nameless sources, the item implies that CNN's Anderson Cooper is being courted to replace Katie Couric as anchor on the CBS Evening News.Spotting it, I grinned and thought I have seen this game before.

Planting rumours is the standard
Planting a rumour in the body of a tale is a favourite ploy of those looking to play with the head of a high-priced talent not making results. The NFL does it all of the time.The endgame is to get the artist, athlete or other non-business-minded person to get so freaked out that they're going to become "furious and not take it anymore. " The point is to get the target to give up instead of being fired. In giving up, the possession is off the financial hook.

I watched Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News the evening the tale broke.There had been an unmistakable look behind the eyes a hurt, spiritless, worried look concealed as a grin, a look that will be noted only by people who have undergone the general public character version of waterboarding. I wish that I might have spoken to Katie before she took the anchor job with CBS Stories . Remember how tenderly real she was on the Today Show, ready to interview hard and soft newsmakers with equal coolness and effect?

Some years back, I was the host of a programme on Channel four called the Midday Show. A local programme, barely possessing the visibility or poke of the Today show, it had plenty of Today's elements , for example transiting from a hard-news interview to yukking it up with a cook fixing some mixture on the kitchen set. Like NBC's Today, interviews on Channel 4's 12 pm Show frequently made reports. After more than ten years of hosting these and other shows for WSM radio and Channel four I received an offer from Channel two to anchor their newscasts. I dithered over the choice to remain in my comfortable zone or leave for the land of hard reports, much as Katie must have contemplated her call.