The Associated Press: Katie Couric's ratings still sinking

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More On That Controversial Woman in Vanity Fair, and That High-Priced Female Anchor
Published 4/30/2008 at TIME.com: Tuned In
... excerpts Walters' upcoming memoir, Audition, in which—even as Katie Couric runs into more ratings trouble at CBS —she recalls being dismissed as the first female evening news anchor, with a giant-for-the-time salary and a none-too-happy male co-anchor: The press was relentless on the million-­dollar baby, or, more, the $5 million baby. Then there were my television colleagues. Everyone from Walter Cronkite to the head of CBS News, to sportscasters were clucking away about the million-dollar death of journalism. "Is Barbara a journalist or is she Cher?" asked Richard Salant, ...

Here's what viewers say Katie Couric should do next
Published 5/6/2008 by Bob Sassone at TV Squad
Filed under: News, Celebrities, Reality-Free There have been approximately 400 stories written about CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric in the past few weeks: she's thinking about leaving, she's getting her lowest ratings ever, etc, etc. And now TV viewers are weighing in on what Katie should do. A Gallup Poll asked 1,016 adults (I'd love to hear why they come up with such numbers, why they didn't keep calling until it was 1100 or at least stop calling at 1000) what Katie should do. And you know what? 46% of ...