It would be sad if they let her go, as she 'is' good. I knew when she changed jobs it was not the right move for her, as it's tough to be a nightly news person, but she has plenty of money to finally stay home and be w/her kids. She'll be back in some form, some day, if they let her go. She will be missed.

The problem with the CBS news with Katie is the producer, not Katie. All they have Katie doing is introducing other people who report on the stories. They don't need someone with her credentials to do that. Let Katie do the reporting (i.e., more face time) and that will solve the ratings problem. I bet that in the 30 minute news report she has no more than 6 minutes on screen.

I believe Couric flopped because she is awful (I don't care to analyze why) I never watched any other channel, but CBS because it had great correspondents. I'm old enough to have watched Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner. Dan Rather held the tradition as best he could, but CBS wanted to imitate others, like Fox News. These were mature correspondents who told the news with composure. I simply could not stomach Couric. Bad news is not news, and it's not entertainment. If CBS News goes back to basics, I will turn my TV for the evening news again.

Gee, we didn't see this coming did we. Ms. Couric was a flop from day one. The decision to put her in the anchor chair was about as stupid as they come. There must be morons running network news operations these days because not one of them reports real news. It's all celeb crap and sensationalism upon which to hang pharmaceutical ads. Couric is a product of that kind of thinking - all fluff and celebrity. Why don't they just be honest and call the broadcast "The CBS Evening Crap Fest". As long as we keep lapping up this mediocrity, they will continue to feed it to us.

I think she may be a victim of changing times. Back when Walter was doing the news virtually the entire nation watched every single night. Only newspapers and weekly periodicals filled us in on the local stuff and the in depth news.

Nowadays I never watch the evening news and I suspect a lot of others don't either. We don't have to wait until 6:30 and have our news spoon fed to us. We can access any type of news instantly on the Net. We can get updates by the minute on any of the news or specialty information tv channels. And we can decide for ourselves which stories we want to pursue in depth.

The nightly news model just doesn't work for this generation which is probably why CBS is considering leaving the fray and subbing it out to CNN. Why blow all that money on the huge infrastructure required to run the news department when it seems to me that not enough people even bother to watch?

She is an actress- not a journalist.

Cronkite, Rather and all the others before
her were true blue journalists.