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Katie will certainly be around through the end of 2007 and into the new year. After the new year, CBS will start pushing a replacement, who will be launched with much fanfare and hoopla a month before the 2008 presidential elections. Katie will be welcomed as a "special correspondent" for election night coverage. And after that, she'll be rotated into the "60 Minutes" lineup until her contract is up.

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I think they will do it before November sweeps (AKA one year before the election). They can get a boost with the new person (and surrounding "controversy"), and have the person in place and settled in time for the primary season.

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She's a goner before the end of the year.

The biggest problem is who has the stature to replace her?

My vote is either:

A. Anderson Cooper (Young, But Has Tons of Potential)
B. Paul Magers (KCBS Los Angeles Main Anchor--has consistently won big audience wherever he works)

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They may try to get her to go, but if she has a contract...I mean, where is she going to go? Back to the Today show? That, maybe even more than who the hell could CBS get to replace her, is the real question: unless they can force her out, why would she leave?

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Anderson Cooper just signed a 5-year, $50 million deal with CNN. No way he's leaving there.

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The news should be handed to us by those who know it not just the meger ability to read the bold print. Katie Couric can read those damn words but cannot read into the story she delivers. She is like having a girlscout with a hangover telling us about our world affairs. Speaking of world affairs, if any one knows about affairs ask Paul Magers he will give you a story but not the news. Scott Shepard would be a contender as well as Laura Dew and Laura Diaz. Could go to the news farm to pluck a chicken from MSNBC, they all squawk with a walk.
My bet: Katie leaves but she is to late and she didn't see the door and will knock her across new guidelines of anchordom!

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Ok !Ok!
So Katie wasn't hot at night but she was hot in the mornings. Then, so is sex. Hey, CBS invited her to this garden party. So if you felt compelled to have the first highbred flower in the running for the evening news races, quick , you just need to go back to the garden. Pick a "brand" new female bud from the reporting field,water and fertilize.Simple. Then you have a great flower to begin with for your new garden. Don't go back and get an old plant, your garden will die for certain.
But if all you want is fertilizer and a female, hire Hillary Clinton. See, she will be looking for another way to keep her face "PLANTED" on the sets of America. Then you will just keep pace with what you have already plowed. Yourselves into the ground.

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Katie Couric should stay put and the same goes for "I don't give a damn what happens in Minnesota Paul Magers." Hey maybe Katie and Paul coud do "it " together. I mean the news.

Ken

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