Well, that didn't take long! After just a week with the £8m-a-year Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, it has fallen back to third place in the ratings. NBC Nightly News regained the lead on Monday (with 8.3m viewers) and ABC World News took second place (7.5m) to Couric's 7.3m. Media critic Eric Boehlert has also written a highly critical assessment of Couric's show that deserves reading. Her launch, he argues, "perfectly captured so much of what's wrong with today's corporate media".
In another extraordinary development in the crazy world of Katie C, it has emerged that the doctor who helped Couric arrange her on-air colonoscopy, Dr Jonathan LaPook, has been hired by CBS in place of Elizabeth Kaledin, who has covered the medical beat for the network since 1996. "I am heartbroken by the loss of my job", she said, "to be replaced by someone with no journalistic experience". (Via USA Today)
