Thursday, March 28, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Open Memo to CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus

DECEMBER 4, 2005 --

The day after writing the above commendation for the CBS News credit card report, this writer (a CBS News researcher in the 1960s) read a report that you wanted NBC's Katie Couric to be the
next anchorperson on the CBS Evening News.

LPR hopes that the emphasis at CBS News is on straight reporting, on informing the American people, and putting officials and the private sector on notice that bullying of the American people will not go
ignored.

That is to say, if the spirit of Federalist 57, rather than some demographic formula, guides CBS News, your ratings will increase -- and without need of replacing Bob Schieffer at the anchor desk.