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Mr. Smith is a Systems Architect for Wells Fargo, Communications Director for the Polk County Republican Party, and a political blogger at the Des Moines Register. He is a founding member of Valley Evangelical Free Church in West Des Moines, Iowa. Art is the Publisher and an Editor of The Conservative Reader, The Conservative Reader: Iowa and Editor of Blog Net News Iowa. He occasionally appears at BitsBlog, and substitutes for Tim Albrecht at "The Beanwalker Live!" on the internet radio station Des Moines Local Live. Art's views are purely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wells Fargo, Polk County Republicans or Valley Evangelical Free Church.

CBS And Couric May Split

CBS And Couric SplitIt troubles me to think that CBS may have dug so low for news sources that they may have been trolling at The Conservative Reader this week and took my comments about the Evening News to heart.

It seems that there is likely to be a parting of ways for Couric and CBS sometime after the Presidential Inaugural in 2009.  What is surprising is that CBS would continue to keep the low ratings they have experienced since shortly after the beginning of Couric’s tenure… reportedly, significantly below Bob Shieffer’s ratings while he acted as interim anchor after Dan Rather left the show.  An organization like CBS should be working aggressively, in my opinion, to shore up ratings even if it means taking drastic measures.  Including replacing Couric sooner rather than later.

Hat Tip to the Wall Street Journal.

Update:  Added image.

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