Blaming Couric, Blaming Viewers — How About Blaming CBS News?

In today’s NYT, Bill Carter takes a moment to wonder who’s at fault” for Katie Couric‘s sour ratings. “Sadly, he forgets the third culprit: CBS News itself,” Rachel Sklar writes at Eat the Press.

Quoting: “Anchor and managing editor though she may be, the CBS newscast is a team effort — which means that someone must have flashed her the thumbs-up and told her she was doing great. And someone must have said, ‘Gee, Free Speech is an awesome idea!’”

Check out her comments about freeSpeech…

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