"Katie Couric's barrage of bad publicity is coming not from the outside, but from the inside of CBS," Roger Friedman writes in a column that quickly becomes a defense of Couric.

He says "one of Couric's frequently mentioned enemies is Bob Schieffer," and suggests that Gail Shister's piece "was inspired by Schieffer as its main source."

Friedman thinks the CBS Evening News is "pretty good," and says Couric is going to be the anchor "for a good long time to come..."