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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 10:58 PM
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Katie and CBS
With a little more than a year to go on her contract, Katie Couric is dressing up her resumé.

The CBS anchor, now 53, is facing a huge pay cut in her unprecedented $15 million-a-year salary.

More importantly, her bosses at CBS have not yet said whether they want to keep her — at any price.

“I would be flabbergasted if she didn’t take a pay cut,” after next year, says a source close to Katie.

The network’s “Evening News” was in third place when she came over from the “Today” show in 2006 — and it has not budged.

CBS News reportedly laid off 150 people on Monday — including, for the first time, staffers at “60 Minutes.” (A spokesman for the network said the number of layoffs was “a fraction” of that but declined to say how many.)


Katie Couric in Harpers Bazaar. Credit :Francois Dischinger.
No matter, the idea of paying Couric eight



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/stand_off_XeG72zsJqkldTz8td6gyqI#ixzz0eXJfjLjA
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Neecy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 11:03 PM
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1. wow
The comments section of the Post looks exactly like FR - terrible spelling, crude and sexist insults, general all-around ignorance.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 11:05 PM
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2. Isn't there a journalist they could hire?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 11:10 PM
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3. CBS? Hmmm. Anyone on 60 Minutes who might qualify? nt
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 11:17 PM
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4. you still upset about the Palin interview ?
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 11:49 PM
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5. I don't know what you mean.
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-03-10 11:59 PM
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6. CBS has said they are cutting "from top to bottom"
Edited on Wed Feb-03-10 11:59 PM by Tempest
It has nothing to do with Couric herself.

But you won't get that from the Murdoch owned Post.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-04-10 12:00 AM
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7. "a fraction"...
149/150.
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