“Consider this tantalizing fact: more New Yorkers get their news in Spanish from Jorge Ramos on “Noticiero Univision” than in English from Dan Rather on “The CBS Evening News.”

Louis Nevaer, Pacific News Service, October 13, 2004

“Univision’s Ramos is Rather-Brokaw-Jennings rolled into one, and a prolific author as well.”

Newsday, January 20, 2004

One of “The Ten Most Admired Latinos”

Latino Leaders magazine. January 31, 2003

“One of this country’s highest rated network news anchors”.

Nightline (ABC) March 2, 2001

“Star newscaster of Hispanic TV. Hispanic TV’s No 1 correspondent and key to a huge voting bloc.”

The Wall Street Journal

“The anchor for Univision’s evening news, Jorge Ramos, he’s actually bigger than Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw — at least in Miami, Los Angeles and Houston, where his newscast consistently beats out all the other networks for the top ratings.”

The Miami Herald

At least he admits when he’s making stuff up….

I did watch 60 Minutes last night, thinking that the election is over and it would be safe, and was astonished to see a segment on G from Baghdad as a reporter embedded with the terrorists in Iraq! I would have had him arrested. Sickening.

CBS News, Katie or no Katie–they’re down for the count.

It would be fun if Immelt would bring in somebody from a totally different business, like locomotive, medical, or appliance, to run NBC News. Might get some very different approaches to things.

GE is a corporation more concerned about its shareholders than Viacom or Disney. You run the network like NBC is run; opinion reigns on its cable appendages(CNBC and MCNBC); clean up the network news by moderating its political edge

in a conservative country and a changing media environment, thus increasing viewers and ad rates; buy a movie operation to feed your productions and run a tight fiscal ship in Hollywood.

GE, the platinium card of American corporation, has a long tradition of making money for its shareholders and it is run by serious money people. It is not like Disney [which if

you read Jim Stewart's latest piece in the New Yorker] is run by a child and it is not Viacom which has a real corporate identity crisis.

Katie would do just fine. She is very good at reading a teleprompter, when she is doing a serious story she will wear her glasses to give the appearence of gravitas, and she has a smooth delivery and a nice smile. The myth that you have to be a reporter, the Mapes scandall exposes this fact perfectly, and that these anchors are nothing but newsreaders and actors should not exclude Katie. Katie would be able to do what Dan, Peter, and Tom have done for years and the fact that she has a huge following and is a woman would help a floundering CBS. She could hardly do worse then Dan and there is no reason not to try her. Not that I would watch her, or any male replacement either, but I doubt that she uses anymore hairspray then the male newsreaders do.