Comments on: CBS prolongs our agony http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: HA http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76721 HA Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:28:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76721 Kevin, I think we agree on CBS's strategy in selecting Couric. But I disagree that this was a "marketing" decision. I suspect that the marketing people were over-ruled by the leftist ideologues who gravitate into journalism. Kevin,

I think we agree on CBS’s strategy in selecting Couric. But I disagree that this was a “marketing” decision. I suspect that the marketing people were over-ruled by the leftist ideologues who gravitate into journalism.

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That is the point I was trying to make. CBS, like all of the once Big Three, was never going to re-examine their antiquated thinking and make wholesale changes that would bring in new viewers. They are just trying to beat the other two networks for the remainders of the shrinking pie. When I said it was a “good move” it was in the context of their network turf wars.

]]> By: HA http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76719 HA Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:52:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76719 Kevin, Well if this was a marketing decision, then whoever made it either failed Marketing 101 or took it at Moscow State University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University We have 3 networks fighting over a market segment comprised of half the country, while nobody is targeting the segment comprised of the other half of the country. CBS had a chance to monopolize the conservative half of the country and leave NBC and ABC to fight over the "liberal" half. Instead, CBS will at best continue to be the "me too" leftist network. My guess is that there will be an intial spike of interest after Couric starts, but soon the prevailing wisdom will be "what the hell were they thinking?" Kevin,

Well if this was a marketing decision, then whoever made it either failed Marketing 101 or took it at Moscow State University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University

We have 3 networks fighting over a market segment comprised of half the country, while nobody is targeting the segment comprised of the other half of the country.

CBS had a chance to monopolize the conservative half of the country and leave NBC and ABC to fight over the “liberal” half. Instead, CBS will at best continue to be the “me too” leftist network.

My guess is that there will be an intial spike of interest after Couric starts, but soon the prevailing wisdom will be “what the hell were they thinking?”

]]> By: Kevin Peters http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76718 Kevin Peters Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:26:04 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76718 HA: All of the relacements for CBS were going to come from the NYC-DC liberal bubble. CBS would cough out any moderate to conservative choice so that was already a given. CBS isn't trying to inovate or create a new paradigm, they are trying to win the battle between the identical triplets of CBS, NBC, ABC. That is why I call it a marketing decision rather then ideological. The left slant was a given. HA:
All of the relacements for CBS were going to come from the NYC-DC liberal bubble. CBS would cough out any moderate to conservative choice so that was already a given. CBS isn’t trying to inovate or create a new paradigm, they are trying to win the battle between the identical triplets of CBS, NBC, ABC. That is why I call it a marketing decision rather then ideological. The left slant was a given.

]]> By: Stace http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76717 Stace Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:11:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76717 I certainly agree with Roger's endangered species alert. I'm picky about the form though. In binomial nomenclature, only the first word (the genus) is capitalized, and both words are italicized. For example, the animal that, as I write, is bothering me about it being chowtime, belongs to <i>Canis familiaris</i>. I certainly agree with Roger’s endangered species alert. I’m picky about the form though. In binomial nomenclature, only the first word (the genus) is capitalized, and both words are italicized.

For example, the animal that, as I write, is bothering me about it being chowtime, belongs to Canis familiaris.

]]> By: HA http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76716 HA Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:28:41 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76716 Couric's selection has a "New Coke" kind of feel to it. All the marketing guys thinks it will be great, but the consumer's will reject it. If CBS want'ed to be the leading network news organization, they would have opened up the check book, ripped out and signed a blank check and handed it to Brit Hume. CBS with Brit Hume would have done to NBC and ABC what Fox did to CNN. They would have completely dominated evening news. But then they would have haven to given up their leftist, DNC controlled agenda. So instead of having the evening news presented by a cranky old DNC mouthpiece, it will be presented by a perky, young DNC mouthpiece. Gone forever will be the opportunity to be the Fox of network news. The selection of Couric wasn't a business decision, it was an ideological decision. Couric’s selection has a “New Coke” kind of feel to it. All the marketing guys thinks it will be great, but the consumer’s will reject it.

If CBS want’ed to be the leading network news organization, they would have opened up the check book, ripped out and signed a blank check and handed it to Brit Hume.

CBS with Brit Hume would have done to NBC and ABC what Fox did to CNN. They would have completely dominated evening news. But then they would have haven to given up their leftist, DNC controlled agenda.

So instead of having the evening news presented by a cranky old DNC mouthpiece, it will be presented by a perky, young DNC mouthpiece. Gone forever will be the opportunity to be the Fox of network news.

The selection of Couric wasn’t a business decision, it was an ideological decision.

]]> By: mojo http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76715 mojo Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:54:00 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76715 We got the bubble-headed-bleached-blonde who Comes on at five She can tell you íbout the plane crash with a gleam In her eye Itís interesting when people die- Give us dirty laundry -- Don Henley We got the bubble-headed-bleached-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you íbout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Itís interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

– Don Henley

]]> By: Kevin Peters http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76714 Kevin Peters Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:53:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76714 Rogeer: T.V. News is a joke so this isn't a comment on quality. But CBS has been stuck in last for so long this might actually be a good move. Remember, I am not talking about journalistic quality or integrity. Couric can read a teleprompter as well as anyone else that is out there, don't ask me why but she has a large group of people who love her so at least they will get an initial ratings bumb, and she can be a liberal mouthpiece just as well as anyone else CBS has. They were never going to hire a impartial journalist for the job so her ability is really beside the point. This has everything to do with marketing and nothing to do with journalism. Desperate last place organizations often go for the hail mary play. This might actually work. If it doesn't they will still be where they are now, last place. Rogeer:
T.V. News is a joke so this isn’t a comment on quality. But CBS has been stuck in last for so long this might actually be a good move. Remember, I am not talking about journalistic quality or integrity. Couric can read a teleprompter as well as anyone else that is out there, don’t ask me why but she has a large group of people who love her so at least they will get an initial ratings bumb, and she can be a liberal mouthpiece just as well as anyone else CBS has. They were never going to hire a impartial journalist for the job so her ability is really beside the point. This has everything to do with marketing and nothing to do with journalism. Desperate last place organizations often go for the hail mary play. This might actually work. If it doesn’t they will still be where they are now, last place.

]]> By: ahem http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76713 ahem Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:57:22 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76713 This is Couric's and CBS's swan song. When the experiment fails--as we know so certainly it shall--both can retire to some well-deserved obscurity. This is Couric’s and CBS’s swan song. When the experiment fails–as we know so certainly it shall–both can retire to some well-deserved obscurity.

]]> By: photoncourier.blogspot.com http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76712 photoncourier.blogspot.com Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:57:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/04/05/cbs-prolongs-our-agony/#comment-76712 Tom Wolfe commented that a "newscaster" is simply the modern incarnation of a linotype machine...something that merely formats and presents the information and thoughts developed by others. Tom Wolfe commented that a “newscaster” is simply the modern incarnation of a linotype machine…something that merely formats and presents the information and thoughts developed by others.

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