New CBS News Head Must Beat Boredom and Bias, Analysts Say

[Terri]

New CBS News Head Must Beat Boredom and Bias, Analysts Say

By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
November 1, 2005

(CNSNews.com) -- The new president of CBS News wants to revive the network's news operation, but according to some analysts, he must first overcome two major obstacles: boredom and bias.

Shawn McManus, head of CBS Sports since 1996, was named president of CBS News on Oct. 28 by Les Moonves, the head of parent company Viacom, and instructed to "break the mold in news."

Moonves added in an email to CBS employees that McManus, the son of famed sportscaster Jim McKay, "is a superb executive, a great leader and a fierce competitor whose pedigree for excellence in live-event programming is well known."

Move (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/november/1101_cbs_news1.shtml )

Hey! Gotta give them credit for overcoming boredom yesterday with the "sloppy seconds" line in the White House briefing room.

Bias? No way. That's ingrained into them. http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/it.gif

[KatyJ]

Thank you for the humor Terri.

I will not hold my breath until the cows come home. *The reason they will never beat bordom and bias is they don`t want to acknowledge they have a problem and their ratings on the bottom in Neilsen Rankings.

I am waiting for them to remove 60 Minutes. *They make up news stories that doesn`t have any true meaning.

Personally, I would like for NBC to takeover NFL http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/football.gif. *I don`t care about watching Gumbel.

They will never report bias news coverage. *They like to report negative coverage about Iraq, President Bush, our troops and anything else.