CBSer turned CNNer John Roberts — “the man once tapped as a possible replacement for Dan Rather at CBS” — has something to say about broadcast networks versus cable news.
For all the “perceived power and glory” of the broadcast networks, “they’re not putting that much on the air,” he tells Broadcasting & Cable.
And: “Obviously, if you had a Katie job, you would be able to make an awful lot of money and only have to do it for a few years and then you could retire to Montana or wherever it is that Tom Brokaw went. But I would rather be where I am now, particularly given the problems that CBS has got. I don’t want to talk too much about that, but CNN is going along terrifically.”
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