CBS Exec: “Clearly, We Think It Is Time For A New Kind Of News”

“A radical operation may have been the only way to save the patient” — the patient being the evening news, Newsweek’s Marc Peyser and Johnnie L. Roberts write. The say “CBS CEO Les Moonves was so intent on blowing up the traditional network-news model that he also pursued Couric’s ‘Today’ successor, Meredith Vieira, in case Couric balked.”

An unnamed CBS exec says “Clearly, we think it is time for a new kind of news. I don’t think evening news is dead. When you put people in like Katie, there is potential to grow. This is the first woman anchor. That might mean something.”