CBS Shakes Up Its Morning Show

Someday I might have a web site that tracks changes in the news media. Media Monday is a feature of Post Obotomy Syndome. But we just scratch the surface.

Things are changing and they are changing fast. Put a media-related website on the back burner and bookmark articles. Check back in a few months and the environment changes radically. Change we can believe in most of the time.

The Silent Majority votes LOUD and CLEAR with their pocketbooks and remote controls. NYT ad revenue was down 82% in one quarter. Katie Couric maintains the lowest ratings for a CBS anchor since they started tracking this metric. Now CBS has shaken up their morning news lineup following atrocious ratings. http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/12/01/the-early-show-exec-producer-why-smith-and-rodriguez-had-to-g/

Despite his pathetic ratings, Harry Smith remains under contract to CBS and you will see his high-priced face from time to time if you click through the dial. Of all the fawning media stars, Harry Smith might be the most Obama-Friendly. It seems that the affection might be mutual.

We previously featured this video on the president's last birthday.

BARRY LOVES HARRY


We could produce dozens of Harry Smith infatuation vids but this one seems to touch most of the bases. The afterglow of a romantic evening.

HARRY LOVES BARRY


It gets even more fawning than this. Harry was able to compose himself following his night to remember. There were reports that he was tearful (for different reasons than most of us were) during the election coverage. Of all of the mainstream media shills, Harry Smith has possibly been the coziest with Barry. That is saying something, I know. To distinguish oneself in that field, that very crowded and competitive band of slobbering adulators, is not an easy task. But Harry runs at the front of the pack.

NYT, Couric, Harry, Oprah, MSNBC... The decline of the mainstream media continues and it continues in a predictable manner. Obama Fatigue was instantaneous. The backlash is underway and the backlash has hit the Obama courtesans the hardest.

Who will be next? Let's let Frank have the final word.