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Article: Blues at 'The CBS Morning News'.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- July 14, 1986
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BLUES AT 'THE CBS MORNING NEWS'
ONE OF MY favorite pastimes, next to sleeping late when I should be watching the network TV offerings, is reading about all the goings-on at The CBS Morning News. Now scheduled for extinction in December, this program has for five years been a serial saga, a miniseries in epic time. It should have been called "Mr. Green Jeans' Revenge," for no matter how the CBS News executives struggled to improve the show, they could never make it as good as Captain Kangaroo.
Of course, the Morning News is not their only problem. The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather recently lost its ratings lead among news shows after a zillion ...