
"We talk a lot and, yes, we’ve been discussing the possibilities. That’s true," Couric whispered Monday, the identical day more information facaded that she will not refurbish her agreement with CBS Evening News once it terminate in June.
When inquired what the syndicated show would be recognized for, Couric says, "Hopefully for smart conversation."
Couric says she doesn't "wholeheartedly" have the same opinion with David Letterman's declaration that night by night news anchors just should clutch the arrangement for their intact lives.
"I think maybe that could have been truer 10 or 20 years ago than it may be today," she says. "Everyone who does this job appreciates the fact that it’s still an important venue, but it is a declining genre in some ways in terms of how people consume news."
Couric protected her occupation as swarm of Evening News, which has been in third position following Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer for nearly all of the past five years.
"I believe we were in third place for 13 years before I got here, and I think habits, particularly with an evening news broadcast, move at a glacial pace. And I think that local news stations have something to do with it," she tells the Times.
But she would have made a few changes from the dig up go off as well.
"In retrospect I would have given people what they were used to, a traditional newscast," says Couric. "And then as they got to know me and got more comfortable, then I would’ve started toying with the format and trying new things. I think we were overly ambitious. We probably would have been better off playing it a little safer."
Couric also evaluated in on Charlie Sheen, who was lately ablated by CBS and Warner Bros from Two and a Half Men. She said condition it were up to her, she would have fired up him after he was in detention in 2009 for supposedly holding a dagger to the gullet of then-wife Brooke Mueller.
But Les Moonves "hasn’t really sought my advice on Charlie Sheen. I hope what Charlie Sheen did wouldn’t be consistent with the values of this network. That’s probably an unrealistic response, but that’s my initial gut reaction. Luckily, that’s not my job."
When inquired if she undergoes "less proud about going to work at CBS knowing that he was essentially a colleague," Couric said, "I don’t really consider Charlie Sheen a colleague.
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