It is no secret that the top people at CBS are disappointed with Couric. And since long.

At the television market Mipcom in October 2007 I heard Les Moonves express "our" disappointment with Couric during a press conference. However Couric has not been

replaced nor fired. She goes on and on, a freak show for those liking to see a living disappointment perform every day on CBS television. So what does the situation tell us?

That a very well paid female disappointment will not be removed as long as her male bosses know

the price it is infinitely higher. It is very expensive for a company´s image not to be politically correct. Especially CBS who wanted to bury its own scoop, the Abu Ghraib scandal, because as Moonves put it to me: - The White House did not want it".

Or maybe it's that $15 million contract - they're probably stuck with her for at least a few years, but then I'm sure she's gone.

Emily's original post is right on. I grow weary of complaints from successful women about the issue of sexism as it applies to their own lives.

That said, I can't understand the extreme disappointment with Katie Couric as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. I wasn't exactly pleased when she was chosen to succeed Dan Rather; in fact, they could have kept Bob Schieffer filling in there for a good while longer, in my opinion. Katie came from the Today Show--it smacked of a tremendous lowering of standards for the 'tiffany network' and the legacy of Walter Cronkite. But I felt more charitable to her when I watched CBS's sad attempts to make their evening news slightly different (those 'Free Speech' commentaries? Bleah) and more hip and relevant. Basically, how much could Katie really do to improve a half-hour news show, tightly formatted, and stuffed with commercials from pharmaceutical companies? It's not a format highly conducive to change. The not-so-profound point is: She has editorial input, but, for all that matters to the viewing public, she reads the news (and looks great doing it, if I may say so), and no matter how they tart it up with sidebar interviews and the like, it's a scripted show, and she does just fine. Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson are in the same boat. Trying to cover the world in some resonant, meaningful way in 23 minutes is a near-impossible job. It's a shame, though, that sexism even has to be mentioned related to this topic. CBS laid out big bucks for their star anchor, and it still didn't reverse their downward trend, period.