ms. couric was perceived to be that.hat's my theory. >> that is the argument she didn't have the gravitasce the weight to bring the story. i will tell you this. once upon a time walter cronkright was voted the most trusted man or person in america. nobody in his right mind thinks that brian williams or diane sawyer is the most trusted person in america today. i don't think anybody going forward. i don't think anybody we know of going forward has the kind of grav irbe tace cronkright or rather or jennings or brokaw had. i think those days are over. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world the united states is conducted an operation that killed osama bin -- osama bin ladladen. >> this is why i think they have been fair because it helps barack obama. i am not saying that with any disdain. i think he did a gutsy good job on this. this puts him in a positive light going forward. they are going to cover it as a positive whether it would have been fascinating if bush in his last days in office had done th

ms. couric, who i think is a talented broadcaster. i think you feel the same way. talented' reads the teleprompter. perfectly right when she says cbs was in third place 13 years before she got there. but she lost audience as well. dan rather lost it, she lost it why couldn't she bring people in. >> the honest answer, bill, and i'm in good company with, i think i mentioned this last week to you, william goldman the fellow who wrote butch cassidy and son dance kid comes to predicting world of entertainment nobody knows anything. the honest answer is nobody knows for sure. what i have suggested in the past is that some people are popular in the morning. they are breakfast cereal like corn flakes. katie couric was corn flakes. you don't eat corn flakes for dinner. >> bill: got to be a why why the corn flake diet wouldn't translate. give you mine and you react to it. >> okay. >> bill: katie couric came in with a deficit because of the rather situation and cbs warnings were weak. they didn't have oprah, cbs local news and many markets was third place she came. in but the