Katie Couric Leaving CBS?

Katie Couric could leave CBS after the start of the new year, according to the Wall Street Journal. I love the concept that she could be leaving next year. How about asking those CBS O&O staffers who caught the blade recently if they would like to have had a year's notice. :)
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If it's true and if it happens, CBS will scale back its news gathering... hiring CNN to do it's news! Walter Cronkite must be so distressed that his once great news gathering home appears in shambles. Or, will it be a wise business move for CBS? The New York Times reports tonight that CBS may outsource work to CNN.

"Broadly speaking, the executives described conversations about reducing CBS’s news-gathering capacity while keeping its frontline personalities, like Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor, and paying a fee to CNN to buy the cable network’s news feeds."

It's been an odd relationship so far. Two weeks ago I blogged about the awkward David Beckham profile by celeb-anchor Anderson Cooper.... appearing on '60 Minutes'. Can we say testing the waters? If this happens, it will be the second major sign that CBS News and local news stations are collapsing. The first was the massive round of high-dollar cuts at stations across the country.