The species Pompositasaurus Rex, anyway. Les Moonves may be admitting that Roger Simon was right.

Moonves, who will ultimately select Rather's replacement, said he believes many young viewers are turned off by a single "voice of God" anchor in the Internet age.

He spoke publicly about his search for the first time since Rather announced in late November that he was stepping down from the "CBS Evening News." Moonves stressed that he's still considering all possibilities. It's unclear whether a new format would be ready for when Rather leaves in early March, or whether an interim successor would be named.

"Those days are over when you have that guy sitting behind the desk who everyone believes to the `nth' degree," Moonves told reporters. "It's sort of an antiquated way of news telling and maybe there's a new way of doing it."

And if he is, to stretch the analogy, they were wiped out by an asteroid called the Internet and the blogosphere, that they never saw coming.

I say bring back Connie Chung.

So they are going to instead annoy us by cutting to one anchor person for 10 seconds that spits out one peice of news and then cut away to peice of video for 5 seconds and then pop up another person standing in another city that will quickly run down some absurd facts then smile smartly into the camer, "And now to Bridgette for the entertainment" Cuts to skinny butt girl sitting in a restaurant wearing square glasses and starts filling our heads with nonsense. It will suck

Alan we can't bother Conie Chung, she may still be ovulating!!

IF and let me say, ONLY IF the Big 3 copy Fox will they make their product competitive. They need that system Fox has gotten down so well. A talking head posing news items and questions to at least 2 people who are from different sides of the issue, and letting them talk it out. Or giving JUST dates, times, places, names etc of events happening around the world, you know, NEWS.

They will have to GIVE the information and let ME, and many others, decide what to think. They will also have to show some of the good side of SOMETHING, SOMETIME!! Negativeism is OUT and will be for a while. Negativeism lost an election, and it's lost viewer share, but they may not get it yet.

The American public is sick to death of their left slanted, leftist opinionated, presidential candidate pushing agendas.

Will ovulating get ratings?

Alan,
NOT EVEN IF THEY SHOW IT LIVE!!!!