Some time back it was revealed CBS News was figuring out the dignified way to discontinue Katie Couric's term in the Evening News anchor chair. In having any meeting at all to discuss this, and in permitting someone to leak the information, it all but guaranteed a ratings death spiral --- which has pretty well gone according to schedule and pushed the newscast well down into third place with the smallest audience in its 60-year history.
The New Yorker's Nancy Franklin has some nice turns of phrase this week on the disarray.