Bobby Burack
No one likes working with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell. We know this because anonymous sources inside CBS have leaked their opinions of her for years. And none are positive.
Over the weekend, CBS staffers told the New York Post that O’Donnell’s “toxic behavior” and $8 million annual salary could lead to her exit from the network when her contract expires this spring.
Complaints about O’Donnell’s behavior include mistreating hair, makeup and wardrobe staffers. O’Donnell demands a full “dress rehearsal” before each show, during which she often berates her assistants and producers. She’s a bully to those below her — there’s no graver flaw in television than that.
In addition, staffers believe O’Donnell does not put CBS in the best position to compete with its ABC and NBC counterparts. For example, O’Donnell is the only nightly broadcast anchor not broadcasting from Ukraine, thus undermining the network’s on-ground reporting.
O’Donnell already lags well behind Lester Holt’s NBC Nightly News and David Muir’s ABC World News Tonight in the ratings. So any disadvantage only buries CBS deeper.
As a result, CBS has begun looking for O’Donnell’s successor. Late last year, CBS offered Brian Williams the role O’Donnell holds on Evening News during its recruitment of him. And because Williams turned down the offer, CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil has emerged as a rumored candidate for O’Donnell’s job.
The television business hardly ends well for anyone. TV personalities either overstay their welcome or become too expensive or lose all internal support. Somehow, O’Donnell checks all three boxes.
How you treat people while you are at the top then decides how hard you eventually fall. To the excitement of CBS staffers, you can expect O’Donnell to fall hard.
Even CBS doesn’t want an $8 million-a-year bully anymore.
Wow, and they thought that bringing on Lyin’ Brian Williams would be a good move???
Ha that was my first thought too. Like, wait, does that say “Brian Williams”? THAT Brian Williams??
Oh how I missed his tales of bodies floating through the French Quarter and how terrorists tried to shoot him out of the sky with missiles. Come to think of it, he would have been perfect being Biden’s PR man instead of Psaki. Imagine the heroic sagas those two could weave
I seem to recall a report some years ago of Norah O’Donnell running naked and drunk thru the streets of Georgetown after learning her boyfriend was cheating on her ??? Has THAT ever been verified?
All these female news reading cunts always look pissed and on the rag 24/7 I mean come on man I don’t watch but have seen just enough
No one takes the MSM Evening News anchors seriously anymore. Just 3 talking self important heads
the “Casting Couch”is a fickle bitch… I look at Norah and think she’s not quite as “adventuresome” as is needed to hold the anchor position…
Who cares? another MSM network fraud nobody watches…..
She looks like a bitch, cold with a stick up her ass. It doesn’t matter who they replace her with. Brian Williams is such a pussy he had to make up heroic situations he said he was part of. Pathetic.
I haven’t looked at the evening news in decades. I didn’t even know this person was the anchor on CBS.