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by Allison Waldman, posted May 18th 2008 3:02PM
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Wallace is on the short list for replacements if -- more likely when -- Katie Couric departs the CBS Evening News anchor desk. Wallace, son of the CBS elder statesmen and 60 Minutes attack dog Mike Wallace, has been host of Fox News Sunday since 2003. But the guy isn't interested. "As much as I grew up in CBS and as much as I associate that anchor chair with Walter Cronkite and the history of broadcasting, I have never been so happy as I have working the last four-plus years at Fox. I suspect I've had a much better last couple of years than Katie Couric."
Still, you have to wonder if Wallace isn't secretly interested in a spot that even his father never attained, the big chair at CBS. Interestingly, he's worked at NBC and ABC, but never CBS. Perhaps he doesn't want to be working in his father's shadow, or didn't, because by this statement, I kind of wonder if he isn't angling for the gig. "I don't think they would offer it to me, but if they did, I would let you and everybody else know I had been offered it because it would be good bragging rights. But I'd say no."
It seems to me that anybody other than a Fox transplant would be higher on the list than junior Wallace, just because of the contretemps between the networks. Would Les Moonves want to have to swallow Katie's failure and bringing in a Fox man as his anchor? I think not.
Hmm...what do you think? Is this a case of Chris Wallace protesting just a bit too much -- is he saying no so that someone will try to convince him to say yes?
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