CBS - COURIC MAY GET FINAL DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

Katie Couric may moderate a presidential-candidate debate after all. Weekend reports indicated that CBS is close to finalizing plans to air a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in North Carolina in April -- an actual date and time have not been firmed up -- ahead of the May 6 primary in that state. Couric is the only network anchor who has not moderated a presidential debate this year. She had been set to do so in Los Angeles last December, but that debate was called off after the Writers Guild of America threatened to picket it. Some reports indicated that Couric would preside over the North Carolina debate along with Washington bureau chief Bob Schieffer, her CBS Evening News predecessor.

17/03/2008