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Falling viewership for CBS, falling ratings for CBS Evening News, the CBS News writers vote to strike and visions of poor Katie, shivering in the shadows: will it come to that?

From Reuters CBS News Writers Authorize Union to Call Strike:

CBS News writers, producers and editors voted to authorize their labor union to call a strike after working without a contract for two years.

Meanwhile, some are saying this is a horrible time for a strike--especially for Katie Couric. From Bloomberg, "CBS Writers Authorize Negotiators to Call Strike:"

``That couldn't come at a worse time,'' said Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media, an advertising agency in New York. ``Katie Couric has been struggling. CBS is in last place in the evening news. It's in last place in the early morning. This isn't going to help.''

The writers have been working somewhere around two years without a contract. It makes one wonder how long the news anchors would do that. So, lastly this from the LA Times, "CBS Writers to Strike"

"It's a very powerful vote," said Michael Winship, president of the WGA East. "It proves that the CBS News folks have reached a point where they have taken this situation in their own hands and recognized that they need to get a contract, whatever needs to be done."

Maybe she could see if she's too late to get in on some Dan Rather-like action.

by Mondoreb
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VIDEO REPORT
CBS News has reported that "police have been flooded with tips about Baby Grace".
Police have said that they have narrowed the search down to three girls, but they now have expanded it to about two dozen missing little girls. They also said they have been "flooded with tips" from all over the United States about possible leads. More from CBS News:

Investigators on Monday said at least two dozen girls reported missing from across the country match the physical description of the child investigators have named "Baby Grace."

Investigators were pursuing 170 active leads and on Monday were conducting follow-up interviews with people who had given promising clues, Galveston County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said, according to the Galveston County Daily News.

Hundreds of tips from around the country have poured in since authorities released sketches of the unidentified child on Friday. A fisherman found the toddler's body a week ago along the Intercoastal Waterway.

Police first suspected the body of the girl may have been that of Madeline McCann, an English girl kidnapped during her parents' vacation in Portugal. They then ruled her out, only to leave the door open later.

The search for the identity of the little girl police have named "Baby Grace" continues. At the end of the case, one family may at last know the fate of their daughter.

by Mondoreb
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