CBS producer who coined the term 'anchor' as he moulded the great Walter Cronkite into 'the most trusted man in America', is predicting that the whole game is up.

Couric sits in Cronkite's old chair anchoring the CBS evening news. She got the job 18 months ago when Dan Rather, an Old White Guy, got fired for

using false documents to report that Dubya Bush had gone officially AWOL from his National Guard duties. Couric, CBS thought, would lighten things up and get the audience back. She was the first woman solo news anchor and her bosses agreed to pay her a whacking $15m a year.

But her ratings have plunged from 10m to fewer than 6m. Hewitt, now 85, watched them tumble and told an award ceremony that it was the end of an era. "There are no more