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No one watches their Evening News, onetime top-ten perennial 60 Minutes hasn't cracked the top ten in years, their lead anchor of 20-odd years is now a laughingstock, and they can't figure who to hire to replace him or how to remake his show. So you'd think things couldn't get worse for CBS News. You'd be wrong.

Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News for the last decade, announced this morning that he's quitting. He'll be replaced by CBS Sports president Sean McManus, who starts in 10 days and, in what might well be a desperate bid by the network to capture some Arledgian magic, will retain his sports job, too.

We'll let Heyward have the last word: "As for my own plans, I do not intend to 'pursue other interests' or even 'spend more time with my family,' wonderful as it is. I am going to remain fully engaged in the media business."

Which is to say, we think: Fuck you, CBS.

Change at the Top at CBS News [CBSNews.com]