AP's Dave Bauder reported this morning  that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric would be leaving that post. An exact departure date was not announced, but Couric's contract with CBS News is set to expire on June 4, 2011, although Bauder suggested that if Couric strikes a deal with CBS for a syndicated daytime talk show, she might stay on temporarily if there was "an extended search for her successor."

The Media Research Center has just updated our "Profile in Bias" recounting the liberal slant that Couric promoted as CBS Evening News anchor. (An earlier report covered the bias she conveyed as a longtime co-host of NBC's Today). Here are some of the choicer examples from her disastrous tenure at CBS: