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Katie's Tour: Lots Of People Are Saying "I'm Not Home" At Evening News Time
MediaBistro.com ^ | Friday, Jul 14

Posted on 07/14/2006 5:34:12 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

"I think we'll have a newscast that evolves over time," Katie Couric told the press in Denver Thursday, on day four of her cross-country tour. Couric will spend time in San Diego today before heading up the road to Los Angeles for the TCA Press Tour this weekend.

At the town meetings, Couric and potential viewers have been talking about the Internet, among other subjects. The AP reports: "The changes, she said, could include expanding segments and breaking traditional time constraints of newscasting. The network is also focusing on how the Internet can enhance the nightly news, offering a place where people can watch news on their schedule and where the network can add information left out of a 30-minute broadcast."

Couric says: "...Part of it is figuring out new ways to deliver what we do to people so they can get it when they get it, because what we've heard from a lot of people is it's hard, 'I'm not home. I'd love to watch it, but find me a way to do that.'"


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KEYWORDS: ccrm; couric; katieslisteningtour; media; mediabias; sillybustour
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1 posted on 07/14/2006 5:34:15 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
The Dan Rather Legacy continues.......

Best regards,

2 posted on 07/14/2006 5:37:09 AM PDT by Copernicus (A Constitutional Republic revolves around Sovereign Citizens, not citizens around government.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Hey Katie, you might as well sit at a glass desk with some nice short skirts, and just show them your lovely legs. You've got nothing to say.


3 posted on 07/14/2006 5:37:59 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Sean Vanity --- Exciting, Exclusive New Developments in the Duke Rape Case -- BARF)
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To: COUNTrecount

On the contrary, Katie...I AM at home when the news comes on.

I just choose to watch other sources, and so do many other viewers.


4 posted on 07/14/2006 5:39:19 AM PDT by Constitution Day (HeadOn.ApplyDirectlyToTheForehead.HeadOn.ApplyDirectlyToTheForehead.HeadOn.)
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To: beyond the sea

Yeah, in high school she was a cheer leader.


5 posted on 07/14/2006 5:39:29 AM PDT by kjo
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To: COUNTrecount
At the town meetings, Couric and potential viewers have been talking about the Internet, among other subjects.

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She's in so far over her head, I'm guessing she's close to panic at this point.

6 posted on 07/14/2006 5:40:19 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Katie "Queen" Couric will only finish the destruction of CBS News that Dan Rather started. Oh, their ratings will go up for a few days - maybe even a few weeks but then they will go down the cesspool.


7 posted on 07/14/2006 5:40:45 AM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: COUNTrecount
I'm reminded of


8 posted on 07/14/2006 5:42:00 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: COUNTrecount

They are considering moving the Nightly News to 2 pm so that more of their constituency can watch while they get ready for the evening. At 6:30pm they already need to be on the move-- that's right in the middle of Happy Hour.


9 posted on 07/14/2006 5:42:29 AM PDT by RobFromGa (The FairTax cult is like Scientology, but without the movie stars)
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To: proudofthesouth
Katie "Queen" Couric will only finish the destruction of CBS News that Dan Rather started.

Agreed.

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10 posted on 07/14/2006 5:43:05 AM PDT by andyandval
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To: beyond the sea

Heck she might as well do the newscast nude, since there won't be anyone watching anyway.


11 posted on 07/14/2006 5:50:02 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather?)
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To: trisham

See this.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/13/you-can-go-see-couric-just-dont-bring-a-pen/


12 posted on 07/14/2006 5:50:12 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
This is all PR and marketing.

Lots of people are also saying, "Katie, I'd like to watch some news but can't find any. All I hear and see are one-sided editorials." And, "Gee Katie - seems like you get an awful lot of money for just reading to people." And, "Well Katie, now that there's an internet the idea of the 'Evening News' just seems stupid."
13 posted on 07/14/2006 5:54:34 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: COUNTrecount

>"The changes, she said, could include expanding segments and breaking traditional time constraints of newscasting. <

Yeah, she's got to have time for all those recipes and fashion hints.

What a loser.


14 posted on 07/14/2006 5:55:38 AM PDT by Darnright (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: beyond the sea
Focusing on the messenger instead of the message...bassakards. Report the news....that's the job.
15 posted on 07/14/2006 5:55:45 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: COUNTrecount
Couric says: "...Part of it is figuring out new ways to deliver what we do to people...."

More Hyperlinks on her seeBS webpage to Democratic Underground, MoveOn.org, CodePink and ANSWER?

16 posted on 07/14/2006 5:59:05 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: COUNTrecount

17 posted on 07/14/2006 5:59:47 AM PDT by Stallone (Mainstream Media is dead. I helped kill it.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Try just READing the news and keeping your dumba$$ opinions to your self.


18 posted on 07/14/2006 6:03:17 AM PDT by CPOSharky (The biggest greenhouse gas: Dihydrogen monoxide.)
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To: Stallone

Wonderful work.....can you put a minus before the "55"?


19 posted on 07/14/2006 6:06:52 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

See Katie tour.. See Katie break into a cold sweat...

The internet... and flexible time slots.... are phrases that cause the _BS networks to wet their undies. Katie must be realizing that once people have their morning coffee, etc....their not into fixed TV news slot viewing. And she left the waking stupor-coffee slot.


20 posted on 07/14/2006 6:25:01 AM PDT by rod1
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