Posted on 05/03/2007 3:51:18 PM PDT by SmithL
One-third of Americans say they have a negative view of Katie Couric, her personal popularity lagging behind rivals Charles Gibson and Brian Williams just as her evening news program trails in the ratings.
The Gallup Poll survey released Thursday found that 51 percent of Americans said they had a positive view of Couric, who jumped from NBC's "Today" show to CBS last fall.
The poll found Gibson and Williams essentially running neck-and-neck in terms of popularity. ABC's Gibson was viewed positively by 62 percent of TV viewers and NBC's Williams by 59 percent, but that is within the sampling's margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
That also mirrors the competition between the anchors in the television ratings. Gibson began the evening job last spring, and trailed Williams consistently for the rest of 2006. But in the past three months ABC's "World News" has logged the most viewers during eight weeks, while NBC's "Nightly News" won four weeks.
CBS recently hired former CNN and MSNBC president Rick Kaplan as "CBS Evening News" executive producer in an attempt to recover from Couric's stumbling start.
She's handicapped by the number of people — 29 percent in this poll — who explained their negative opinion by saying they simply "don't like her,
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Little Katie Koran was a loser before she ever started...the leftist media does not have much to pick from that is in anyway respectable.
Quick! Somebody get a picture.
It blows my mind that CBS execs ever thought that ANYONE would ever take Katie Couric seriously. She’s too much cheer leader. She’s a coffee table book, not War and Peace.
Rejection of Couric is also a REJECTION OF HILLARY...!
How about: “She’s a cheap .25cal Saturday Night Special, not an M-14.”?
I used to really like her, way back when she first joined the Today Show.
Perky is as perky does, but ugly goes straight to the bone. In her case, ugly is seeping both in and out.
That’s better!
Replace Katie with Rosie. I promise I won’t watch any less than I do now. Is a matter of fact, I will guarantee that I’ll watch 10 times as much as I do now!
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