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Press Gives Katie Couric the Britney Spears Treatment (It's all about ME alert)
Columbia Journalism Review ^ | April 5, 2006 | Paul McLeary

Posted on 04/05/2006 11:38:40 AM PDT by abb

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I am stunned and amazed. A writer for the CJR actually gets it. He's aggravated that the press has covered this non-story too much. And he's right. He's figured out that part of the MSM's problem is they think the story's all about them instead of the news...
1 posted on 04/05/2006 11:38:43 AM PDT by abb
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Ummm, except the writer said she'd do a fine job, and that See BS will get a ratings bump. These are the dying gasps of CBS News - they know Katie as a rabid partisan and are trying to cling to the leftist market share. Like leftists, their numbers are dwindling. They could use some management talent over there at CBS.


2 posted on 04/05/2006 11:46:22 AM PDT by mallardx
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Methinks there exists the possiblity that Moonves may just want a new girlfriend....


3 posted on 04/05/2006 11:48:28 AM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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So let me see if I got this straight: The MSM thinks the fact that a fawning, leftist, bloviating fool leaving a job at one leftist "news" outlet and moving to another where she will continue to be a fawning, leftist, bloviating fool is newsworthy, is that it!!??

Wow!! I'm not missing much by not watching any of this crapola on TV, am I?


4 posted on 04/05/2006 11:52:34 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: mallardx

From what I have seen of Catie, she doesn't seem to be very bright.


5 posted on 04/05/2006 11:52:56 AM PDT by dhs12345
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IMO CBS just tossed a lot of money down the toilet. They should have thrown Katie in too.


6 posted on 04/05/2006 11:54:00 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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Since when was not being too bright a disqualifier for a news anchor?


7 posted on 04/05/2006 11:56:30 AM PDT by Big Digger (I)
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Hey, he's on to something.. The Today Show should pick up Britney Spears or, maybe Paris Hilton.


8 posted on 04/05/2006 11:56:39 AM PDT by tje
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Katie's bump will last a quarter.

Then she's going to lead CBS news even lower in the ratings than the depths Rather plumbed.

She's shrill, uninformed and bitchy. Like Rather, only a chick.

9 posted on 04/05/2006 11:58:07 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Big Digger

LOL! Good point.


10 posted on 04/05/2006 11:58:34 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: abb

Now CBS can enjoy her awkward flirting during interviews. Lucky them!


11 posted on 04/05/2006 11:59:35 AM PDT by Saveaplant_Eatavegan
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From what I have seen of Catie, she doesn't seem to be very bright.

True, but she knows how to get what she wants. Katie ran Deborah Norville down like Robert Mitchum runnin' from revenuers to get the job in the first place. (While Deborah was on maternity leave.)

12 posted on 04/05/2006 12:03:40 PM PDT by colorado tanker (We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
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Rosie O'Donnell to host NBC's evening news broadcast...

Oprah says "no" to ABC.

Larry King offers to wear lipstick if he can keep his time slot.

< /sarc >


13 posted on 04/05/2006 12:03:50 PM PDT by weegee ("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?")
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CBS NEWS?

Is that show still on?

14 posted on 04/05/2006 12:04:12 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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She'll have good insight into the workings of Queen Hillary's mind.


15 posted on 04/05/2006 12:04:50 PM PDT by weegee ("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?")
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I thought Katie stole Laura Ingram's fiance?
16 posted on 04/05/2006 1:24:43 PM PDT by clawrence3
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I can't wait to see her for the 2008 Presidential Election coverage - you thought Dan Rather was bad!!


17 posted on 04/05/2006 1:25:27 PM PDT by clawrence3
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To: sgtbono2002; abb

Has her comp package been revealed?


18 posted on 04/05/2006 1:26:57 PM PDT by clawrence3
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I hope she learns some of those down home folksy saying that SeeBS viewers have grown to expect.

"Teetotally meetmortally!" - Dan Rather 2004.


19 posted on 04/05/2006 1:27:37 PM PDT by weegee ("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?")
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To: clawrence3

I thought Laura Ingraham's fiance bolted when he learned she had cancer.


20 posted on 04/05/2006 1:28:27 PM PDT by weegee ("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?")
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