Posted on 06/02/2006 6:54:37 AM PDT by DCPatriot
LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Katie Couric hopes to bring a "humanistic, more accessible" approach to her job when she takes over as anchor and managing editor at "CBS Evening News" in September, she said Thursday.
Addressing the annual convention of CBS affiliates, Couric predicted that the "pretentious era" of the evening-news anchor is going to be a thing of the past.
"The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for -- they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter," said Couric, whose last day as co-anchor of NBC's "Today" was Wednesday. "I'm a serious, caring, compassionate person. I hope that comes out. ... People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box."
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I hope not. I'm looking for objective, unbiased, unemotional reporting of the news.
OH, her being the CBS news anchor will probably work, it's the CBS news that won't.
The "evening news" is the eight-track tape player gerryrigged into a horse-drawn buggy. Neither eight-track nor buggy have much of a future.
Aha! So she won't be a *mechanical* Ted Baxter, but a living, breathing, flesh-and-bone, actual and in fact Ted Baxter! Now I understand this article. :D
You said (in part): I keep "hearing" her patent ambush...."Some people say that you......"
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I hear many interviewers using this technique. The first response of the interviewee should always be: "Some people? Who, for example? You?"
Wouldn't you have just loved to hear Laura Bush say that to her when she ambushed her at the White House?
I give her six months before CBS starts dusting off the moth balls on Dan Rather. ;-)
That kind of arroagance is going to set up her up for a "Ted Burgundy" moment when the news crew slips something profane on her teleprompter.
Wow, I didn't know CBS evening News was still on the air. Not having TV, it's not really relevant to me, but I thought Dan Rather killed it.
Why not?
I read an article once where the author said he loved the local news. He could tell by the faces made by the news babe how he was supposed to feel. When she smiles and is all bubbly, it's good stuff, and then she sort of pouts and he knows, uh oh, this is a baaaaad story coming up.
All televised news is not to be taken seriously. Yes, even Fox.
Yes, but sadly, Laura Bush has too much class. Now *I* on the other hand totally lack class.
;^)class.
Naw...we both have class up the Whaazoo!!!
Not a surprise that Couric has it exactly backwards.
We want just the facts. We DON NOT want the anchors slant on things.
The MSM is so clueless.
I dumped my set in 1997. To be fair, if I were a sports fan it would have been impossible.
I do have a monitor though. We use an Epson projector to watch netflix movies - although we just cancelled that membership. We just haven't the time and find that there just are not enough movies out there to waste time watching.
We used to get an occasional stinker, but we found ourselves, more and more, turning movies off before they had completed.
But I digress.
When you have been away from the tv news as long as I have, when you ARE exposed to it it is high comedy. I just cannot take it seriously. They talk to the viewers like my second grade teacher talked to me.
This frog jumped out of the slowly heating water, and over time noticed it was DANG HOT even when I jumped out.
Bill Clinton hopes to end "dishonest era" in politics.
George W. Bush hopes to end "inarticulate era" in public speaking.
Osama bin Laden hopes to end "violent era" in interfaith relations.
Michael Moore hopes to end "obesity era" in public health.
William Jefferson hopes to end "corrupt era" in Congress.
"Translation: "I'll produce higher quality fake documents so the pajama brigade won't be able to expose me as a fraud as easily as they did Rather."
Haha. That's what she thinks.
>>Couric hopes to end "pretentious era" in news
Bill Clinton hopes to end "dishonest era" in politics.
George W. Bush hopes to end "inarticulate era" in public speaking.
Osama bin Laden hopes to end "violent era" in interfaith relations.
Michael Moore hopes to end "obesity era" in public health.
William Jefferson hopes to end "corrupt era" in Congress.<<
Did they all sign a suicide pact? :)
>>She is way out now in the deep end of the pool. <<
But I'm told she's "cute". What more could I want in a tv newscast, other than really neat video of course.
I have every movie channel and you're correct...it's a lot a crap.
I mean how many times can you watch Day After Tomorrow, I Robot, Tombstone and Independence Day???
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