I keep "hearing" her patent ambush...."Some people say that you......"
News for women who feel like they need to vote Democratic.
She's retiring?
"The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for -- they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter,"
Let's see, the Ted Baxter character was a creation of the old Mary Tyler Moore show, which brought us among other things:
1) The odious, hateful secular pig Ed Asner.
2) At least one episode lionizing the leftist anti-American, anti-military liar Walter Cronkite.
Very apropos choice perkette Couric...
We will just have to wait and see how she does. I probably won't watch, but I will find out just how much she is going to change the corrupt news organization from FREEPERS. If she does indeed try to improve than I will give her kudos, but until then...I am not buying it.
LOL..
How Pretentious of her!
I dont want Katie, I want a mechanical Ted Baxter.
Katie Couric will be capable of doing much less damage to the nation as a CBS newsreader. Nobody watches that crap anymore. I predict that she will absolutely crash at her new position - - a complete flop.
The huge audience of women who watched Couric in the morning as they were getting ready for work or sending the kids off to school is not around at 6:00. That's the time when the men come home from work and many women are still in charge of dinner whether they work or not. Plus, the kids are home and they are watching TV.
There are very few casual news watchers anymore - - serious news junkies amd people like us political junkies here at FR get our news from the internet or from a 24-hour cable news channel. The six-o'clock network news program is a dying institution, and it is dying fast. Couric is just in time to help usher it out for good, at least at CBS.
(Tin-foil hat alert: It has crossed my mind that NBC worked a backroom deal with CBS to "Lunden" the Perky One out of the 'Today' show. Getting CBS to offer her the anchor job was about the only way NBC could get rid of her without a public relations problem. Possibly, NBC is sharing her current salary load. Ratings will tell the tale, and if they are as terrible as I suspect they will be, then CBS will "Chung" her out of town and everybody can wash their hands of Katie Couric. /Tin-foil hat alert)
Cue the "Entertainment Tonight" theme music...
ACCURACY,Katie...that's all we want from you.And we won't be holding our breath waiting to see it.
< fast-forward to September...>
Couric at the start of the news: "Good evening. Leading the news today, another American human shield war protestor was beheaded by members of the Iraqii insurgency...
...Eeeewwwee. Gross!!"
Kaka Kouric is adding value to See BS. It's gonna be See &Hear BS.
She is a fool. At best, she has a shot -- just a SHOT -- at earning herself more than a tryout.
I'd think that she could use some friends in the passing generation. I can just imagine how friendly Bob Schieffer, e.g., is going to be feeling toward her after these arrogant remarks.
I hope not. I'm looking for objective, unbiased, unemotional reporting of the news.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
And I'm Mister Rogers, back from the dead.....
She's also planning an end to the era of accuracy... AGAIN!
Ted Baxter would be an improvement over you, Katie.