[DCPatriot]

"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."

I keep "hearing" her patent ambush...."Some people say that you......"

[1Old Pro]

People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box."

It's MUCH SIMPLIER THAN THAT.... People want non-liberal biased news.

[Polyxene]

To quote Edward R. Murrow -- "I can see it now"........
Catie Colonic sitting behind a BIG desk on a somber CBS set. Dressed in black, furrowed brow, somber faced, reading the news in funereal tones. Of course, there won't be any good news.

[varina davis]

Couric is the epitome of pretentious.

[Robert A Cook PE]

OK.


Sounds like more "feel-good" news, ore "people-oriented" news .....

So, it's going to become Oprah-light format ....


More Entertainment Tonight and Hollywood gossip?

[Recovering_Democrat]

"The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for..."

This reeks of condescension.

[runfree]

Katie is just trying to lower expectations. She knows she can't deliver the news with any authority so she spins that approach as "pretentious"...

[norwaypinesavage]

"The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for" said Couric

Isn't this the same as "you're smarter than I think you are"? With an attitude like that, Couric is not long for this job.

[zlala]

People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box.

Oh yeah...says who?

[hosepipe]

[ "The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for -- they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter," said Couric, ]

LoL... You can't make this stuff up... LoL..
If anyone WAS Ted Baxter it was Blather and now COURIC!?...
MsM news is being held hostage by comedians...

[evad]

Connie Chung, Bar-bara Wawa, Catie Couric....next....

I give her 6 months, max!

[Surtur]

I predict that heads will soon be rolling at blackrock. After an initial uptick in CBS's ratings due to the novelty/curiosity factor, CBS Evening News will drop into the lower 5 or upper 4 percent range. Ad revenue will fall below its current stagnant levels and CBS may even drop its Evening News broadcast all together in favor of something more profitable. Former News Division head Andy Heywood has seen the writing on the wall and has split for higher ground. New CBS News Divsion head Sean McManus will pay the price for Couric's appointment to the news even though he wasn't the division head when she was hired. And, of course, Les Moonpie, I mean Moonves, will lay the blame for CBS Evening news at any foot but his own. However, he will still have to face the wrath of shareholders so his head may wind up on the chopping block as well.

Meanwhile, the Today Show will lose share with new host Meredith Viera who just doesn't have whatever it is that will click with the morning audience. Someone at NBC will take the fall for her hire. Probable new host for the Today show within a year is Kelly Ripa. Ripa's young, Viera is what...4 years...OLDER than Couric, aggressive, perky, and she has name recognition, all key elements when NBC begins to look for Viera's replacement.

[Lorianne]

I find Katie Couric very pretentious. Honestly, I don't see the difference between her and other "news" people. Pot, kettle, black.

[Thom Pain]

How about Katie & Oprah as co-anchors anchorettes?

(Sorry, almost forgot my political correctness)

[Libertarian444]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/02/television.couric.reut/index.html

Her final "Today" show had a great showing in the ratings, pulling 8.4 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research figures released Thursday. That tally was the biggest audience for a single "Today" telecast since the morning after the 2004 elections, when 9 million watched..

LOL. The Today show only had high ratings the day after the 2004 Election because conservatives tuned in to celebrate Katie's misery at the election results.

[DocRock]

"they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter," said Couric,"

When I was kid, long before fax machines, my father had a Telex and subscribed to the news alert services from the AP and the UPI. Anytime news broke anywhere in the world, it would come across the "wire". A bell would ring, the Telex would jump to life and the news would thump out in all it's glory before our eyes. We would all run to the machine when the bell rang and read each letter as the noisy machine typed. There were no reporters throwing in off hand remarks to satisfy their views or sarcasm in the voice of a hate filled news anchor. It was mechanical and there was no emotion... just facts. I really miss that old machine and the excitement when that bell rang, but that is why I enjoy reading FreeRepublic these days. I despise the media and their attempts to brainwash the public. Just report the news and let us decide.

[StormEye]

"Before the Q&A, CBS Corp. president and CEO Leslie Moonves told of how he wooed Couric to the network, saying the two would go out for drinks every few years until things "heated up" over the last year and a half.

"We probably drank more bottles of wine on my couch -- don't worry, my wife was in the next room," he joked. "It was a dream getting her here. She's an extraordinary woman and an extraordinary journalist."

Nothing new under the sun here -- just another promotion via the casting couch.

[heights]

[bray]

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.

Translation: Everybody should hate Bush and Republicans as much as we do and I'm going to see that they do!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[GianniV]

Hey Katie, if you "cared" so much, why not report on the millions of unborn babies killed every year in this country and billions of dollars abortion "doctors" make murdering them?

How about the truth Katie?

[bandleader]

Yeah,right!I heard her brag about her"hard-hitting"interviews(except when HildeBeast,etc.etc.,was the subject)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!