Posted on 07/07/2006 4:15:44 AM PDT by meanie monster
Katie Couric, one of broadcasting’s most respected and popular journalists, will be the keynote speaker for a fund-raising luncheon to benefit cancer research at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center on July 14. The event is co-hosted by KFMB-TV, Channel 8 and CBS News.
Tickets for the luncheon are $150 each; tables for 10 are available at $1,500/table for general seating and $3,000/table for preferred seating. A portion of the ticket price is tax deductible.
In September, Couric becomes the anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.” With the appointment, she becomes the first female solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. She will also contribute to “60 Minutes” and will anchor CBS News primetime specials.
Couric, who lost her husband to colon cancer and her sister to pancreatic cancer, has made a personal commitment to end the threat of cancer and to foster cancer research. Her efforts have generated millions of dollars for cancer research, and she is credited with creating a 20 percent increase in the number of colonoscopies performed nationwide following her on-air colonoscopy, done to reduce the public’s fear of this potentially lifesaving procedure.
In a personal note included in the invitation, she writes:
As many of you may know, cancer has touched me personally with the loss of my husband to colon cancer and my sister to pancreatic cancer. I have made a commitment to do whatever I can to increase awareness, and raise research dollars to help scientists develop treatments that will enable more people to live with cancer and, ultimately, lead to the eradication of this disease. Please join me along with KFMB-TV and CBS News to support the important work of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, where medical researchers are working side-by-side with physicians to bring new discoveries and new hope to patients.
I hope to see you at the luncheon! Katie
My Reply Re: Join Katie Couric at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center benefit luncheon if u ever send me another pic and note praisin katie colon couric i will reach thru ur monitor and choke u,,,,,got it! u will wish u had cancer,,,,,also rick roberts promised me a bumper sticker that sat says "WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK" Well where is it? it was 2 months ago....ass holes,,,,jus remove me from ur gay mailing lying list and have a stinky day..
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With the appointment, she becomes the first female solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast
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I guess by default she will also be the first female to fail as an anchor of a network evening news broadcast.
lol
...who replaced a disgraced cBS anchor who forged documents in order to affect the outcome of a presidential election.
There must be puke all over your screen.
scary wide open eyes.
just baaack away
(funny too, a "special" invitation to BUY your ticket)
CBS news is soooooooooo screwed. The only way they will get ratings is to fake the numbers. CBS is good a fake documents.
This will be the end of the male viewer at CBS.
There is no reason to watch any of the network news programs. Their news is old, days if not hours. There is zero depth. It is fully biased for the left, especially with anti-america couric.
Network news rots the brain.
Morning Meanie.
mornin cobra
not free, $150
she will do her first newscast like a typical feminist. She will be "professional" and manly because she thinks it makes her look more credible. It is already a farce.
She is such a... nuthin.
now that's just funny,,,,rof
"Private donors" ponied up a big sum ($115K?) to have Katie for the commencement
speaker at The University of Oklahoma this year.
Yes, there was some loud fallout afterwards...as in "how did this sh-t happen?".
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