'Access' Blows Katie Quotes (She WILL Set Foot in Dangerous Places)

New York Post PageSix ^ | July 22, 2006 | Richard Johnson

[COUNTrecount]

"ACCESS Hollywood" expressed "regret" last night for reporting on its Web site that Katie Couric would refuse to set foot in dangerous war zones as the new anchor of the "CBS Evening News." Earlier this week, the NBC-owned celebrity news show's Web site stated: "Katie Couric, who takes over the 'CBS Evening News' in September, told 'Access Hollywood' that at this point, she would not venture into the Middle East hot spot. 'I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't be doing,' Katie said."

[Clara Lou]

Ho-hum. Katie thinks her mere presence could "advance the story." ~yawn~

[The Lumster]

Ah yes - the ever popular "old quote - out of context, clarification" gambit.

a.k.a. - CYA

[AmericanMade1776]

So does this mean the cute little Pixie , Katie Couric, will have to go to the dangerous war zone?

[burroak]

I don't want to get too many thongs in a knot out there this morning, but.....Katie is not the poster child for gender equality in the work force.

Maybe she'll interview some returning GI's and get the ......naw, she couldn't make herself get that close to real men.

[Farmer Dean]

I have no use for Katie at all,but I do understand her position.No one wants to make their children orphans.

[InvisibleChurch]

Why bother being there? Doesn't cbs already have reporters to do the reporting? Isn't an anchor supposed to 'anchor' a newscast? She probably focus-grouped herself and decided she looks Dukakis-esque in a flack jacket and helmet. Where would she put her Hillary '08 button, too?

[somemoreequalthanothers]

But clearly, if it's going to serve the story, advance the story, and be helpful to the story, I would like to be there. I think it really depends on the situation and what's happening."

In other words, if the story doesn't have the necessary amount of leftist spin, she'll need to get involved.

[AmericanMade1776]

I understand too, but don't you wonder why this was not discussed before hand, before she took the job.

[freekitty]

Wonder what kind of deal will be made with the enemy if she goes at all. Katie is hardly credible.

[LiberationIT]

I guess Katie's not the man Dan was (is?).

[Ditter]

I detest this liberal moonbat but I don't blame her for not going into a war zone. Her children come first and I applaud that. She would only be going over there for ratings anyway. There are plenty of other people there to report.

[Farmer Dean]

She most likely didn't talk about it{who really knows}because it could have been a deal breaker.Women reporters don't belong in a war zone anyway.I hope no one tries to tell me that she's a journalist,she's little more than a political hack who reads copy and goofs off to the camera.

[ishabibble]

Katie is not taking over the Martha Stewart show. There was a puff piece up here on FR last Saturday about Katie having the "hard news chops" to make a go of her new job at CBS. One week later, she's using her kids as an excuse for not setting foot in a war zone. Since I can't stand that woman, I am greatly cheered that she would use her own nanny raised daughters to hide behind as it only reinforces her reputation as the biggest phony in TV. Why else would there be this retraction article? How many of those TV reporter have kids? I would guess that many do, and for Katie Couric to even say such a thing, irregardless of when she said it, just shows what a lightweight she really is, and why CBS is going to be so so sorry.

[fml]

I have no use for Katie at all,but I do understand her position.No one wants to make their children orphans.

Before anyone makes her mother of the year, read the rest of the interview.....

Those comments give a very different view of how she feels about being on the front line. "I think, yeah, of course I would want to be there," Couric told critics, according to a transcript provided to Page Six by a CBS source. "In terms of traveling, I think it will be done on a case-by-case basis . . . But clearly, if it's going to serve the story, advance the story, and be helpful to the story, I would like to be there. I think it really depends on the situation and what's happening."

[wildbill]

The proof of the pudding Katie as to whether you are a serious journalist--or a news-reader face--before you right now.

Book a seat on the first plane to Lebanon and interview the leader of Hezbollah in his Beirut bunker.

[HawaiianGecko]

I don't like Katie Couric's politics one bit, but I see no reason at all for an anchor to go to war.  I haven't seen Britt Hume leave Washington. In fact her excuse tells me that she's a bit smarter than I would have previously given credit.

 

[Hazcat]

And the real answer to this is ..... WHO CARES?

[leaky acres mac]

THANK YOU, Well put.

[Armedanddangerous]

Her butt doesn't need to be there anyway. She's an anchorwoman, last time I checked...not a reporter.

She's just a glorified newsreader.