Posted on 09/05/2006 5:55:00 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
September 5, 2006 - 08:39
Looks like CBS got itself a two-fer. Katie's not just an anchor - she's a comedian, too!
The highlight of her extended interview with Harry Smith on this morning's Early Show, touting her debut on tonight's CBS Evening News, was her claim that what the "old media" has to offer in contrast with the new media is . . . "integrity and standards."
Couric is apparently a jokester of the deadpan school, managing to get off the line without dissolving into guffaws. This from the woman about to take over the illustrious Dan Rather Forged Document Chair, named in honor of the hoax perpetrated by the old media and peremptorily exposed by that lacking-in-integrity new media. Is the irony lost on Katie that the opening for her job occured because Dan Rather was sacked over the exposure of his lack of integrity and standards?
Would Katie care for a more recent example? Take the way the MSM trumpeted L'Affaire Plame for more than a year, only to bury the story unceremoniously when it turned out that rather than representing a diabolical Bush administration plot to out a CIA agent, an anti-war State Department official was behind the disclosure.
Katie's rib-tickler arose in the context of a chat apparently conducted on Harry's apartment balcony overlooking Central Park. Smith observed that for the first time the Evening News would be available online for viewing at any time. Replied Couric:
"I don't really see it as a fight between old media and new media. I think old media has a lot to offer even if we are old. And I think that some of the integrity and the standards and the great reporting that you find in traditional mainstream media, to give that an outlet in newer technological forms, is only a positive thing for everybody."
Katie will be performing all week - don't forget to tip your waitress!
I dont think it will take CBS long before they realise they threw away a ton of money on this girl.
Contractual agreements may keep her around long after she has tanked.
Couric appears to be as delusional as walter cronkite and dan rather.
CBS, the integrity of our heritage of lies continues.
Of course, merely mentioning the names of Savage or Farah will bring on the usual gang of RINOs and pseudo-conservatives who regard them as dangerous extremists. Seldom do they express a similar dislike of the liberal spew from the MSM.
News is a dirt cheep program to produce. The ONLY way they will dump her is if REVENUE is affected.
If she causes old people to tell tivo to skip CBS, THEN advertisers may notice THEN cbs MIGHT thing about it.
This is why THEY SOUGHT OUT RUSH LIMBAUGH FOR THE FIRST SHOW!
Rush = Credibility
Couric is now a definit lightweight.
Yeah, it's tough for all those MSM outlets to absorb and regurgitate Standard Talking Points of the Day, every day. Great reporting.
She looked weird on the cover of "Good Housekeeping" and your point is well taken.
They were making her look like Katie.
They think their women over 60 want a female newscaster, but most women over 60 are male chauvanists.
Spinning an image is more important and using the mainstream
media to do it is more important.
They send out Condi and Cheyney to keep conservatives happy on Sean or Rush.
And of course they ignore guys like Savage who would really ask the tough questions about any inconsistencies in policy.
Rush once had a conversation on air with former GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie asking why govrernment wasn't going to be shrunk. Gillespie said "that isn't going to happen."
Rush moved onto something else.
As for Katie she isn't she isn't going to last long. The use of different opinions was tried by CNN at the beginning.
They didn't last either.
There is a barrier created by the MSM. The elite politicians and the every day middle class American Joes (like me) are not well connected. Those at the top are trying to see through a fog of what the pulse of the people is. Unfortunately, they look through binoculars issued by a liberal media. Many get an out of phase understanding of what we elected them for.
The biggest problem with the MSM? They no longer recognize right from wrong. They do not acknowledge good and evil. They refuse to put anything in real context beyond how news affects opnion polls and elections. A good reporter would not only give all sides to a story, they would put world issues in historical perspectives. Here is an example of a simple issue that the new media would report that the MSM would not:
The economy is doing well. Tax cuts must be given the largest credit for its progress. Historically, each time the government has lowered taxes, the economy exceeds growth expectations. Fill in details of the economy here past and present.
How much does one have to weigh to read the news off of a teleprompter? ;^)
Evidently the powers that be at CBS don't even trust her to be able to read the news with any semblance of gravitas.
Since I haven't seen a "Big 3" newscast in years, I doubt I'll tune in this evening.
I might however tune in to see her singing her farewell atop the Grand Piano a la Connie Chung.
"I guess actually following the standards comes at some later date."
No, she follows a set of standards already. The standard liberal twist on every story. What she lacks is integrity.
If she sat on a sharpened stake, then stage-hands spun her until she burst into flames . . . I'd watch that.
How can you have integrity and standards when you work for CBS, the "Fake but Accurate" network? Mary Mapes didn't understand what standards were. When asked if she didn't have to prove that her Bush/TANG story was true before going public with it, she said "I don't think that's the standard." Dan Rather still doesn't get it, and neither does Katie.
I'm not going to watch the Couric. But do those who do have to submit to a colonoscopy?
Or is the show colonoscopy enough?
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