Courage!
Somebody pulled my tail!
Posted on 09/06/2006 12:23:48 AM PDT by raccoonradio
CBS is spending $15 million a year on Katie Couric. That comes to $7.5 million per shapely leg.
The new CBS anchor flashed her gams just a few minutes into her debut on the “CBS Evening News” last night.
Couric opened strong.
After a taped voiceover introduction from Walter Cronkite, Couric segued to stories on the Taliban’s growth in Afghanistan from correspondent Lara Logan and President Bush’s warning about complacency in the war on terror.
Then it hurtled downhill.
Couric interviewed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, asking him to essentially translate what Bush had just said. Just a little chit-chat about the war on terror over a coffee table.
The camera framed Couric, chic in a white jacket and dark skirt, in a sultry position as she listened to her guest.
“Are we safer now?” she asked. Viewers across America were probably thinking her legs should be registered as weapons of mass destruction.
Is it sexist to be talking about an anchor woman’s appearance? TV is a visual medium, and a lot is riding on Couric’s new role. She is the first solo female news anchor for a weeknight network news programand CBS is expecting she will bring younger viewers to the third-place news program. Too bad somebody made the decision it was necessary to play up Couric’s assets over her intellect.
You never saw Dan Rather’s biceps.
After rushing through some headlines, Couric introduced two new features. In “freeSpeech,” “30 Days” star, filmmaker and grump Morgan Spurlock warned viewers not to fall for media hype about the state of the union’s divisiveness. In “Snapshots,” Couric reached back to 1949 to show pictures of Prince Charles as a baby.
That wasn’t the only baby onboard. In what passed for an exclusive, she unveiled Vanity Fair’s cover portrait of Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom and Katie Holmes.
“This is proof positive, yessiree, that she does exist,” Couric said.
Sounding like a third-grade teacher, Couric asked for viewers to suggest her signoff. For $15 million the 49-year-old managing editor can’t write her own? A montage of signoffs from across the years included Dan Rather, Ted Baxter and Ron Burgundy. Two of those characters are fictional. Here’s hoping CBS knew which ones.
Couric debuted on a new set with spiffy translucent desk, new credits and theme music from “Titanic” composer James Horner.
As last night’s broadcast demonstrated, CBS is spending a lot of money.
Too bad the network couldn’t dig up some spare change for actual news.
;-)
Viacom's Freston steps down as CEO (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Good grief, she's just a baby, people have them all the time, she's not a princess, not royalty, this picture and this whole thing is so overblown.
Who cares?
The parents are good looking people so the baby has a good chance of being attractive.
She's a major JOKE! She certainly is NOT worth the money she is being paid. I did not and will not watch her "news" (cough,cough) program. Botox city!! And guys,I seen better legs on a piano :)
looks like the kid has a rug on.
Too bad she started her first broadcast with a taliban arranged propaganda piece and video shoot. Note there were no hard questions, just taliban talking points. The rest of the show (before I turned it off in disgust), was just anti Bush DNC talking points. I don't think Katie racoon eyes will last a year.
LOL........
....make no mistake...CBS took a gamble on Katie...and for Katie...it's all about her.....lethal combination for success....
That baby has freaks for parents.
....you're right...more "air brushing" by CBS....again.....
NOW That is funny, LMAO!
At the beginning was a long indepth report about the failure of Afghanistan and Iraq, later followed by a one-on-one interview with NYT columnist Tom Friedman. (I tuned out at that point)
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How many minutes (seconds) of President Bush's speech did CBS evening news show?
The CBS Up To The Minute anchor babe, Meg Oliver is some serious eyecandy too.
Or, "I'm Katie Couric, and I am standing on your last nerve".
0 minutes 0 seconds. I kid you not.
After a taped voiceover introduction from Walter Cronkite…
All the more reason I won’t be watching See BS News.
Re: Katie’s legs - as I look around my apartment complex I see fantastic legs. Katie’s are really mediocre.
Courage!
Somebody pulled my tail!
"CBS is spending $15 million a year on Katie Couric."
And they call us Rubes???
Thanks. I really was hoping that was not the case.
CBS promos the big opening for KC all summer. The leader of the free world makes a major speech 5 hours before the show, and CBS does not share with its 'vast' opening night audience, any of the President's spoken words.
This is the example I am going to use, every time I hear people comment "the President should speak to the American people more."
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