Couric best pick for network news [“Couric is a soldier fighting for women everywhere”]

The Badger Herald(University of Wisconsin) ^ | September 7, 2006 | by Joelle Parks

[johnny7]

It is hard to believe that a nation that prides itself on equality and freedom of speech has not had a female solo anchor of a major network television evening newscast up until now. Tuesday, Katie Couric became the first for CBS. CBS wanted a new look, and they got it. As Walter Cronkite announced: “This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.” She smiled and began with a simple: “Hi, everyone. I’m very happy to be with you tonight.”

The spotlight that CBS has been waiting for has finally arrived. CBS network re-evaluation and revamping via focus groups has created a new news show. Why Couric, one may ask? And the answer: why not? In terms of qualifications, she is over-qualified. She has an interview résumé that includes presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. John F. Kennedy, Jr. even gave Couric the first and last interviews of his life. She is also the longest-serving co-anchor of NBC’s The Today Show and has proven that she is not afraid to fight for what she believes in. After the death of her husband Jay Monahan from colon cancer, she underwent a colonoscopy on The Today Show and created, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and the University of Iowa, the “Katie Couric Effect.” In the July 14 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the group reported that colonoscopy rates nationwide jumped more than 20 percent in the days and months after Couric’s on-air test.

[johnny7]

No no... I knew that was 'Uncle Walt' and a map of Nam. I'm ASKING... what would Rather's background-image be?

[hosepipe]

Les Moonbat should be b!tch SLAPPED for this indignity(Couric)..

[evets]

[hosepipe]

Katies running out of cute quickly..