Posted on 09/12/2006 6:18:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
A week ago Katie Couric was a news superstar. She blew away the competition in her debut last Tuesday. And if you missed a chance to see her, you have only yourself to blame. CBS turned itself into the Couric Broadcasting System.
CBS
Last Tuesday Katie Couric was the darling of television news. But now? But now the early returns have people wondering if the network didn't overplay its hand. Couric debuted as new anchor of the nightly news with a bang, handily out-polling NBC and ABC. But her numbers have fallen steadily since and the Drudge Report is saying that by Friday she'd dropped to third place.
Some slippage is to be expected, of course. Couric's lid-lifter was covered by everyone but Feed and Grain News. You almost had to tune in to see if she was able to sit at a desk and read a teleprompter at the same time. (She can, by the way. Apparently she's been practicing at some morning show on another network.)
But this drop, baring some statistical oddity, is steep. And it raises the question of whether CBS overdid the "All Katie, All the Time'' overkill and also is makes you wonder about the new, fluffier CBS evening news.
You certainly didn't have any problem getting a chance to see Couric's work. She made her debut as anchor of the nightly news on Tuesday, followed that up with a prime time special on Wednesday, and basically took over "60 Minutes'' on Sunday night. And next Sunday she'll join Boomer Esiason and James Brown on NFL Today to discuss Terrell Owens and his inner child.
Just kidding on that last one -- I think.
Couric drew a stunning 13.6 million viewers her first night, enough that her drop to 10.1 million the second night
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I could have predicted this. Katie is a loser. She was an idiot to take the job. The Empress is wearing no clothes. LOL
This could be the nail in the coffin for the Age of the Vastly Overpayed Teleprompter Reader.
(1) 1968: During the Tet Offensive, Walter Cronkite rips off the mask and becomes a full-time booster of the Viet Cong.
(2) 1981: CBS replaces Cronkite with the mentally disturbed Dan Rather.
(3) 2004: Rather tries to change the outcome of a Presidential election by foisting documents he knew to be forged on the American public.
(4) 2006: CBS replaces Rather with Katie Couric, a rapidly aging yuppie sex symbol.
Katie's new sign off phrase: Good night and thanks for watching Mom and Dad.....Dad?...DAD?
Katie's slip may be showing -- but we've seen worse.
Nothing to comment on. I have already in earlier posts said Katie Couric was going nowhere. CBS, like all the mainstream media does not have clue. Liberalism is dying and id becoming more passe as each day passes.
Really, it's the audacity of the media's hypocrisy that's stunning.
Let's start a pool on which head will roll first over @ SeeBS to make up for her salary.
"She was an idiot to take the job"
I agree with just the first clause of that sentence.
;^)
Please DO NOT start with the Heln Thomas photo's.
Pleeeeeeeease...
I tuned in just to see what kind of a crappy job she did. Her first night doing a nightly newscast met all my expectations of a dull news program.
Or the bronzed stool of "Baby's first bowel movement".
You need to put the ratings in perspcective. ABC got 13M viewers for the "Path to 911" and CBS got 10M viewers for the excellent French documentary about fireman and 911. I would say that 24M viewers trumped Sunday night football big time. Couple that with scores of other well made documentaries on 911, and the result is the American people have a pretty good picture about 911 and the folks that were the prime causers of it, Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party!! Clinton does not have one iota of political power. Disney/ABC did nothing for all his ranting and raving. Clinton, no matter what the MSM spins, is passe, and his legacy will be about the murderer of American innocents and military personnel and the POTUS that did do one thing to protect America and Americans..
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