Posted on 09/13/2006 11:01:15 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Katie Couric has been on the job at the "CBS Evening News” for little more than a week, but changes are already being made on her show – a doctor with ties to Couric has been hired as medical correspondent, replacing veteran Elizabeth Kaledin.
The new face is Dr. Jonathan LaPook, a Manhattan gastroenterologist who helped arrange an on-camera colonoscopy for Couric on the "Today” show in 2000. ~snip~ Kaledin had covered the network beat for CBS since 1996.
"The thing I’d feel most comfortable saying, which is the truth, is that I am heartbroken by the loss of my job and have spent 20 years working to get to this point, only to be replaced by someone with no journalistic experience only because he’s a doctor,” she told Rebecca Dana of the New York Observer.
"I have worked incredibly hard from the smallest markets in TV to get to this point . . . My reporting career is unblemished. I’m well liked. I work hard. I’ve been loyal to CBS.”
But Dr. LaPook is close to Couric, whose husband Jay Monahan died of colon cancer and who founded the Jay Monahan Cancer Center. LaPook is a member of the faculty at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and the Monahan Center is affiliated with his department there.
Dr. LaPook is the son-in-law of Norman Lear, creator of CBS hits "All in the Family” and "Maude,” and has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates.
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She IS getting ugly, watch her mouth. They will need tons of plaster and makeup to keep her wrinkles purkied.
She could receive the "Billy Dale treatment".
Yikes,those were my thoughts also. Katie having a Mammo,or in the stirrups at dinner time,could it be a new Diet Plan? I know most people would hurl for a decade after witnessing that spectacle. That could be better for overweight people than dangerous Gastric Bypass.
She has the telltale wrinkles of a Smoker's mouth,or someone that uses a straw to drink by too often,or..........Never mind,we won't go there.
Just look at her perky face....same difference!
She's a smokin' hottie
Does Fox have a set person covering medical issues? If not, here is one well qualified for their standards. As for her replacement, as a gastroenteroogist he's well qualified to ensure their news input is sufficiently acidic and their news output is...
I think Lara's job is safe. She's been firing off pro-Taliban puff pieces over in Afghanistan.
a Manhattan gastroenterologist who helped arrange an on-camera colonoscopy for Couric on the "Today” show in 2000.
I'm 'sort of' glad I missed that show.
What struck me was how her elocution and pronunciation belied the image of an erudite national news anchor, and revealed more of an undereducated and simpleminded Valley Girl.
For example, she said "goverment" a couple of times, omitting the first "n" sound.
One gets the impression that Katie Couric would be much more comfortable in a shopping mall than in a library.
(And she'll be preaching to her viewer(s) a variety of social instructions on how to live their lives and vote.) Ugh.
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Speaking of embarrassing/funny names....there was once a 2nd grade teacher in our local school system named Mrs. Pussy...I kid you not.
My dad had the same experience. His secretary dropped a note on his desk on two different occasions. One was "Mr. Pussy" and the other was "Mr. Buzzard". In both cases the caller was waiting on hold. What fun to contemplate how you will pronounce the name without offending the caller.
My wife once worked for a credit check agency. Her favorite client name was "Love Lee Pitts". Parents can be cruel.
My aunt's given name was "Elsie Patricia Edwards". She was always called "Pat" to avoid conflict with her mom "Elsie". When she turned 21, she marched right down to the courthouse and had her name officially changed to "Patricia Elsie Edwards". She announced that change with pride at the dinner table. My dad couldn't help noticing her new initials "PEE". Smooth move.
That is a nice picture/smile.
LOL
LaRight.
That girl is a turn-on.
She's downright beautiful and very clean looking. On the other hand, Katie's been wearing so much eyeliner she looks like the raccoon outside my back door.
Is Katie or BaBa WaWa the Queen of Mean?
"HOw soon till Katie has Tom Cruise on trying to boost her ratings?"
Maybe if LaPook looks up Tom's butt?
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