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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I wonder what Pookie has to say about this "daily toon?"
Colo-Rectal Neoptism
Jonathan LaPook = Mary Mapes 2.0 ?
Golly, this is so Klintoonian!
Hey, that's Doctor Pookie to you Bub....
Bingo!!!
Shes certainly prettier. Network jobs at her level are dog eat dog. Couric didn't get to where she is by being nice.
I could see her replacing Juliet Huddy on Fox News. She's cuter and not near as irritating
I'm just waiting for one of her tanturms... like the one she threw in 2000, (well I guess we lost). ;) Anyone that tightly wound is bound to go off sooner or later.
Now that is an understatement. Whew hard to keep your mind on the news looking at that face. Make you wanna watch cbs, and come away saying, "whose katie?"
What a heartless b*tch...and her prima donna act is only in 3rd place...LOL
Also correct insight.
And the funny thing is, this dumb-ass doctor wouldn't have "tens of thousands of dollars" to contribute to Democrats if we ever get Hillary-care.
LaPook---------------------------La Much Better Looking Than Katie so she's LaGone.
"Dr. J. LaPook" ... is this a joke?
There, isn't that much better?
And I bet Kaledin as so excited about Katie coming to CBS.
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