Lara Logan better take care.She's a real threat.
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 think Katie hired the doctor because he can get to the "heart" of her problem - help her clear up her brain.
Lara Logan better take care.She's a real threat.
"Worst investment in Media History, worse even than satellite radio hiring Howard Stern! An absolute fortune wasted, with absolutely no change in this week's ratings! CBS News in once again in dead last place..."since when the liberal MSM care about rating and profit!!!
"Dr. LaPook...."
Hmmmm... Sounds like a good name for the evil doctor in a Leslie Nielson movie.
I"m not surprized ping
Sounds like Katie pulled this hire out of her a$$.
Katie's own Butt-gate.
Hey, she IS "perkier" than Katie!!
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose the perkist one of all?"
so asks Katie Couric.
Liz honey, learn from this that loyalty to a viper is suicidal.
LOL You beat me to it!
There were plenty of earlier reports that Perky Katie was a b*tch to work for. When she says "Jump," you don't even stop to ask how high. She needs to show all her subordinates and colleagues who's the boss.
I imagine this will only be the first undeserved shakeups. As already suggested, this is kind of like hillary and the travel office.
I'll bet Katie throws lamps and ashtrays, too.
Fox should hire this woman. Anything would be an improvement over "Dr. Manny," the paunchy doctor who has never told the audience anything they don't already know.
Did this really happen?!?!?!
What on Earth could they show that wouldn't be disturbing?
E! was reporting just yesterday how great her ratings were. Don't they keep up on a weekly basis?
God, the poor man, to have actually seen Katie's butt! Maybe we've stumbled on a new way to interrogate terror suspects!
You might reconsider that Couric may be the second worse investment in Media History. (See logo above)
The most interesting things about the media is that the most popular person on the radio is a conservative and on top of that he's beats the pants off of everyone else and he's DEAF!
OH MAN IS THAT FUNNY!!!!!!
LMAO.......
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