Campaigning-Couric ping to Today show list.
Hopefully her ratings will continue to decline and she'll get canned soon. There is nowhere to go for her after the anchor chair, and we'll be spared her idiocies from then on.
I don't like Couric at all.... but this is reaching for a reason to hate on Katie.
I don't think giving a vaccine to an 11 year old that may prevent her from dying of cervical cancer decades later is an endorsement of sexually active 11 year olds.
The main reason to get this is for prevention of cervical cancer, not prevention of genital warts.
I like the NewsBusters site as well, but this is being taken completely out of context IMO.
Is Katie Couric still on tv?
She and CBS are made for each other.
Me thinks Merck got to dear Katie with some green. Yes indeed.
Genital Warts.....spread by unprotected sex.
We've already been through her colonoscopy. If she tries the pap smear thing on TV, I'm calling the FCC.
She can't pay for her own vaccination?
*TEXAS IS FIRST TO REQUIRE CANCER SHOTS FOR SCHOOLGIRLS:
Texas on Friday became the first state to require all 11- and 12-year-old girls entering the sixth grade to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Averting a potentially divisive debate in the Legislature, Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, signed an executive order mandating shots of the Merck vaccine Gardasil as protection against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, starting in September 2008. Mr. Perry's action, praised by health advocates, caught many by surprise in a largely conservative state where sexual politics is often a battleground.
Also found in the New Your Slimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/us/03texas.html