Mary Mapes is jealous because Mapes has a face that was made for radio.
Maybe Mary can get hold of some memos from Texas to coroborate her theory.....
This only seems to be a back door method for Danno Rather to get in some snide comments. What a sore loser.
Well, I guess that makes it unanimous.
She has a drug test faxed from a Kinko’s in Abilene to prove it.
Actually, I think Mapes is spot on in this instance. No matter how dishonest you are you can’t work in the TV industry for 20 years and not pick up a few insights. She’s absolute right - Katie is uncomfortable to watch and this description fits her to a T.
As bad as Couric is, nobody is talking about the other reality which is that if Thomas Jefferson himself were to reappear and they stuck him in the same time slot reading the same tripe, still no-one would watch. I’m not saying that Couric doesn’t suck, because she does, but the format is dead as well. It’s a double whammy. New media beats old media every time. Deal with it.
Leave it to pMSNBC to give Mapesr a soapbox... Matthews is dragging on Sheehan tonite.
If you really want to see a poison pen column, one of the NY paper’s TV critics did a review of a Victoria Beckham TV show yesterday and it was hilariously scathing. It was written on an Ann Coulter level of poison pen brilliance and was a treat to read. I didn’t see it here on FR although it was posted on Drudge.
I hesitate to agree with Mapes but, on this one point, I can. The few times I’ve seen Katie broadcasting, I’ve felt the same way. Her face is wrong—plastic surgery that shows? I dunno. Maybe she looks uncomfortable. Whatever it is, I wouldn’t watch her if I liked her.
Ms. Mapes’s comments come across as meowing and hissing. What is it about liberals? They think they’re morally superior, but when push comes to shove, they’re as mean-spirited and vile as it’s possible to be.
I guess Mapes wants them to hire the LIAR Rather back!! Couric is UNWATCHABLE but so was RATHER.
And can say with confidence I probably never will....
The drugged hostage look!!....I guess Couric is finally “benefitting” from Rick Kaplan’s production expertise.
I am not interested one iota in what Mary Mapes thinks about anything!
The problem is that there is no real difference between her reading the “news” and her colon video.
If Mapes could only look through the television and see what is sitting on the other side of the screen. The tens of viewers who watched Rather and who watch Couric and Morning Joe, are all either drugged or being held hostage, the fact is the bottom of the MSM sewer of which Mapes is familar has NO free will viewers.
It must be the chair. Dan Rather fit this description as well.