Posted on 08/28/2007 8:30:28 PM PDT by World_Events
NEW YORK -- Katie Couric, who will mark her one-year anniversary as anchor of "CBS Evening News" next week, is embarking tonight on a 10-day trip to Iraq and Syria, the first network evening news anchor to visit the war zone in six months.
It will be Couric's first visit to both countries, and the network plans to devote substantial air time to her coverage, with 16 stories by the anchor and chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan slated to run over four days. Beginning Tuesday, Couric will anchor the broadcast live from Baghdad for two nights and from Damascus another two nights.
CBS executives declined to provide other details about her travels, citing the U.S. military's request that the network withhold specifics about her movements for security reasons.
Iraq has been an especially treacherous terrain for journalists, including some high-profile television correspondents. Last year, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff was nearly killed and his cameraman Doug Vogt was seriously injured as they traveled in an Iraqi personnel carrier north of Baghdad. Four months later, a car bomb in a Baghdad neighborhood killed a CBS crew and gravely wounded CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier. And last week, Anwar Abbas Lafta, a translator for CBS' Baghdad bureau who would have worked with Couric during her visit, was abducted from his home and murdered.
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She could entertain them with an endoscopy.
I hope she ends up being the sex slave of some big fat hairy Imam.
Maybe Iran would want to "detain" them to bargain for the Iranian spies, saboteurs, and weapons smugglers we have caught in Iraq.
Why doesn’t she go to Gaza, Darfur or Somolia?
For the love of Pete. Don't go there!How many "journalists" did they list as being killed or injured? Five or six? Hell, four "journalists" died when their helicopters collided over Phoenix a couple of months ago.
I know, I know, technically speaking helicopter pilots are not "journalists" but neither are cameramen, sound men and other "crew" cited in the article.
Ptuh!
Have watched c.bs news a total of one minute since she became anchor. Just long enough to grab the remote.
Would be funny to watch how she is accepted by our soldiers.
Would bet the farm they won’t treat her like missed family.
Katie Couric,...embarking tonight on a 10-day trip to Iraq and Syria...
Why Syria? Will she be looking for those stashed WMDs ??
She had better pray that Israel doesnt decide to take action against Syria and Iran while she is there.
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