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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So CBS has finally decided to blow her up.
Good for them.
Hmmm...how convenient for CBS.
Wake me when it’s over...
No!! Not a third post on the same title! Argghh!
Wouldn’t it be just terrible if she caught a bullet between the ears while reporting live back to the states? Oh, how sad the nation would become...
Yes, Yawn … can’t wait for her (fare and balanced) report.
NBC’s quest for better ratings.
Ooops, I meant CBS.
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Katie would be great at entertaining terrorists. Wonder how she would do? Her camera crew could film the entire incident.
The big question looms...will she wear a burka?
Maybe she can put on a burqa and anchor the Syrian Nightly Nooz.
But really; she is not going to like this. . .being around all our Military. Probably gets a chill; just thinking about it. But I hope she stays safe; and appreciate that CBS is sharing little so as to protect her security.
(Of course, if it were secret troop movements they could disclose for a 'ratings bump'; that would be just fine.)
I'd rather watch 365 different ordinary American read the news, a different one every night and each could get paid about $37,000.
Way better ratings to boot.
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She must be trying to avoid the “firing squad”.
Burka? Her orders from CBS are to go out wearing really short skirts and crop tops and talk to the local imams.
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