awww...the happy couple
Posted on 05/24/2011 11:20:15 AM PDT by SanFranDan
It turns out retired CBS News anchor Katie Couric had at least one fan during her failed attempt to lift the network's evening newscast out of the ratings cellar:
Gail Collins, former editorial page editor of the New York Times turned feminist columnist. Collins devoted her Saturday column to Couric’s significance as the first female nightly news anchor: "Katie Couric Moves On."
After hailing Couric’s (of course) "historic Sarah Palin interview," Collins declared Couric a "total success," ratings be damned.
How so? By managing "not to screw things up." (The soft bigotry of low expectations?)From my perspective as a charter of the progress of American women, Couric was a total success.
The first great mandate for a First Woman is not to screw things up for the Second Woman or the Third. On that count, Couric did great. She was under incredible scrutiny and pressure, and she held up her end. There was never a point at which American viewers turned to each other and said: "Well, that certainly didn’t work out
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Girls stick together.
So Katie Couric was a GREAT SUCCESS , huh? By that standard the Officer of the Watch on the Titanic was a GREAT SUCCESS because his rudder orders saved the Titanic from running head long into the iceberg and damaging the bow and the first 70 feet and flooding 2 compartments.
Oh, wait a minute....Never mind!!
“total success for not screwing up”
Can you win the Super Bowl that way??
So CBS hired Couric just to help advance women? That’s big of CBS to lose millions in ad revenue and flush any shred of reputation they had left just to advance such an important cause! Bravo CBS!
Peter Principal defined by Gail Collins.
What? She put their ratings in the toilet. What worse “screw-up” could there be?
Be assured, koolaid drinkers MUST stick together... =.=
Ms. Couric would have been a great success ONLY if TV ratings were like golf scores: Low score wins.
Her reign over the program was, at best, mediocre; at worst, dreadful.
The Peter Principle was first introduced by L. Peter in a humoristic book (of the same title) describing the pitfalls of bureaucratic organization. The original principle states that in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their “level of incompetence”. The principle is based on the observation that in such an organization new employees typically start in the lower ranks, but when they prove to be competent in the task to which they are assigned, they get promoted to a higher rank. This process of climbing up the hierarchical ladder can go on indefinitely, until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent. At that moment the process typically stops, since the established rules of bureacracies make that it is very difficult to “demote” someone to a lower rank, even if that person would be much better fitted and more happy in that lower position.
The net result is that most of the higher levels of a bureaucracy will be filled by incompetent people, who got there because they were quite good at doing a different (and usually, but not always, easier) task than the one they are expected to do.
“There was never a point at which American viewers turned to each other and said: “Well, that certainly didn’t work out.”
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No,that is correct, we didn’t say that.
Of course we couldn’t say that because we are too busy NOT EVEN WATCHING Couric, or any other of the Communist elites, filtering the news.
Katie wears her big girl glasses for a few years and she’s deemed a ‘big success’? Nice work if you can get it.
Feminism has a very low bar.
awww...the happy couple
Collins devoted her Saturday column to Couric’s significance as the first female nightly news anchor
2 words: Connie Chung
first SOLO female nightly news anchor?
2 words: Shep Smith
2 words: Connie Chung
5 words: Knocked off by Dan Rather
Job very well done Katie. Let's all hope you do this well at your next gig.
They can pay the same amount to me to ‘not screw up’.
In fact, I’ll give them a 10% discount.
Then Obama is a total failure.
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