Couric Helps Flush CBS Down Toilet

Newsmax ^ | April 5, 2006

[freedumb2003]

So how is this different form what Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, and Schieffer have been doing?

They weren't artificially "perky."

[KillTime]

I agree; these are thankfully the waneing days for Couric. After a few weeks of probable high ratings she will plumet to eventually be taken off the show in roughly a years time and end up like Connie on a "where are they now" snipit.

[desherwood7]

Within no more than 5 years, CBS evening news will be off the air.

[El Gran Salseron]

Six months? When the ratings go even further down it won't take that long.

[bray]

So you think her viewership is going to sag too??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Theresawithanh]

"Discussing Time magazine's Person of the Year issue, which honored the American soldier, she told editor Jim Kelly: "Tell me why you all decided to honor the American soldier? Wondering why there's no woman on the cover, too?" Kelly pointed to the cover and said: "This is a woman." Couric: "Oh, there you go, oh sorry ... I couldn't tell because of her helmet."

LOL! Her perkiness ain't known for her brains, is she? Didn't watch the Communist Broadcasting Station evening news before Katie, and for sure won't watch it now.

[khnyny]

"Shes a mean little marxist to the core. It will come through the tv the first week shes on the air. This will be the second worst business decision ever made. "New Coke" being the #1."

Lol, "new coke" - brilliant, wasn't it? Katie's just an idiot too and that will come through in the first week.

[Rider on the Rain]

Shes a mean little marxist to the core.

I knew she was a marxist elitist but didn't realize how mean she was until recently. I hope you're right about how it comes through.

[LK44-40]

I think that Cronkite was the biggest liar of them all

Actually, Katie has quite a lot in common with Walter: They are both showbiz personalities elevated, without real journalistic achievement, to a sham position as newsreader to the nation.

Walter had a sonorous voice and an avuncular look. He was a Ted Baxter who pulled it off. Katie is...well...Katie is perky. Perky Katie. She was hired on Today for the perky factor. It worked for her, at least in the ultra-fluffy a.m. slot. The network suits are like a ball player who will never change his socks after a success. Perky worked for them in the a.m. so they are trying it in the p.m. Katie is going to the anchor chair for the perky factor just just as Walter was hired for the uncle factor.

Nothing but showbiz.

[operation clinton cleanup]

This will be the second worst business decision ever made. "New Coke" being the #1.

I agree, although I will be watching the first week just for the entertainment value. This Week used to be must see TV on Sunday mornings until they brought in George "Steffi" Stephenopoulis... now it is unwatchable. Katie on the evening news will be a disaster and I will love every minute of it!

[Conservative4Ever]

Shes a mean little marxist to the core

LOLOLOLOL..there are song lyrics in there somewhere. DFU...can come up with something I am sure. :)

[rawcatslyentist]

>"This will be the second worst business decision ever made. "New Coke" being the #1.">"

And yet New Coke did exactly what it was intended to do! New Coke took the bullet when they substituted corn syrup for granulated sugar! That's why it doesn't taste the same anymore!

Komrade Kouric on the fake but assurate network will go hammer in sickle with each other. Maybe this will provoke an enemedia competition to see who can out Commie the other!

Flush twice folks New Orleans is a long way downstream!

[dennisw]

Cruel! LOL

[BJungNan]

Katie has a plastic look to her face. She looks like a phoney. I don't see where every body thinks she's pretty or cute.

It's called plastic surgery

Hemlines, rather than hairlines, are usually the fashion world's focus, but Katie Couric's [above] current 'do may be worthy of special scrutiny. The new bangs she's been sporting on the "Today" show lately aren't just part of a trend - sources said they're about to double as camouflage.

America's Pixie is on the verge of going under the knife for a major brow-lift courtesy of Dr. Craig Foster, the plastic surgeon best known for reconstructing the face of the Central Park jogger, according to sources familiar with the situation.

[SamAdams76]

In this era of internet, issue-driven talk radio and 24/7 cable news networks, is there any particular reason why broadcast television is still insisting upon pissing money away on a news department? I mean, it's not like they are bringing anything innovative to the table. They are just regurgitating "news" that has already been widely reported and disseminated elsewhere. If I owned or operated one of these dying broadcast networks, I'd scrap the news departments entirely and show re-runs of TV shows. At least I'd turn a profit during those time slots that I could use to give myself a bigger golden parachute for when the whole broadcast model collapses around me.

I can't imagine who gets their news from the "broadcast networks" anymore except for shut-ins who can't afford computers and cable TV and the elderly who just don't know any better.

I haven't watched a traditonal "networks news" broadcast since Reagan was in the White House and MTV was still playing music videos.

[bmwcyle]

Kenny Rogers was on idiol last week. He does look like himself any more. Katie will be a different face in 5 years.

[Maceman]

the anchor chair once occupied by the revered Walter Cronkite.

Puh-leeze

[Revolting cat!]

A John Ellis in this morning's WSJ has a bit different take on it. The piece is titled Fatten Before Sale , and the idea is that Les Moonbat is trying to increase the value of the division (which by Ellis' estimate costs CBS $400 mill per annum), and then dump it. Couric apparently has a sizeable following among women viewers who otherwise don't watch the evening news. He hopes they will now.

[ncountylee]

Walter Cronkite was falsely revered only because of MSM's total control of the "news" during the Nam era.

[newfreep]

I agree 1110%!!!!!

I read somewhere the commies lost 50,000 during TET and we lost 1,500. Anyone can verify that statistic?