Posted on 06/02/2006 9:50:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Couric Compares Male Anchors To 'Ted Baxter'
POSTED: 11:57 am EDT June 2, 2006 UPDATED: 12:12 pm EDT June 2, 2006
In her first appearance at CBS, former NBC personality Katie Couric took some shots at "pretentious" male network anchors - and the "Today Show."
Couric appeared at a convention of CBS affiliated stations in Las Vegas in Thursday.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Couric said evening news audiences "don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter," referring to Ted Knight's stuffy character on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show." "People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box."
The Reporter also said that Couric said the "pretentious era" of evening-news anchors was going to end.
Among the current and past news anchors possibly alluded to by Couric are ABC's Peter Jennings and Bob Woodruff, NBC's Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw, and CBS's Bob Schieffer and Dan Rather.
Next week, respected newsman Charles Gibson takes over as ABC's solo evening anchor as Woodruff recovers from wounds suffered in Iraq.
In the same interview session with Lesley Stahl, Couric said "as much as I love doing 'Today,' there's only so much I could do -- only so many interviews about hormone-replacement therapy and so many fashion shows."
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"The effable Eva Braun of morning television", what WILL we do without you?
I for one, will celebrate Katie Kolon's new gig by taking a great big ol' dump, and flush twice - it's a long way to Black Rock.
We need John Cameron Swayze's "Camel News Caravan" back.
In other words, a female clueless version of Ted Baxter.
Ted seemed to know he was Ted on the show. Katie Cupcake does not know.
"People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box."
Well that counts Couric out.
She obviously has a crush on herself. Oh, and her taste sucks too.
Another (conservative) Eagles song, pertinent to Dims:
"Get Over It".
Where's Chevy Chase when you need him?
Katie, you ignorant slut!
Gee, and I thought Katie Couric was merely Ted Baxter in drag..... the same vapid self-importance, arrogant condescension, mindless bluster.... I really think that anyone living in her glass house should not be throwing stones at other broadcasters.
It's like watching "Sex and the City", but without the sex... or the city.
Gee, I always heard it as "comes on at five". Guess I should surf lyrics.com more often...
That is the lyric. It's also by Don Henley, not the Eagles. (Yes, he was one of the Eagles, but this was a solo song of his.)
SD
Now there's an idea I could get out in front of!
Ms. Couric thinks that people want to hear her talking about herself.
They also don't want the bubbleheadd bleach blonde that comes on @ 5. Tell us of the plane crash with a gleam in her eye! Its interesting when people die, give us Katie Couric!
And I compare her to Debbie does Dallas star.
Right you are. I think I was about 8 when that show was on, so please forgive me.
Wrong. Sue-Ann Nivens was Martha Stewart
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Dan Ackroyd.
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