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  • Rush Commentary To Air This ThursdayPuts Our Views on CBS Evening News

    09/05/2006 11:53:42 AM PDT · by RDTF · 34 replies · 1,941+ views
    Drudge Report ^ | September 5, 2006 | Rush
    BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let me deal with a rumor that circulated over the Internet. It hit the Drudge Report, I forget, I guess it was sometime Saturday or Sunday, the rumor being that I am helping to launch or welcome Katie Couric to the CBS Evening News tonight or this week. The reporting on this was somewhat confusing and sketchy based on how you read it. I had people e-mailing me all weekend long who were taking different things out of it. It's amazing to study this. This is a little aside, but it was an amazing thing to study...
  • Couric hopes to end "pretentious era" in news

    06/02/2006 6:54:37 AM PDT · by DCPatriot · 176 replies · 2,756+ views
    Reuters ^ | June 2, 2006 | Kimberly Nordyke
    LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Katie Couric hopes to bring a "humanistic, more accessible" approach to her job when she takes over as anchor and managing editor at "CBS Evening News" in September, she said Thursday. Addressing the annual convention of CBS affiliates, Couric predicted that the "pretentious era" of the evening-news anchor is going to be a thing of the past. "The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for -- they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter," said Couric, whose last day as co-anchor of NBC's "Today" was Wednesday. "I'm a serious, caring, compassionate person. I...