T1B

what do you think will be the status of
Katie and the CBS Evening News one year after she
takes over the chair of Cronkite, et al ??

You're a Mod, right?

Send yourself to JTR's Synapse Jamboree.

Always cracks me up when the humorless start bitching about thread-killing.

Newsflash -- just because you and Wolfman are boys, it doesn't change the fact he's the most mundane fuck to ever cause a blight on the internet.

...she's toooo liberal to be remotely fair, thus unwatchable!

She get's to sleep in now, bet she's hip to that...

Katie has a special place in my heart. She was there when the 'Sox won it all. Tom Werner told me she gives filthy head.

So I stuck around while she was on the rebound.....
and all I can say is that....

Werner is a fuckin' liar!

Nasty fukkin' junk right there!

F - Could care less

She melts when asked to get dirty by inserting herself into the front lines of our upcoming Iranian Conflict.

I voted A.

Only because talk radio told wolfman to start this thread.

Couric will crash and die, within 2 years. Mostly, because she isn't a journalist. (Uh, hello? If any of you tards even for one second think she is ------------> She isn't.)

But then again, the reason most of the fucking morons in talk radio were talking about this "story," is that they aren't journalists either, and they're afraid of her dick.

Nice job, wolfman.

"Katie" is the keynote speaker for OU's commencement next month, much to the chagrin of journalists in the state.

I'll await wolfman's witty reply about "liberal" David Boren, who brought here there to speak.

E....my own scenario

Katie Couric and I choose 6 weather girls from all across the country to join us in a marathon 'gina spelunking expedition that culminates with KC jumping from my garage roof onto my waiting love torpedo.

I love choose your own adventure.

This thread is screaming for an Anchorman reset...

I think she'll do fine...she's been in the industry long enough. I'll be curious how she does when she has to report something really tragic...ie--9/11. Unfortunately, she'll have many opportunities to test out her grace under fire routine considering all of the weird crap that goes on around the world.

ChargerMike wrote:...she's toooo liberal to be remotely fair, thus unwatchable!

Remove the Hannity-colored glasses and see the world for what it is.



88, are you saying that Jennings, Brokaw and Rather aren't journalists? Are you suggesting that Kronkite was a talking head?

News Hour fan here.

I have seen the new format CBS news a few times lately. It's interesting that it's been rising in ratings under Bob S.

Couric's certainly not unworthy just because Sean Hannity says she is. I imagine that she'll do fine...she certainly has proved herself in the business, the business being what it is.

PSUFAN wrote:News Hour fan here.

rack. A full hour of in-depth news as opposed to 10 minutes of headlines, ten minutes of scaring seniors and ten minutes of drug ads.


Couric isn't worthy to be the face of the news department, but she has been picked to try and change this archaic news format. Programming decision.

88 wrote:Journalism has always been private propaganda (as opposed to state-sponsored public propaganda) that is manufactured and sold for profit.

Which is why the honks screaming about a "liberal bias" will always be wrong. The only bias in network news is towards the bottom line.

88 wrote:Journalism has always been private propaganda (as opposed to state-sponsored public propaganda) that is manufactured and sold for profit.

Not always. High-fallutin' intellectuals got a hold of it and tried to bring some dignity. Of course, they are trying to do something with integrity in a medium with degrees varying from little to none. Medium is the message, I've heard.

Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, I am a professional and I would like to do my job.
Ron Burgundy: Big deal! I am very professional!
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, you are acting like a baby.
Ron Burgundy: I'm not a baby, I'm a MAN, I am an ANCHORMAN!
Veronica Corningstone: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke!
Ron Burgundy: I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.

Cicero wrote:



Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, I am a professional and I would like to do my job.
Ron Burgundy: Big deal! I am very professional!
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, you are acting like a baby.
Ron Burgundy: I'm not a baby, I'm a MAN, I am an ANCHORMAN!
Veronica Corningstone: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke!
Ron Burgundy: I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.

Thank you...

88 wrote:I disagree with your first sentence, and agree with the second one. There is bias in all journalism. It is unavoidable. For years, many of the newspapers and news media outlets were dominated by individuals who tended to agree with the policies touted by the left.

And just as many were dominated by those who agreed with the "right". For every NYT, there is a Wall Street Journal. And don't even get me started on the local newspapers and TV stations, who are all about pleasing the local power elites and preserving their exclusive access. There wasn't a liberal bias, there was a market bias.

Now, there are many successful news media outlets that are dominated by individuals who tend to agree with the policies touted by the right. Both camps claim to report the news objectively and fairly. But neither do.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Probably where they belong. In Hell.

I agree with RF to an extent. Katie Perky is not a serious journalist by any stretch of the imagination. And she's far too much of a lightweight to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

Having said that, America by now is sufficiently dumbed down to the point where that won't matter a whole lot. So my vote is B.

A question for Wolfman...

Do you care what happens with CBS News? If Couric takes hold of it and grits her teeth at right-wingers, does your life change for the worse, somehow?

I ask because either way, I personally don't plan on taking in much more CBS News.

Also, now we have a segment of media that exists to sneer at the other segments. Of what use is that?

This thread is absolutely shot through with the thick musk of Gay.

Couric fits better with the Today Show banality...
* interviewing Dom DeLouise
* touring a tongue depressor factory in Kentucky
* analyzing the intricacies of Brittney Spears' marriage
* previewing the new Spring fashions available at K-Mart

etc.

But who the HAIL still watches the network evening news when re-runs of Gomer Pyle are available?

I thought the Internet killed newspapers AND the evening news?

Shoalzie wrote:This thread is screaming for an Anchorman reset...

I think she'll do fine...she's been in the industry long enough. I'll be curious how she does when she has to report something really tragic...ie--9/11. Unfortunately, she'll have many opportunities to test out her grace under fire routine considering all of the weird crap that goes on around the world.

She's beyond annoying, more than irritating, truly insufferable. CBS news is officially unwatchable--but Letterman has a clear mandate. Ugh!

I really do not give a rat's behind about Katie
or CBS news or any other TV news for that matter--

I just wanted to "stir the pot" --
guess it worked !!

Wolfman wrote:I really do not give a rat's behind about Katie
or CBS news or any other TV news except Fox for that matter--

I just wanted to "stir the pot" --
guess it worked !!

FTFY.

88 wrote:Are you suggesting that the US has a tradition of having journalists read the news on television? If so, I disagree. In my opinion, for the last 20 years or so the qualifications for US news readers have been a distinguished appearance and a decent voice.

No, what I'm suggesting is that Katie Couric is an overpaid telepromter reader/"personality," not a journalist. She wouldn't know a news story if it bit her in the ass.

It will be nice to have all the latest Jessica Simpson updates worked into the CBS Evening News.

From my inside sources: She gets way too many yeast infections, rendering her cranky in the P.M.....Would suggest a handicapper would pencil her in for short term....

mvscal according network news a little respect? I call bullshit.

If CBS can't

I'm very surprised to see you advancing the possibility that they'd succeed under any circumstances. Live and learn