What Katie (Couric) did next: why do they care so much?

The Times ^ | April 10, 2006 | Gerard Baker

[OldFriend]

Nothing on the evening news that we all haven't read on FR hours earlier.

With print media, I often read news that's been online days earlier.

[Barset]

Thanks, Mad.

They are pathologically self-absorbed because there is nothing else to them. They are ill-educated; they don't read or think deeply, and most of them are criminally stupid, vide, Chris Matthews, Dan Rather...Mr. Courage.

When Christopher Hitchens appears on their "shows," it is too painful to watch. They cannot follow him as he walks them from a basic premise through to a conclusion, since logic is an alien concept to them, and the bumps against reality that logic provides contradict the fakery they pass off as news.

Your news readers were required to have studied history, to know geography, to be fairly literate. It was expected of them to have some understanding of what they were reading and not look and sound like a gormless half-wit pawing his way through a seating arrangement for a state dinner at Buckingham Palace.

Our standards are not so stringent. In America we plump for "perky."

Yesterday I posted on the "Sunday Talk Show" thread that Katie Couric's name is known to more Americans than Oriana Fallaci's. Katie Couric's "news" will not be as vital to the West's survival as even one paragraph from one of Miss Fallaci's books.

[Bassfan]

Take it easy with those photos.

Not cute

[MadIvan]

I think there's a difference between our news readers and yours - with rare exceptions, they're not celebrities.

There are a few, such as Sir Trevor McDonald, who has led a campaign to encourage the proper use of the English language. John Suchet, an ITN presenter, also moonlights doing work on Classic FM, and educating the public about classical composers. Moira Stewart is an institution - but she carries herself with dignity and grace.

The closest we have to your type of presenter is Jon Snow of Channel 4 news. But Channel 4 is a channel for left wing idiots anyway.

Regards, Ivan

[Deetes]

BUMER

[Polyxene]

She will go the way of Barbara Walters, Connie Chung and any other feminazi who tried to be an evening news reader. Katie Colonic is so obvious in her lib/socialist/commie leanings, her snarky comments, facial tics and body language will be push that sends CBS over the cliff.

[RipSawyer]

Katie?
Let me tell you about Kaite

I'm sick of Katie

Got that Katie
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It takes about one minute of exposure to become sick of Katie. I prefer to forget her existence. I will never watch her on CBS unless I simply tune in once to see if she can be as horrible at the job as I expect her to be.

[LibertarianInExile]

"Personally, I think there's a fortune to be made by anyone who markets these pictures as a screen saver. It sort of has the same visual effect as when the SG1 team travels through the Stargate."

I can't find 'em, or I would have posted 'em.

[ConservativeMan55]

"Wolf Blitzer’s news show is called The Situation Room, and its main feature is a bank of TV screens just like the real Situation Room. Contributors to his programme are now called members of his “ National Security Council."

LOL

[ConservativeMan55]

I'd never even heard of that show before LOL!

The situation room? Hahaha what station is it on and who came up with that! LOL!!!

[Delta Dawn]

You know, I've been wondering just what it is that Katie could bring to CBS that will turn the news division
around?

Maybe she's gonna do the news topless or something?
Maybe she'll do a five part series explaining the power of the vagina.

Help me to understand, please.

[ConservativeMan55]

Topless huh? LOL!

There's something I would never want to see Dan Rather do!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Well, I don't know if Katie will contribute much to CBS – I have the feeling she won't make any difference.

[Jaysun]

With print media, I often read news that's been online days earlier.

I've noticed the same thing. Our local writers (Huntsville, AL) are decent but the drivel distributed by the AP and NYT is just that.

[ozzymandus]

I particularly enjoyed the little wolf-bash at the end.

[Revolting cat!]

In keeping with the tradition started by esteemed newsman Dan Rather, the new anchor's last word at the nightly broadcasts, will be, well informed sources tell us: "Couric!"

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

Great Pic.

[OldFriend]

I had the New York Sun delivered when they first arrived on the scene. They have some wonderful reporters but fill their pages with stuff from AP, NYT, etc.

I cancelled and told them why.

Cannot tolerate those sources.

[ErnBatavia]

street name: "Foxy"

[fortunecookie]

I've stopped watching, for the most part, the evening news a while ago. As maddening as their leftie slant is, more still was encountering the folks in daily life who hang on and believe as gospel truth every word that came out of Dan's or Peter's or whomever's mouth. So Katie's 'debut' will have little effect on me.

That being said, I think part of the giddiness that has swept through certain people stems from that same giddiness over Geena Davis in her Commander in Chief role. A kind of pro-Hillary swoon. You know, it's time for a woman to anchor the evening news solo, it's time for a woman to play the President on TV, and now, NOW, it's finally time for a woman president, Hillary of course. The time is 'right' for a woman president, and Hillary (what a shocker) just happens to be poised to promote herself as the 'best' choice. These same people scoff at the notion that Condi could fill those shoes. Not that the FOB's in Hollywood would ever portray a competent, conservative woman as president...