Katie Couric Furious At CBS Suits. She Claims "They Are Stabbing Me In The Back."

To: HeartlandOfAmerica

I'm sure her contract has all kinds of "clauses" including a payoff for "failure". $75 mil is peanuts when you think about what sponsors will pay. Sponsors will dictate the outcome of our "perky, petty, pitiful, picky" Katie. Yes, I think Katie is a "nose-picker". I think I remember her from Seinfeld. :)0

281 posted on 09/14/2006 1:43:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)

To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

I wouldn't know about Rosie, because my gag reflex won't allow me to watch. I know Meredith is liberal. They all are on that program, but I do think she is very likeable and she comes across that way, IMO. Pretty soon everyone will be saying, "Katie who"?

282 posted on 09/14/2006 1:46:45 PM PDT by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)

To: MindBender26

Good insider scoopage -- thanks.

283 posted on 09/14/2006 1:48:29 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)

I don't watch "The View" unless I'm at the doctor's office and I can't get control of the remote, but Hannity has been playing a pro-terrorist, anti-Christian rant Rosie the Hippocrite went into yesterday or the day before. Made me want to renew my membership in the NRA all over again.

284 posted on 09/14/2006 1:51:36 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)

To: MindBender26

Are there any freepers out there who can help me with this -- how much influence do the anchors these days have on the nightly news? Do they choose the lead stories? Do they write their own script? Do they actually gather the news? If they don't like a story, can they kill it? I am wondering whether she is just reading the tele-prompter or whether she is more involved in the news gathering. I know the anchors used to do everything but I don't think they do anymore.

285 posted on 09/14/2006 1:51:45 PM PDT by hankbrown

Should have put the /sarc on! Thanks!

286 posted on 09/14/2006 2:12:11 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)

Plus, they are not going to get nothing for their money. Even if Katie totally bombs, even if CBS Evening News stays in the basement, CBS has gotten tons of brand buzz.

So if they look at the cost of Katie as just an advertising expense, it's not a disaster for them.

287 posted on 09/14/2006 2:14:16 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)

To: CharlesWayneCT

Is there anybody out there who could cut across the ideological divide and be seen as fair by both sides?

I hear Al Franken is looking for work. /s

288 posted on 09/14/2006 2:25:17 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew

To: MindBender26

No matter what happens,she still gets her dough,doesn't she?This is just so much HorseSh*T!!!!!!!!!!!

289 posted on 09/14/2006 2:30:11 PM PDT by bandleader

Hey Katie! Do you still hate black people?

Excuse me, but what occasioned that outburst? Know something I don't?

290 posted on 09/14/2006 2:33:09 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (No, that's the Keninston "runestone")

To: MindBender26

Maybe she can support herself singing in nightclubs.

291 posted on 09/14/2006 2:34:05 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)

To: MindBender26

Rather is working overtime on his new satellite- fed dinky cable show. Editors who have seen first drafts of story treatments say it is WAY over the top, sort of a "Howard Beale on LSD reading Rolling Stone straight to camera, with a Texas accent" concept.

In other words, new network, same old Rather.

292 posted on 09/14/2006 2:34:34 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (No, that's the Keninston "runestone")

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

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Hey Katie! Do you still hate black people?

Excuse me, but what occasioned that outburst? Know something I don't?
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Katie Couric always leads into questions like that where the person really cannot answer back. She dooms them before they can even speak. The above is a hypothetical question she would present to Bush, so I flipped it by asking her that.

293 posted on 09/14/2006 2:38:28 PM PDT by avacado

>Are there any freepers out there who can help me with this -- how much influence do the anchors these days have on the nightly news?

A large amount, but certainly not absolute. Varies by anchor.

>Do they choose the lead stories?

They have influence, depending on their skills and experience. Jennings probably had 99% authority. Brit Hume and Charlie Gibson, 90-95%. Brian Williams, 50% Perky, 30%

>Do they write their own script?

The good ones do. At a minimum, they edit the scripts, sometimes even on the fly as they are reading the teleprompter. But Couric has so little recent hard news experience, she does probably little writing or editing.

>Do they actually gather the news?

No, except when they are sent to a big, very visual story (like the SF earthquake or London train bombings, Sadat and Begin at Camp David,

In addition, they have (or should have) the world's best Rolodexes. Jennings had the direct office, cellphone and bedside telephone number of every king, prime minister or president in the Middle East.

When I was working Asia, I had most everyone's phone. When I was stateside, I had a number of governors' private phones. It also went beyond that. I had the home and cell phones numbers for most airline presidents, some Senators, good doctors, a few Mafioso, NFL coaches, the Archbishops of NY, Chicago and Boston, all the heads of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers and Control Towers at JFK, LaGuardia, O'Hare, SFO, etc., senior DOD people, heads of State Police Departments and Highway Patrols. When the fit hits the shan, it's your contacts that are crucial.

It goes way back. We knew about the Bay of Pigs Invasion from our Tampa contacts three days before it happened!

It works both ways, If they had something they wanted to get out, they had my phone too.

PS. NOBODY had the private phones of any of the Bush family.

>If they don't like a story, can they kill it?

Jennings, Cronkite, Brinkley, etc. could. Rather, Huntley, Williams, probably. Max Robinson, Couric, no, not by themselves, but they would have a bully pulpit.

>I am wondering whether she is just reading the tele-prompter or whether she is more involved in the news gathering.

Gathering, no. Editing, she should be, but probably is not very much. Stories are "made" in the edit booth. Forget the facts, ignore the reporters words, but give me control of the edit booth and I can shape whatever story I want.

She has been stuck in the NY studios waaaaay to long to be objective, or even have any idea what most Americans think.

>I know the anchors used to do everything but I don't think they do anymore.

Yeah, but they get great tables at the good restaurants.

294 posted on 09/14/2006 2:49:56 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)

To: CharlesWayneCT

I expect they have hard numbers as to whether America tuned in to see Perky or Charlie on 9-11. I was watching Charlie and Diane.

295 posted on 09/14/2006 2:52:53 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Freedom of religion means freedom to practice Islam®)

To: BigSkyFreeper

"They Are Stabbing Me In The Back."

I might watch the sign off if she used it.

Last time I watched CBS news was when Dan Blather interviewed and railroaded Bush 41. And stopped the rest soon after. Nauseating.

296 posted on 09/14/2006 2:55:18 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)

To: MindBender26

297 posted on 09/14/2006 3:02:49 PM PDT by gaijin

To: MindBender26

This may sound frivolous, but Couric made a mistake by not asking that she be billed as "Katherine Couric" for the CBS News. (She could have said something like, "My mother thinks I should use Katherine...") What kind of serious news journalist is officially billed as "Katie". That's a nickname, and a diminutive one at that.

298 posted on 09/14/2006 3:07:31 PM PDT by utahagen

LOL !
No I hadn't. Thanks for the link.

299 posted on 09/14/2006 3:19:40 PM PDT by Covenantor (Dirka Dirka Muhamed Jihad.....Ghurka Ghurka Muhamed....it always comes down to cold steel in the end)

To: NativeNewYorker

"Perky's visage still adorns the front of every NYC transit bus."

That's one reason I'm glad I live in DC.

300 posted on 09/14/2006 3:25:11 PM PDT by chs68

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