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Katie Couric's Notebook: Endless Announcements
CBS News ^ | Feb.14, 2007 | Katie Couric

Posted on 02/14/2007 9:07:01 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Hi, everyone.

Yesterday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for president. Last Saturday, Illinois Senator Barack Obama did the same.

Why was neither announcement a surprise? Maybe because everybody knows that both these candidates--along with all the others--have been running for months.

And yet, we --the media -- and they -- the candidates -- conspire with each other, and pretend that these announcements are actually news.

The game has been played every election since 1988 and it goes like this:

Candidates announce they're thinking of exploring--we cover that. Candidates announce they're officially exploring--we cover that. Candidates announce they're--quote--"pretty sure" they're going to run--we cover that. And finally, candidates announce that they're actually running--and as you'll see this week, we cover that.

It's a win-win for the press and the politicians...we both get the stories we want. But the public just gets information overload.

That's a page from my notebook.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: katiecolonic; katieklinton; katiekommie; katydid; rottennewsanchor
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What's wrong with her face? Her eyebrows are aimed at her hairline.

1 posted on 02/14/2007 9:07:04 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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she looks like a Romulan
2 posted on 02/14/2007 9:10:30 AM PST by stylin19a
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And yet, we --the media -- and they -- the candidates -- conspire with each other, and pretend that these announcements are actually news.

You mean the media conspires and pretends? I don't believe it.

Do I need the sarcasm tag?

3 posted on 02/14/2007 9:12:09 AM PST by scott7278 (Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Actress Sela Ward has the same eyebrows. The look like they belong on the face of a witch.


4 posted on 02/14/2007 9:14:47 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: COUNTrecount

She ain't that perky anymore. I give her 18 months before she goes on vacation. For good.


5 posted on 02/14/2007 9:15:06 AM PST by MPJackal ("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
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To: COUNTrecount
I wonder if she likes her job?
6 posted on 02/14/2007 9:16:18 AM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Her observation fails to rise even to the paltry level of insight that my posts do. Now, this is a sad day.

7 posted on 02/14/2007 9:16:27 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

And she gets how much a year for writing this drivel?


8 posted on 02/14/2007 9:17:51 AM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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I wonder how she keeps her job.


9 posted on 02/14/2007 9:18:07 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: COUNTrecount
Did she actually write this ?? My daughter took journalism in H.S. and was on the newspaper staff of her high school paper. Her high school paper was better written than this crap.
10 posted on 02/14/2007 9:18:47 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here... move on.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The local CBS station here pre-empted her for weather coverage last evening.I don't imagine they agonized over that decision very long.


11 posted on 02/14/2007 9:19:47 AM PST by Carl LaFong ( Hi !)
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To: COUNTrecount

After her colonoscopy something tightened up in her face.


12 posted on 02/14/2007 9:20:54 AM PST by DainBramage
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I saw her today, I'm really shocked that she did this to her face, what a fool.


13 posted on 02/14/2007 9:23:20 AM PST by roses of sharon
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Sela Ward, age 50, looks very nice to me:


14 posted on 02/14/2007 9:25:40 AM PST by rawhide
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To: COUNTrecount

Katie announces she's tired of announcements.


15 posted on 02/14/2007 9:27:55 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: rawhide

and she was a cheerleader at Alabama......roll tide roll!


16 posted on 02/14/2007 9:29:58 AM PST by BamaDi (George W - my hero! !)
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To: rawhide

House, M.D.: I'd hit it.
17 posted on 02/14/2007 9:32:37 AM PST by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE IRS.)
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Of course he would "hit it", she played his wife, who he is still in love with.


18 posted on 02/14/2007 9:37:51 AM PST by NathanR (Après moi, le deluge.)
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And thus it was the brownie band
Came tumbling into Slumberland.

That's my take. I am more eloquent than Katie while quoting drivel.


19 posted on 02/14/2007 10:13:25 AM PST by sine_nomine (The United States...shall protect each of them against invasion. Article IV, 4. US Constition)
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To: NCC-1701; SevenofNine
House Mad TV Spoof
20 posted on 02/14/2007 10:17:06 AM PST by monkapotamus
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