Posted on 07/09/2007 4:48:33 AM PDT by abb
It is the customers (viewers) fault. Typical.
The Six Steps In Any Project
1) Unbounded enthusiasm
2) Total disillusionment
3) PANIC!!
4) Frantic search for the guilty
5) Punishment of the innocent
6) Promotion of the uninvolved
I think Couric is still in living in step 4, right now the viewers are guilty for her failure.
Bull-looney
She should have insisted on an hour and brought her morning set to evening. Spruced it up with dinner instead of breakfast and just sat there on her couch doing the same thing she’d always done.
I’ve never seen Couric on the Today Show or on the CBS Evening News. I think the only place I’ve seen her is on the cover of Charen’s book, Useful Idiots, and articles like this where people are wondering why she’s such a loser.
She whines that people don’t want change. That’s not true. People want change from liberal, biased reporting, which they didn’t get from her. I’ll be happy to see CBS Evening News die. I get most of my news from the internet, anyway. Now that there are alternatives, “journalists” like her are on the way out.
CBS should give Katie:
1. A lifetime contract.
2. Double her salary
3. Big bonuses not based on share of audience.
4. Sign up Rosie to do a five minute closing bashing GW, America, Christians and praising her idols, the al Qaeda Serial killers.
Go Katie! You are doing a great job for our side!
The only way to salvaged her spot on CBS News would be to put her on with an older conservative white guy -- like Bill Bennett.
Katie's too much like the "not so special" single woman at a couples dinner... pair her with a conservative man and the ratings would skyrocket.
It seems that yours is the only post so far that shows a touch of empathy for Katie. I do know that the strangled hold of the left on the television media, has driven some of us to muttered and violent expletives.
For some strange reason (maybe the colonoscopy business), I cannot join a cheering section on her obvious professional trauma. While having absolutely no brief for what these people have done in turning television into propaganda machine, I hope she does not completely blow it.
Better an older, sadder and wiser person, that could try to regain "the common touch"- if she ever had that.
Sinking ship cartoon is dead on. If anyone expected that simply replacing Rather-clueless with Perky Katie was going to keep a sinking See-BS wreck afloat, then they were just delusional.
Me too - - too cruel .
Couric has a sweetness that "feels" of a sheltered privileged life - not the sweetness that comes from a deep and sad awareness of the human condition. It makes her come across as superficial. This experience with CBS News will take the edge off her charm - and off the feeling of shallowness.
She'll grow, but it's a high price. CBS need to pair Couric with the conservative white guy - it'll play to her natural strengths. And it'll open up the show to the 50% of the population that's not liberal...
Replacing one flavor of lefty spin with another is hardly a blow-up.
Wrong person in the wrong job.
No Katie, what we WANT to see is real news reported fairly. What we DON'T WANT to see is you reading a teleprompter pretending to be a journalist, which you are not.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/
“Opening Salvo In Katie’s Campaign To Ease Herself Out Of The Anchor Chair”
Some important reader responses to the New York profile of Katie Couric:
> “The truly interesting thing about the NY Magazine story is that it seems to be the opening salvo in Katie’s campaign to ease herself out of the anchor chair and into whatever her next job might be. Why else would she authorize Nicolla Hewitt to say that the news division was behind Couric the way they should have been?”
> “You missed the lead of the NY Mag piece. Here’s the key sentence, uttered by the news division president!! Hello? Katie’s boss admits her skills don’t work at 6:30pm. Game over. Might as well get the office ready at 60 Minutes. Key quote: ‘Even McManus admits that Couric’s morning-show skills simply didn’t fit into the evening news: ‘A lot of things that made Katie successful in the morning probably don’t work in the evening news broadcast.’’ “
> “In the New York piece on Katie Couric, she manages, in just the first page, to insult the public not once but twice. In addressing her dismal ratings, she notes ‘...people are very unforgiving and very resistant to change.’ She goes on to say ‘I think it bugs people even more that I am not a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown.’ It is apparent she harbors a degree of disdain for the viewing public. It is therefore not surprising it is reciprocated.”
> “Has anyone found it interesting that since Mid-May Katie Couric has been “off” or on “assignment” during 10-15 broadcasts, with either Harry Smith or Russ Mitchell filling in most often?”
Posted by brian | 01:28 PM | Couric Watch | Email this post
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/
If Couric Moves To 60 Minutes... Who Becomes The New Leader Of CBS News?
Theoretically, of course: Amid all the talk about Katie Couric’s future, an e-mailer asks: “Let’s work with the assumption that Couric transitions off ‘Evening News’ after the ‘08 elections, becoming the CBS News equivalent of Bill Cosby, who came in and helped reshape CBS entertainment’s primetime. Who becomes the news divisions Ray Romano: The sleeper who’s out there on the air now, but emerges as the leader, and helps push the news division to the top, like Romano pushed CBS’s primetime to dominance?
Russ Mitchell? Harry Smith? Scott Pelley? Lara Logan? Tracy Smith? Who will emerge in the next two years as the new leader?”
Send your feedback to tvnewser@mediabistro.com...
“Very long article about how Katie will Endure no matter what...”
To Katie, I say “stay the course!”.
And do for CBS News what a band of loser talk-radio-show “hosts”
have done to Air America!
I agree. She's doing the Lord's Work at CBS - putting them out of business.
I’m going to go out on a limb here. After the 08 elections and they put Katie out to pasture, CBS may very well pull the plug on the CBS Evening News.
You heard it here first.
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“The Return Of The Less Than Incredible Shrinking Woman”
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