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Very long article about how Katie will Endure no matter what...

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Ping

[camle]

poor thing: from “perky” to “prim”. what’s next? “Prudish”?

[PGalt]

“I think that bugs people even more,” she says, “that I’m not a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

LOL! Don't care if you do, or don't Katie. Never watched. Never will.

[poobear]

Slow burn...

[period end of story]

“The biggest mistake we made is we tried new things.”

And what was that “new” thing Katie? You?

[N. Theknow]

In the early, heady days after her arrival, the news had a chatty, friendly vibe and a bright, casual atmosphere never seen before at 6:30 p.m.

But the same BS came through and her ratings tanked from the initial curiosity factor.

Like people slowing to watch a wreck and then being pissed they wasted time on it because it was on the other side of the median.

[an amused spectator]

I could hang in there for $7500 an hour. :-)

[gridlock]

I don’t care what happens to Katie, personally. As long as she pulls CBS News down into perpetual oblivion, that will be enough.

[JohnLongIsland]

the cbs socialist propoganda show, with your host perky katie. every night it’s a repeat, bush sucks, cheney should be impeached, the us army is dispicable, scooter libby should have gotten the death penalty,algore is the next jesus christ, thank you and good night.

[submarinerswife]

“that I’m not a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Slapping a producer over a word she doesnt approve of is a sane reasonable reaction?

Right.

[Dick Bachert]

In an effort to salvage her sagging CBS ratings, Katie produced yet another special based on her nationally televised, award-winning (the prestigious Sphincter Cup) colonoscopy of several years ago.

Unfortunately, so much of the footage was found to contain images such as the still seen here that it was rendered unusable and the project had to be s**tcanned.

Katie told interviewers later that this is how she spends much of her free time as this is where she gets some of her best program ideas. She cited her interview with Hillary Clinton as a prime example.

[theDentist]

Maybe if she peers gravely into the camera, mouth turned down, eyes narrowed seriously, and says "What up, 'merica?" things'll turn around.

[bray]

Imagine a hard core feminist wouldn’t draw them into DNCBS?? The media is the only business that believes it can insult 50% of their customers.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[ken5050]

Disagree....look, she obviously agreed to be interviewed in a piece that she knew was goign to be about her failure at CBS to date. To me, it sounds like desperate spin control..I think she’ll be gone after the 2008 election...the idea of Katie doing political “analysis” sitting between Bob Schiefer and Jeff Greenfield is hysterical..

[Leisler]

“I think the one thing that I realized, looking back at it and analyzing it, is people are very unforgiving and very resistant to change,” says Couric. “The biggest mistake we made is we tried new things.”

It is the customers (viewers) fault. Typical.

[Smocker]

Every time I see an article about Couric and how others are to blame for the failure going on over at CBS I recall a placard my husband used to have hanging in his workshop:

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.

[xzins]

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.

[de meanr]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

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!

[GOPJ]

Katie Couric has a place at CBS news - she's a liberal after all, and a smart one - but not a place on the evening news. Not alone.

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.