One excuse after another. It's not about the ratings; it's about journalism.
Sure it is...
To: toddlintown
I have only watched Katie a couple of times at this job but she is terrible at it. All of the things that she did well in the morning show had to do with acting happy (and perky) and having a good time. The serious Katie, reading the news is a bore.
2 posted on
09/12/2007 6:03:05 AM PDT by
Ditter
To: toddlintown
Katie Couric is Ratings Drag for Iraq There, I fixed it.
3 posted on
09/12/2007 6:10:19 AM PDT by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
To: toddlintown
Iraq Katie Couric Is Ratings Drag for Katie Couric
4 posted on
09/12/2007 6:10:37 AM PDT by
Stallone
(Free Republic - The largest collection of volunteer Freedom Fighters the world has ever known)
To: toddlintown
Katie couldn’t give away free beer in a frathouse.
To: toddlintown
The biggest Blood Dancer on the planet has finally overused it.
bout time.
10 posted on
09/12/2007 6:27:18 AM PDT by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: toddlintown
U.S. Open coverage deflated their ratings?!?
It could never be the quality of the product they are selling.
11 posted on
09/12/2007 6:43:54 AM PDT by
EricT.
(The tree of liberty needs to be watered...)
To: toddlintown
Katie is in over her head. Cuteness doesn’t count in the world of ideas........
12 posted on
09/12/2007 6:44:04 AM PDT by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: toddlintown
The only people who thought it was a ratings “stunt” (potentially leading to higher ratings) were Mcmanus and Kaplan. Everyone else knew it was taking a badly rated show out of its safest, most secure element (the Crockite-defined studio) and placing it in a decidely unperky and ill-fitting place (for Ms. Katie).
A real shot in one’s own foot. But then again, that is what CBS News does best. Rather pitiful.
13 posted on
09/12/2007 6:51:37 AM PDT by
rod1
To: toddlintown
It only makes sense for her ratings to sag when she visited Iraq...her audience is composed of truthers and left wing nutters...anything that’d suggest differently than their rabidly held views isn’t going to be met with enthusiasm.
15 posted on
09/12/2007 7:58:23 AM PDT by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: toddlintown
I didn’t realize she need another drag on her ratings! Good job, Katie! You go girl! /sarc
;>)
17 posted on
09/12/2007 8:29:51 AM PDT by
Primetimedonna
( It's SAN FRANCISCO, not Frisco. Charter member of the Snowflakes)
To: toddlintown
I watched the MSNBC “as it happened” 9/11 yesterday. Katie was the anchor, although you never saw her.
I was quite surprised in that she wasn’t bad, she did have a journalistic presence of mind. But 9/11 on the day was not something you could editorialize and make an idiot of yourself doing do.
If Katie could just restrict herself to the truth, reporting as it happens without lib bias, she probably would be ok. But I think anything produced by the MSM is totally incapable of that.
19 posted on
09/12/2007 12:21:26 PM PDT by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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