Do you have high hopes for "The CBS Evening News Starring Katie Couric?"

[WI_DEM]

[rfranklin]

1. Strictly infotainment....

The choice of a fluffy morning person is not a good sign. There will be no struggle for journalistic integrity--she's never had any.

[WI_DEM]

7. on the other hand, Tom Brokaw came from "Today" too

just playing Devil's Advocate.

[chelsea0011]

12. True. Some come from the AM shows of late. They are basically

nothing more than news readers with an occasional location shoot. Evening News is only selling ads and looking for ratings. There is no rhyme or reason to hire Couric for a last place station than to get ratings. But give Brokaw a little more respect than Couric. He was a news reporter, many times oberseas, before he went to the Today Show and was very select to make sure Jane Pauley did most the fluff.

[Cha]

37. And didn't tom brokaw sell

out? Just playin' another devil's advocate.:evilgrin:

[Individualist]

2. ROFL

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[MADem]

3. No, but so what, really. She's got no where to go but up, I guess. NT

[Subdivisions]

4. Does CBS have a nightly news broadcast? I did not know that. eom

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. I don't plan to even watch.

I'm switching over to ABC.

But it will be interesting to see if she makes it. I just have this feeling that she is going to crash bigtime.

[lebkuchen]

6. I think it's pathetic that they air brushed weight off Katie

Once the makeup can't cover the wrinkles, the hair dye the gray, she's finished.

[datadiva]

8. Course I won't be watching to find out n/t

[AndyA]

9. What few viewers CBS now has will soon be gone after Couric's debut.

She's fluff, no substance. She is going to start off by interviewing the most unpopular man on Earth, George Bush. That will set the tone for her "career" at CBS. With disapproval ratings soaring, why would you want to start with such a loser? People want Bush to go away. People also want Couric to go away. She'd be best on an "Entertainment Tonight" type format, rather than hard news.

[Trailrider1951]

10. You know, I used to watch CBS news exclusively

But now that Brian Williams has shown some backbone as a reporter, I think I'll switch to NBC and dump CBS and their perky turkey.

[Individualist]

11. So did I,

but I switched to NBC as soon as CBS announced that rah rah would be their new Evening News anchor.

[acmavm]

13. I've seen her before. Her real calling is in a women's department

selling 'ladies undergarments' or something.

[Tyler Durden]

14. Murrow is spinning in his grave....

Cronkite would be too, if he were dead.

Couric should shudder with fear to sit in that chair.

[walkon]

15. Major drop for CBS

If there is any more down for them. Ultimately the newsreader is irrelevant - it's the Corporate owners that control the "news".

Such as Viacom

http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/viacom.asp

[lebkuchen]

33. I agree with your last statement

That's why the #s erasure

[Demeter]

16. I'm Hoping It Crashes and Burns Within a Week

and the media, at a loss, decides to cover something important and factual. Like Impeachment or War Crimes. Or even Treason. I'm not that picky.

[liberal N proud]

17. Will not watch that twit propagate for the regime

She would do well on FAUX

[wtmusic]

18. I have high hopes that her lack of depth

will send her down in flames.

[lisa58]

19. When I heard the promo about how...

...she was going to approach the news I could only think of a Sesame Street video she hosted about learning to share that my daughter had when she was little and I thought I'll never be able to watch her doing national news and take her seriously.

[wicket]

20. No, but I'm going to give her a shot

n/t

[frylock]

21. NAVY SEALS ROCK!!!

[aquaman]

22. When Rather was on I watched everynight......

I will not watch at all now.

[goforit]

23. Katie sucks!

[lebkuchen]

27. Katie doesn't like Ann Coulter

NOW what do you think of her?

[warrens]

24. It's going to suck

Perky and military disasters and financial ruin just don't go together.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

25. Not a chance. From what I've seen, Couric's not interested in actual news

Never was. Never will be.

Also gives me another chance to post these lyrics
I know it's Fleetwood Mac (I personally love the Mac, but some don't,)
but Lindsey Buckingham rocked on this song.

Murrow Turning Over In His Grave

All the sainted sinners
They pay handsomely
M S C A E they make the weapons
And they run the prisons
And they sell the justice
'Cause being guilty is just good business
Well we're standing out on the borderline
Ain't no one here gonna stop it now

Murrow's turnin' over in his grave (Murrow's turnin' over in his grave)
Ed Murrow had a child the damn thing went wild
Murrow's turnin' over in his grave (Murrow's turnin' over in his grave)
Ed Murrow had a child the damn thing went wild

Half-closed eyes and unconscious death
Do you feel the ooze as your brain drains out
From the pneumatic drills and sharpened knives?
Blood in the sky are you dead or alive?
All the restless people and the bitter green
Well, it takes the gold makes the spirit mean

Murrow's turnin' over in his grave (Murrow's turnin' over in his grave)
Ed Murrow had a child the damn thing went wild
Murrow's turnin' over in his grave (Murrow's turnin' over in his grave)
Ed Murrow had a child the damn thing went wild



The song ends with Buckingham doing a guitar solo with incoherent yammering
of news talking heads in the background. I can't make out any
real words, but I can tell that it's a bunch of vacuous news heads talking about
useless crap.

[keepCAblue]

26. CBS Magazine slims down Couric in photos...

Leave it to the MSM to airbrush Couric to look 20 lbs thinner. And why not? I mean, hey, they doctor the news every day don't they, so what harm is there in photo-shopping a promo photo of little Katie of Sunnybrook Farm? (it's only when it's the Lebanon MSM that it's wrong :sarcasm: )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_en_tv/tv_couric_altered_photo

[Supersedeas]

39. superficial gets more superficilier

[RB TexLa]

28. She can read can't she? what more is there to hope for n/t

[Avalux]

29. Doesn't matter cause I won't be watching.

Couldn't pay me enough to tune in. What was CBS thinking anyway? :shrug:

[onecent]

30. Last time I watch K. Couric was when she drilled the hell out of Michael

Moore when he was interviewing for his movie. She was ruthless...and did everything she could to make him look bad.

I will NEVER watch her - and hope she fails hopelessly. I loved Dan Rather, and hate what they did to him.

[lebkuchen]

32. I'd take Katie over Paula Tooth

any day

[Catchawave]

31. Perkiness if fine with coffee, not at martini hour :)

*clinky*

[Smooth Operator]

35. the only hope I have

is that the stay will be short.

[depakid]

34. Not interested in being misinformed

so- like millions of others- I won't be watching CBS "news."

[Redbear]

36. I voted "Yes"

Evening news viewership has been going down for a long time.

If this new approach actually gets more people to watch the news, that is a great thing.

I do NOT expect that people who pay close attention to the news will learn much from Ms. Couric's show, just like we dont learn much from watching Charlie Gibson or Brian Williams.

[KansDem]

38. I gave up on CBS after it brought Connie Chung on to co-anchor with Rather

Not that I don't like CC, I just don't like having two anchors read me the news...

[soothsayer]

40. Yes, I hope she tanks! (she's just an annoying local gal to me)

[Booster]

41. I'm going to wait and see what she does before I judge her.

Seems only logical to me. She wouldn't have been my choice, but I will wait and see.

[Greyhound]

42. Just another corporate whore pretending to be a journalist, instead

of another pair of tits in a suit.

[saltpoint]

43. I'm not a big Katie fan. I don't think she has the chops to interview

political figures. There are other men and women in several news agencies who do it better.

Katie Couric may drive more progressives to the web to get their news.

It's not personal. I just don't think she's that good.