Katie's cross purposes

[JohnWxy]

Couric doesn't disappoint. In order to bring back civility to public discourse of issues..

SHE'S GONNA HAVE RUSH LIMBAUGH HELP WITH THE JOB!!!!


SORTOF LIKE HAVING SEMINAR ON ETHNIC TOLERANCE TAUGHT BY JOSEPH GOEBBELS.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[kurth]

1. Look at this gem:

When an environmentalist died of breast cancer in 1997, Limbaugh played the sound of a buzzsaw and said the woman had “finally been cut down to size.” And "she’ll never be able to bark up the wrong tree again".

[Initech]

5. Personally, I love the "Club Gitmo" brand merchandise

He proved he was the Krusty The Klown of the right-wing radio tools by whoring himself out to the highest bidder with that one.

[Avalux]

2. It'll snag viewers, and that's the name of the game.

Just like showing the pics of Tom and Katie's baby last night. They're going with gimmicks to draw in new viewers. I really would like someone to just READ THE NEWS without any editorializing or cutsie little segments. Unfortunately, that's not what we're gonna get. I won't watch her.

[JohnWxy]

3. Fascist Fucking Fake news show. I'll fucking skip it too.

This stuff is the REAL PORNOGRAPHY. CBS SINKS TO THE LOWEST LEVEL.

[SteppingRazor]

4. To be fair, her first guest on that segment of the show...

was Morgan Spurlock.

I'm not defending bringing that idiot Limbaugh on the air -- in fact, I think the entire "freeSpeech" segment is stupid -- but I figured that should at least get a mention. Personally, I think there's enough bloviating opinions on TV without such people oozing into a half-hour straight news cast. We don't need more opinion. We need more fact.

[JohnWxy]

7. lets see the cheer-leader have Eric Alterman on the show.

[partylessinOhio]

6. "Good night from all us at what used to be CBS News."

Couric's Cuddly News a Big Disappointment

Wednesday, September 06, 2006


LOS ANGELES - In what seemed like thousands of interviews and promos, Katie Couric gave every indication that, while she might change some of the trappings of TV's most legendary news program, it would still be a broadcast of substance that included the day's biggest stories.
No such luck. TV's first solo woman anchor, it seems, will preside over a news-flavored broadcast that consists of one or two news pieces, a few headlines and a host of soft features.

Couric, who ditched the pearl necklace that was seen in most of the promo shots released by CBS leading up to Tuesday night's broadcast, was all-business at the newscast opened. Her top story, Lara Logan's breathless piece about inroads made by the Taliban in Afghanistan, was followed by ...Thomas Friedman... obligatory coverage of a presidential speech on terrorism and a summary of news headlines shorter than Dave Letterman's Top Ten list... report on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, managing to completely ignore Couric's tease question about whether lower gas prices are in the offing.

And then the wheels really began to fall off the cart. ... The clock was ticking. Couric had started with 22 minutes to impart the most important events of the day but, after "freeSpeech" and baby photos, only a few minutes were left. She introduced a fluffy feature about a project through which Third World orphans got portraits of themselves ...Maybe this was the golden opportunity to show how news-gathering technology and skillful writing and reporting could make seemingly remote events relevant and compelling.

Guess we'll never know.

Oh, one more thing. Couric confessed that, after months of deliberation, she still hasn't found a signature closing line she really likes. She asked viewers to suggest some, so here's mine: "Good night from all us at what used to be CBS News."

http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3550212

[mitchum]

8. "Closeted, bloviating drug addicts rock!"