Katie Couric needs to be fired, now!
It is one thing when a bubbly cutie from a morning show lands a massive give as the first woman nightly news caster and then fails miserably because her intellect is not quite as capable of dealing with reality after 5 PM. That kind spectacular failure is the failure of the network to adequately take into account the limitations of the person they are hiring. One could hardly blame Katie Couric for taking a job for that much money. One can, however, entirely blame her employers for their idiocy.But to fabricate a part of an interview in order to make the person being interviewed appear in a more favorable light is a whole other situation. This type of situation is entirely unethical and entirely a violation of all journalistic principles. Instead of informing the public, Couric's interview simply acted to showcase the best features of the person she interviewed, John McCain. Instead of giving the public all the information they need by which to make an educated choice about something as serious as a Presidential candidate, Couric acted as a public relations specialist instead. Couric is no journalist, that was clear early on. What is is now, however, is not even a credible talking head........
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This is so dishonest. I have almost stopped watching TV because it all seems like propaganda. Give me an old movie any day. Fire her, I say.
I like coming to read here, because you write about things I don't see at other places. Thanks, Rose.
Couric was the strangest choice to be picked to take the CBS news chair. With ladies like Andrea Mitchell, Lesley Stahl, Diane Sawyer, Cynthia McFadden, and many others with actual journalistic credentials to pick someone whose greatest experience was fluff pieces for the Today Show was just weird. Once it became clear her usual fluff stories were not going to bring the ratings up I heard something to the effect that once they made her stay on hard news she made clear that if she knew she she would have to stay on hard news she wouldn't have taken the job. I'm not sure if that was true but I read it several times on the net as rumors flew.
you're too sweet mariamariacuchita. i try to mix things up a bit.
although my NEW laptop was supposed to be here YESTERDAY, it's not. i got an email saying it will be at least another week.
the one i'm using is VERY ill and it's hard for me to post. so things will be iffy until the new one arrives
bb, i don't doubt that story is true. i know EXACTLY why they picked her. because she WAS popular on the morning show and the network honchos thought she'd bring a ton o' fans with her. well in the nightly news time slot, as it turns out, people actualy DEMAND TO HEAR HARD NEWS
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