The legends of CBS NEws:Murrow, Cronkite, Wallace, Hewitt...KATIE COURIC?!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Journalism is dead, my friends

[IsItJustMe]

1. Yes it is. Now we have Wolf and Rita. It's a sad day.

[SethInUpstateNY]

2. Somewhere, Edward R. Murrow

is spinning in his grave.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. "Navy Seals ROCK!!"

[Pachamama]

4. Poor CBS...they will soon figure out that the idiots who watch the Today

Show never did it for Katie Couric....

Soon, Katie Couric, just like she did for colon cancer, will take CBS news into the bowels and the worst that the MSM has to offer....

Because Couric is now on CBS, I will intentionally NOT turn on the CBS news....

What an insult to the memories of those great news casters....

RIP CBS....

[pacalo]

14. I thought you were going to say that they will soon find out that

the idiots who watch the Today Show aren't interested in watching real news. :)

[question everything]

5. Did you mean "these boobs are real" Couric?

Good bye, CBS News. Was nice while it lasted.

[Rowdyboy]

6. Cronkite spoke glowingly of Katie on Larry King tonight.....

Perhaps she deserves a chance....possibly

[rfkrfk]

10. paid emdorsement...n/t

[pacalo]

19. He was being gracious, don't you think?

I don't think he would say what he really thinks, given that she was just hired by those who pay his pension.

Believe me, Couric has made it plain, day after day, that she favors Republicans, particularly the Bushes. She has always had obvious contempt for Democrats, whether speaking about them or interviewing them. I watched the show religiously until the late 90's.

If she delivers the news in an even-handed manner -- without grimacing, crinkling up her nose, making one of her other disdainful looks when talking about the Democrats, then cackling up a storm & kissing up to the Republicans -- then I'll admit I was wrong. I don't think I'm wrong about her. I've watched her too many years.

[Late Slip]

7. Who would you have picked?

You need a familiar face, middle-aged, lots of credibility, pleasant looking but not TOO arractive and a soothing voice. Who? Maybe Charles Gibson or Diane Sawyer? I do like Diane Sawyer.

[tulsakatz]

17. I like Diane Sawyer!

She has much more credibility with me! At least she has worked on other hard news shows..........Couric hasn't!

[pacalo]

21. Good choice!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. Lesley Stahl,Christiane Amanpour, Amy Goodman (in a perfect world)

hell, John Stewart is a more serious newsman than Katie. we'll they have empty celeb interviews with that annoying flamboyant fellow on the panel as well?

[question everything]

24. John Roberts, or Leslie Stahl (nt)

[gristy]

8. Two years, either she's gone, or all the journalists still at CBS today

will be gone. In 2 years, it's quite possible that both she and the journalists will be gone, and then we'll have..., umm..., something. Not sure what, but it sure won't be a news program.

[Diane R]

9. It used to be, "And that's the way it is...."

Now it's "So how do you FFeeeeelll??"

[MnFats]

11. gotta say i didn't need to see Katie's colon in living color....

...i understand that colon cancer is a serious issue but...
....come on. televising the examination of her poop chute on national broadcast airwaves?
...can you imagine cronkite, mike wallace or rather doing the same...

[pacalo]

12. Perky news infotainment coming to CBS.

Over-aged college cheerleader hired by the man who left his wife for Julie Chen. Why would we expect more when Moonves is in charge of hiring at CBS News?

[dweller]

13. Katie Couric is soo FOXY!

and i expect the CBS evening news will become the same as Fauxsnooze.

dp

[MiniMe]

15. She actually used to be on our local DC news

But I can't remember if she was an anchor. That was a while ago.

[tulsakatz]

16. I bet she'll be history in 6 months!

Katie has managed to benefit from the cutsey-girl-next-door kind of image on the Today show but she is not accustomed to doing hard news all of the time.

Yes, she may have done some serious stories on the Today show but she also does the human interest kind of stories too.

I could be wrong but I just don't think the cutesey stuff is going to work in a hard news show like that.

[pacalo]

22. And, interestingly, she relies on cutsey behavior for recognition.

It will be interesting to see the transition to news. Perhaps she'll be "leaving to spend more time with her daughters" when she sees her cutsey act doesn't fly on network news.

[tulsakatz]

25. that's true.........

Cutesy just doesn't work on hard news shows! People don't really care if you're cute, they just want people to report the news with some credibility.

I just don't think she can do that..........

[chookie]

18. Booboo

This is not going to work out. I am not a misogynist, just a realist. KC simply does not have the gravitas to pull such a big job off. I mean her no disrepect -- of course she has worked very hard to get where she is today. But that doesn't make you an anchor....

I am really going to miss Bob Schieffer as he has performed so superbly -- he was my fave anchor since the death of Mr Jennings.

Two chicks who could have pulled this important job off: Lesley Stahl and Christiane Amanpour -- those would have been classy, intelligent choices. Hell, even the wonderful Lara Logan would have been a superb selection; despite her short tenure at CBS, she certainly has the makings of a superb anchor.

I hate to say this, really, but KC is going to be a disaster and will lose the job within a year. If I am wrong about this, I will certainly own up to it....

"Navy Seals rock" this is a dumb as it gets, and we certainly have a lot of dumb to choose from....

[IChing]

20. I am sure that her hard hitting journalistic style will reinvestigate

Many of the stories the news media were or are afraid to handle



1. James Guckert/Jeff Gannon affair:
male prostitute posing as a white house reporter with 24/7 access to the white house never been fully investigated?

2. The real story on 911- on the real questions that need to be asked, to many to count here

3. The real relation between the news media and corporate america

4. The real reason we went to war with Iraq and the Neo-con agenda: http://crisispapers.org/essays6w/PNAC.htm

5. The real relationship of the govt. and agenda of big oil:

6. Yes, I can't wait for her hard hitting journalistic reporting,


I remember that last story she broke wide open on The Today Show which was...........????????????

[Golden Raisin]

26. I'm kind of surprised to see how many folks

still watch or take seriously American TV network "news" (including cable). And double ditto for people who still watch the TODAY show. It's all SO over and passe, particularly in the Age of the Internet. The ascension of the terminally perky Katie Couric at CBS is just another big shovelful of dirt in the grave of serious journalism. We're in a transitional period where all the "traditional" TV and print news sources are suspect and changing (NY Times, Washington Post, etc.) Too much corporatism and too much spinelessness or downright collusion where the Bush regime is concerned. Look to the Internet. Look to the Blogs. They are not perfect and there are plenty of crazies out there but at least its a living, vital, interesting entity --- ideas are tossed around --- not the semi-fossilized, decaying carcass of hybrid infotainment/talking points that network/cable/print news has become.