Hell No! Katie Won't Go!
I blogged about Katie Couric on 7/13 as to what I thought she would do as the new anchor for the CBS Evening News. Now the Drudge Report carried a story recently saying Katie Couric will refuse to go to the Middle East because "it's so dangerous."
She'll be sitting in the studio as her colleagues Elizabeth Palmer, Sheila McVicar and Lara Logan report from the area. Katie's excuse is that she has two young children. I'm sure many of the journalists covering the Israel-Heezbollah conflict do.
She may be the first anchor of the modern era not to report from the scene of a battle area, other than Wolf Blitzer of CNN (though he doesn't really count because he's cable TV). Welcome to the new CBS news, where the anchor is just a teleprompter reader, not a journalist.
Another recent adddition to the CBS evening news is its new 'investigative reporter,' Arman Keteyan. His previous experience was as a college football sideline reporter. The lowest rung on the sports reporting ladder.
He investigated such weighty matters as to what the coach thought his team had to do in the second half to get back into the game. Maybe in his new job he can investigate how he got the job at CBS instead of a real reporter.
She'll be sitting in the studio as her colleagues Elizabeth Palmer, Sheila McVicar and Lara Logan report from the area. Katie's excuse is that she has two young children. I'm sure many of the journalists covering the Israel-Heezbollah conflict do.
She may be the first anchor of the modern era not to report from the scene of a battle area, other than Wolf Blitzer of CNN (though he doesn't really count because he's cable TV). Welcome to the new CBS news, where the anchor is just a teleprompter reader, not a journalist.
Another recent adddition to the CBS evening news is its new 'investigative reporter,' Arman Keteyan. His previous experience was as a college football sideline reporter. The lowest rung on the sports reporting ladder.
He investigated such weighty matters as to what the coach thought his team had to do in the second half to get back into the game. Maybe in his new job he can investigate how he got the job at CBS instead of a real reporter.
posted by Marshall Darts at
6:33 PM
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They moved Arman Keteyan to the news division? Holy crap, He wasn't even a good sideline reporter. And Katie refusing to go to the Middle East, if true, is a further slide down the scale for the once proud network of Murrow, Cronkite, Sevareid, Shirer, et al.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 7/23/2006 6:14 PM
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