"Katie" News

She seemed more comfortable showing exclusive pictures of Suri Cruise than Lara Logan's great report on the Taliban. I don't know how Miss Logan does it. She is able to get to places no one else can. She is a very good and serious reporter. She has no chance to make it in the new world of Katie News.

"Katie's Friends," a/k/a "Free Speech," will recycle the same faces and same opinions of every talking head you'll see on every other talk show. Her first "friend," Morgan Spurlock, just got done doing the Colbert Repor(t). The once interesting, now dreadfully preachy, Thomas Friedman was also involved in wasting part of only 22 minutes that network news has available.

And finally, Katie and her mommy just haven't been able to come up with a sign-off, even though she's had 6 months and probably 100 staffers to help her. Won't you please help her by going to the CBS website and seeing how many hits she can get? How cynically manipulative can one get? So much for journalistic integrity, which, in case she forgot, includes telling the truth.

The "show" should be just fab tonight, with the right-wing's dancing elephant doing "Free Speech." Make sure and miss it. I don't have a sign-off suggestion, but how about a new theme song? I'd suggest "Bring in the Clowns."