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Katie Couric Dumps Boyfriend Brooks Perlin
2011-12-13 20:09:00 Katie Couric is single and ready to mingle! The 54 year-old journalist and her much younger boyfriend Brooks Perlin have reportedly broken up and he is moving out of Katie?s Upper East Side home after dating for more than five years. Katie Couric Goes Down & Dirty Dancing Facebook Pictures Apparently Brooks and Katie?s relationship ...
Katie Couric Boner
2010-10-26 23:03:00 Katie Couric, fresh from ruining her Louboutins exiting limos on gravel in ?this great unwashed middle of the country,? confides to The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz: ?American voters are slightly schizophrenic?they want compromise, and yet some of them are ideologically so fixated to one point of view? There are a lot of moderate Americans who are just fed up with negative campaign ads, fed up with the vitriol, fed up with the paralysis.?It's just another speculative puff piece on the $15 mil a year third-place media leaker. "Unwashed" CB reader ZD wonders: "Should I be offended?" Is this the same Katie Couric who carried around chicken bones in her pockets?
By: Chickaboomer
SHOCKER ? Mindless, Incoherent, Pathetic, Little-Known Far-Right Talk Radio
2009-09-23 06:16:00 Katie Couric Elicits The Ultimate In Shrill, Whiny, Nasaly-Sounding Protests From Struggling Talk Radio Shock Jock In Internets ONLY Interview… ark Levin — pathetic. Struggling, can’t seem to grow his hate-filled, radical talk radio show any faster than [NOW and NEW] Minnestoa... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
How Bad is Katie Couric Doing at CBS News?
2009-06-09 19:31:00 Well, lets just say Katie Couric helped CBS News set an all-time record low on June 1, 2009 with just 5,180,000 viewers. EVENING NEWS RACE WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2009 NBC 7,960,000 ABC 7,150,000 CBS 5,180,000* [image: wenn.com]
PRESIDENTIAL QUESTIONS 10/09/08 ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC
2008-10-10 01:26:00 Tonight's questions to Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama:1. What do you think is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to this country?2. Who are the three people who are alive you would most like to have dinner with?Following is the transcript from tonight's broadcast.COURIC: What do you think is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to this country?MCCAIN: Obviously our founding was the best thing that ever happened to our country, because that was a unique collection of the most wise, informed and incredible individuals who joined together to found our nation and create a document that is still a model to the rest of the world. Maybe the worst thing that happened to America, in modern times is the great depression. It affected probably more, a greater percentage of our population than any other economic or other impact that we experienced. And literally, half the population, or 40 percent. Whatever it was, huge numbers that are incomprehensible were out...
PRESIDENTIAL QUESTIONS 10/09/08 ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC
2008-10-10 00:33:00 Tonight's questions to Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama:1. What do you think is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to this country?2. Who are the three people who are alive you would most like to have dinner with?Following is the transcript from tonight's broadcast.COURIC: What do you think is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to this country?MCCAIN: Obviously our founding was the best thing that ever happened to our country, because that was a unique collection of the most wise, informed and incredible individuals who joined together to found our nation and create a document that is still a model to the rest of the world. Maybe the worst thing that happened to America, in modern times is the great depression. It affected probably more, a greater percentage of our population than any other economic or other impact that we experienced. And literally, half the population, or 40 percent. Whatever it was, huge numbers that are incomprehensible were out...
What NFL Team Does Sarah Palin Support
2008-10-01 20:20:00 I have a problem with Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and it has nothing to do with her political views.* Perhaps you saw the three second clip of Palin jogging in a Donovan McNabb Philadelphia Eagles jersey. (If not, the video is below at the 3:11 mark and a picture is on the right.) First of all, besides actual football players, who actually jogs wearing a football jersey? Wouldn?t a T-shirt or Under Armor shirt be more comfortable? Let?s assume that because Pain is wearing a McNabb jersey in the video, she has some type of affinity for the Eagles. Does she only support the Eagles? Well, when I wrote last month that Joe Biden is a Steelers fan, Captain Easychord shared a July 2007 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article which showed that Palin is also a Steelers fan. So is she a Steelers fan, an Eagles fan, or both? This is where things get even more complex. Sarah Palin is also a member of the official Seattle Seahawks official fan club, the Seahawkers.** Super Bowl...
By: Sean's Ramblings
Señor J. Sidney McMoralHighRoad?s Vow To The American People To Halt Campai
2008-09-26 02:32:00 A Show Of Hands For Those Whom Are Surprised Señor Panama John McCain’s Latest “Country First” Promise Ends Up Being An Empty One That’s right; it was just YESTERDAY when the Elder[ly] “Statesman” from Arizona Panama by the name of Señor Juan Sidney McCain... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
How I never ever wanted to see Katie Couric
2008-08-26 10:28:00 Us Weekly Katie Couric said, "If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke" Well we have something in common because looking at those pictures of her I want to puke. You would think with all those fluff stories she does on CBS Evening News you would think she would have done at least one story ...
Katie Couric Digg's The DNC Convention
2008-08-19 12:53:00 Katie Couric's discovered "Digg" for the DNC Convention. See her video-blog here:
CBS: Ratings Roadkill
2008-06-10 15:46:00 Bob Schieffer back in the CBS News anchor chair? "No. That is not anticipated." B&C CBS News prez Sean McManus. B&C: "You also recently weathered another spate of piranha-like media speculation about Katie Couric?s future. At what point does this type of coverage affect your brand?"McManus: "I think the negativity has died down dramatically over the past couple of months... And I watch what Katie does every night and I would put it up there against what anybody else is doing on network and cable television right now. And if we keep doing that, the brand will be just fine. Nobody likes to read negative press..."
By: Chickaboomer
Makeup Free Kathie Lee
2008-06-06 13:52:00 Katie Couric and her YouTube camera invade the sanctity of NBC's "Today" show make-up room zeroing in on an unmasked Kathie Lee Gifford. Without her paint Miz Kathie Lee could pass for a Wal-Mart cashier.
By: Chickaboomer
Keith Olbermann: Poetry In Motion
2008-06-02 13:21:00 Howard Kurtz Wash Post on TV talking heads' Scott McClellan Bush bash spin: [Keith] Olbermann hailed the book, "What Happened," as "a primary document of American history" that contained "poetry." Talk about role reversal: It was Olbermann who said in 2005 that "whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about 'media credibility,' I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times." (Gannon, a conservative blogger with an X-rated past [a gay hooker], now says, "Scott McClellan's credibility is zero.")So is the credibility of the Big Three TV networks. Katie Couric admitted last week she was under pressure to positively spin the Iraq war. Anderson Cooper's CNN reporterbabe Jessica Yellin pointed the same finger at MSNBC brass.Kurtz: MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines calls Yellin a "disgruntled . . . news reader" who worked there for one year and who had "little to no contact with editorial decision-makers." Yellin sa...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric?s ex is finding a second chance at love with a billion-heiress
2008-05-30 22:00:00 According to West Coast spies, TV producer Tom Werner is dating Alexandra von Furstenberg - the Miller sister who was married to Diane von Furstenberg?s son, Alexandre, until he left her for 19-year-old Ali Kay. If the new couple stay together, it could be the wealthy version of ?The Brady Bunch,? as they both bring ...
GE: "We Bring Good Things To Light"
2008-05-30 15:43:00 It's been a bad week at 30 Rock. The long knives are out as Katie Couric claims she was pressured to positively spin Bush's Iraq war while NBC "Today" show hostess the same day a former MSNBC reporter said the same. "Was Press A War Enabler?" NYTRe: Katie's blast: A spokeswoman for General Electric, which owns NBC and MSNBC through its division NBC Universal, declined to speak about the specifics of the comments but said, ?General Electric has never, and will never, interfere in the editorial process at NBC News.? Jessica Yellin, the ex-MSNBC chick now at CNN, "revised and extended" her remarks: "No, senior corporate leadership never asked me to take out a line in a script or re-write an anchor intro. I did not mean to leave the impression that corporate executives were interfering in my daily work; my interaction was with senior producers. What was clear to me is that many people running the broadcasts wanted coverage that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the country a...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: How Low Can You Go?
2008-05-29 16:31:00 Katie Couric's ratings slipped again last week beating the old record low set in April. Huff PostCatty Lisa Ling signed by CNN to deliver doom and gloom to your HDTV. Hollywood Reporter Ling will report from countries where battles are being waged over oil, land, water and food. Also reporting for "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" will be anchor Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. It will be televised in high definition at year's end.How will Miz Lisa arrange for those Botox shots in the bush... Maybe Gupta will volunteer.
By: Chickaboomer
Sing Along With Bitch
2008-05-24 14:16:00 Watch Katie Couric's on-stage moves and mediocre singing with Bette Midler. "When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars..." What's with those white UFO disc earrings? They're waaay too big for her head...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric Joins Bette Midler in Sing-Along
2008-05-23 12:05:00 The newswoman sings ’60s-style with the Divine Miss M for a NYC parks project More: continued here
By: Feed Me Gossip
CBS: If It Bleeds, It Leads
2008-05-19 14:48:00 "How puzzling must it have been for CBS when Bob Schieffer, a bona-fide old guy, with white hair and a gravelly voice, got ratings that were better than both Rather?s and Couric?s?Nancy Franklin in a New Yorker piece with an illustration that makes Katie Couric look like a predatory rodent. Not so puzzling considering liberal Rather turned off the old fart "CBS Evening News" La-Z-Boy viewers nodding off behind TV dinner tray tables. But wait! There's more! "She often comes across as hollow and robotic. I?m never as aware that anybody is reading from a teleprompter as I am when I?m watching Couric. She is essentially wasted in this job, as it has been defined by her and by Moonves, but the fact is that anyone with more of a reporting background would probably have been even unhappier in the job than Couric has evidently been, because CBS doesn?t appear to be all that interested in maintaining its news division; earlier this year, it was reported that the network was looking into usi...
By: Chickaboomer
Larry King: As Predictable As Ex-Lax
2008-05-17 13:53:00 ?That?s why I?ll never work here. Breaking booty news ? that?s my background.? Ryan Seacrest to Larry King on why he'll never take over Larry's show permanently. Jacques Steinberg NYTCNN honcho Jon Klein's trying to quell rumors that CNN is: A) dumping Larry for Ryan or Katie. B) Moving ol' Lar out of the 9 p slot. Klein: "?Larry King Live? is one of the few appointment-viewing shows on television. It takes years and years to build that up.? ?As long as he continues to get the great bookings and the great ratings and maintains his passion for doing it, all of which he?s maintained, he?s there... He hoped Mr. Seacrest would continue to fill in for Mr. King ?from time to time,? but added that he had given no thought to a more permanent role for Mr. Seacrest at CNN. As to any interest he might have in Ms. Couric... ?She?s got a job at CBS. She?s got a contract over there. That?s all there is to say.?Larry has delusions of working until he's 83 - in 2017 - if God doesn't strike hi...
By: Chickaboomer
Muscled Out
2008-05-16 04:55:00 Former NBC "Today" show anchoress Jane Pauley weighs in on Katie Couric's abject failure at the helm of the CBS Evening News. "It was a brave experiment. I think her strengths were unique but she was not well used." WWD
By: Chickaboomer
Could Katie Couric be returning to NBC?
2008-05-09 17:59:00 That was the buzz yesterday morning after NBC boss Jeff Zucker was spotted climbing out of his black SUV on a visit to Couric, who left the ?Today? show to anchor ?CBS Evening News,? at her East Side apartment. But don?t hold your breath. A friend of Couric told Page Six, ?Jeff and Katie have ...
Can't Run. Can't Hide.
2008-05-09 12:00:00 NYP Page Six: Could Katie Couric be returning to NBC? That was the buzz yesterday morning after NBC boss Jeff Zucker was spotted climbing out of his black SUV on a visit to Couric, who left the "Today" show to anchor "CBS Evening News," at her East Side apartment. But don't hold your breath. A friend of Couric told Page Six, "Jeff and Katie have been friends for 20 years. He asked her to get a Mother's Day gift for his wife, Caryn, and picked it up on the way to his daughter's play." Relax, all you NBC grunts in Zuckers Skinner Box, with eternally programmed "conditioned response" to cower in your offices at the sound of clicking stilletos on shiny waxed floors...
By: Chickaboomer
King Pinged
2008-05-01 14:27:00 "It may take a crowbar to pry King off CNN's stage. For starters, the network just extended his contract another two years to June, 2011. And at 74, despite painful moments of cluelessness with even borderline-hip guests, King still draws some of CNN's strongest numbers." Gail Shister TV Newser in a Q&A with dumped CNN ego Aaron Brown on the beach until now with a new PBS Tee Vee show. He didn't need the dough. CNN paid Brown for doing nothing while his contract ran out. "After collecting his $1.8 million-a-year CNN salary for not working from November 2005 until his contract expired last July, he wasn't looking for a full-time gig." Brown sticking it to CNN on Larry: "I love Larry. If Larry wants to work at CNN until he's 110, I'm there." It ain't your call, bud... Brown also tells Shister he likes Keith Olbermann.
By: Chickaboomer
CBS: Takes A Licking But Keeps On Ticking
2008-04-30 14:54:00 CBS flies in the face of vulture forecasters by 3 cents. Analysts ventured a wild guess that CBS shares would be up 36 cents. Nyet. 33 cents. The writers' strike kept production costs down. Dough from political ads helped boost $$$. The beleaguered CBS Radio revenue was down 6 percent. Tim Arango NYTNot impressive no matter how you spin it. Last week Katie Couric's ratings hit an all-time low. It's a safe bet Fox will bump off #1 CBS. TV Newser: Fox & Friends beat the bejeezus out of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and CNN's "America In The Morning" in April ratings. BTW: Fox News going HD tomorrow in some markets. TV Newser Political pimping propels CNN's ratings. Olbermann still sucking wind to Bill O'Reilly. New guy on the MSNBC news block, David Gregory, already doing better than Tucker Carlson in that 6 p.m. slot.
By: Chickaboomer
CBS Evening News: Limbo Rock
2008-04-29 21:56:00 Sally Quinn's garden party to "cheer up" Katie Couric Sunday during the WH correpondents' DC "prom weekend" offset by the CBS News ratings limbo rock: How low can you go? "CBS Evening News" numbers hit an all-time low last week, beating out the previous record set the week before. Brian Stelter TV Decoder NYTBut it's all right now, I learned my lesson well. You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself... Rick Nelson's "Garden Party".
By: Chickaboomer
CBS Evening News: Extinct
2008-04-29 14:48:00 NewsBlues Mike James Exclusive: Half of the subscribers to NewsBlues believe either CBS "Early Show" host Harry Smith should replace Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS "Evening News" or the network should simply shut down its nightly newscast.Of 8,816 votes cast in a 24-hour period Monday, 2,192 (25%) indicated they believe the nightly CBS network newscast is no longer viable. 2,172 readers (25%) believe Harry Smith should anchor the fading newscast.1,120 voters (12%) hope ABC's Diane Sawyer will replace Couric. 928 readers (11%) voted for CBS's Scott Pelley as her replacement. 920 voters (10%) chose CNN's Anderson Cooper.MSNBC's Keith Olbermann finished 6th with 700 votes (8%), CBS's Russ Mitchell followed with 564 votes (6%), and NBC's Ann Curry was a distant last with just 2-percent of the votes (220).And one more thing... TIME mag's James Poniewozik puts in what his editors excised in his TIME opine on Katie Couric's colossal failure. Executive summary: If CBS News instal...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: Wizard Of Odds
2008-04-25 15:54:00 Unsolicited advice to Katie Couric: "Take a long sabbatical, then hope for Larry King to keel over." Emily Rooney (the daughter of CBS "60 Minutes" appallingly groomed Andy Rooney): "Talk about stop-loss. It's got to be her move. She's got to make it work out for her in every way, personally. That's her No. 1 concern right now. She has to save some face here." Gail Shister TV Newser"CBS could certainly replace Couric with a woman with less gums and giggle." NewsBusters shooting down a TIME mag critic shilling the "white guys" old chestnut.And your little dog, too...
By: Chickaboomer
CBS News: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2008-04-24 16:43:00 It is time for CBS News to be put down, in the Old Yeller sense of the phrase. It's time to turn out the lights and just start airing Hollywood gossip at 6:30 p.m. The network could follow Schieffer's lead and simply dissolve the thing after the inauguration, maybe keeping 60 Minutes around, either as a commercial-free public service program (because what exec doesn't love a prestige-hogging loss leader?) or under the auspices of CBS' entertainment division (because why keep pretending?). The farewell would be handled with dignified pomp?tributes to Murrow and Severeid and so forth. And if Walter Cronkite is in good health, he could do the honors with a final sign off. I'm serious. That's how bad things are, and that's the way it is. Troy Patterson Slate "Dead Air. Why CBS Should Shutter Its News Division"Dorothy Maguire as Katie Coates "Old Yeller" 1957: "If that don't beat all. I never saw such a dog."
By: Chickaboomer
Larry King: Banished To Broadcast Siberia?
2008-04-24 13:10:00 A new wrinkle in septuagenarian Larry King's CNN contract extension that leaves open the door for Katie Couric to slide in: no guarantee of his 9 pm time slot. Newsday's Verne Gay reports ol' Lar may air but a less-prime time. Verne Gay Newsday
By: Chickaboomer
Larry King On Jim Bohannon
2008-04-23 20:21:00 Thur 4/24, 11:06PM-12Midnight ET, you can call Larry on the Jim Bohannon Show at 866-50-JIMBO. [There's Jim inserting himself between McCain's famous temper honed in utero and Teddy's bloated punching bag]Ask ol' Lar about his $28 mil contract extension w/CNN precipitated by speculation CNN was ditching the 74-year-old for Katie Couric. Larry will be 77 when CNN handcuffs him to a horse and into the sunset. The Radio Hall of Famer took over Larry's Westwood One syndicated talk radio show years ago when Larry decided to ditch the one that brung him.
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: Popped Tart
2008-04-23 17:10:00 "We?re frustrated with the ratings.? CBS News Paul Friedman on Katie Couric's worst numbers ever. Bill Carter NYTReports of its demise are exaggerated. Delusional Dan Rather (who infamously accused CBS of "tarting up the news" with Katie) back in court yesterday pushing forward his $70 mil lawsuit against CBS. The judge basically disemboweled his lawsuit a couple of weeks ago. TV Newser Dan gets to take depositions from CBS suits. NYO
By: Chickaboomer
King's Heart Strings Zing
2008-04-23 00:23:00 TV Newser reports Larry King will continue his CNN gig through 2010. The septuagenarian will be 77 when the new contract extension runs out. So much for speculation that Katie Couric's sliding into ol' Lar's chair...
By: Chickaboomer
Couric Canned
2008-04-22 01:02:00 No shockeroo. Katie Couric will clack into the CBS News sunset with no 2008 Dem debate under her stilettos. TV Newser Barack wouldn't commit so the NC Dem party bagged it.
By: Chickaboomer
See BS
2008-04-19 17:42:00 Les Moonbeam emerged from the shadows at CBS yesterday with his pom poms and rah-rah-buck-up-the-troops spin at Couric-fatigued CBS News. Thyose who were there for the "off-the-record" surprise appearance rushed to the phones and rang up the press. The leaks were either orchestrated by Moonves or by unauthorized rogues. ?Very forceful,? the executive said, quoting him as saying that he ?could not be happier with the content of CBS News and with the ?Evening News? anchor? and that Ms. Couric would be the anchor ?today, tomorrow and in the future,? while acknowledging that the ratings for the evening newscast were ?very frustrating.? Bill Carter NYTMoonves appears to have inherited the same gene that's keeping Hillary in the presidential race...
By: Chickaboomer
Matt Lauer: Lust Buster
2008-04-18 17:14:00 NYDN Rush & Molloy: Matt Lauer clearly cherishes his family after his near-divorce from wife Annette last year. The "Today" anchor is due to spend three weeks in China covering the Olympics. "I don't want to be separated from them for that long."The Earth failed to move with Kathie Lee Gifford's mid-life reinvention as a "Today" show fourth hour chatterbox. TV Newser The New York Times appears to be on either NBC's or Kathie Lee's payroll.Katie Couric mid-life silver lining: Millions for her autobiography. NYP Page Six Her exit sooner rather than later may be precipitated by the unruly spate of Katie-Leaving stories, the latest, NYP's Michael Starr. A CBS flack to Starr: "We think readers are extraordinarily bored with this infantile and nasty piling on, and will continue to focus not on baseless rumor and conjecture, but on the quality and depth of the broadcast - which is second to none."
By: Chickaboomer
Not-So-Nicene Screed
2008-04-18 00:08:00 I'm shuddering contemplating how MSNBC "Countdown" Keith Olbermann's massive ego is being fed like "The Blob's" voracious and indiscriminate consumption of humans. Dick Cheney at last night's Radio & Television Correspondents' dinner:"Countdown" frequent guest Mo Rocca entertained the gimlet-eyed journos wie Cth a riff on Katie Couric, Larry King, and C-BS. "She's simply waiting for Larry King to wander off," he said. "You know things are really bad when CBS News was included as one of the charities in Idol Gives Back."Mitt Romney performed a decidedly unstiff Top Ten List on why he bailed the Repub race. More at TV Newser...Catholic Tim Russert and Jewish Wolf Blitzer left the soiree early to pray for journalistic guidance prior to their private audience today with the Pope. TV Newser The Pope reportedly absolved their confessed TV news sins with an admonition to channel their talents for the greater good.
By: Chickaboomer
TV News: Good Night And Good Luck.
2008-04-17 15:10:00 Cindy McCain co-hosts ABC's "The View" Monday. NYDNABC News weatherdude Sam Champion fronts a "20/20" special Friday night on the weather: "Your Weather: Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity." NYDN Will Champion address stupid weathermen tricks like cute dog props? Charlie Gibson fronting a shameless promotion of Babs Walters's new book with a special on how special she is. NYP Echoing what I've pimped, Columbia Journalism Review advises CBS News to not pay Katie Couric's heir an obscene salary. I've gone further suggesting CBS just bag the evening news. TV Newser: The closing session of this year's RTNDA conference pondered the question "What Would Murrow Do?" He'd kill the formerly noble industry that spawned him in the halcyon days of TV news. NBC could end up sold if parent company GE's earnings continue to drop. "Once-isolated calls for at least a partial breakup of the conglomerate have become a chorus, with NBC Universal, appliances and GE Money, the consumer finance u...
By: Chickaboomer
What Would Katie Couric Do?
2008-04-17 01:31:00 A tip of my hat to Rita Rich for this: Pretty funny considering Larry is married to a Mormon.CNN Tonight: Exclusive: Larry Goes Inside Polygamist Compound Exclusive! Larry takes you on a never before seen look inside the Texas polygamist compound! Plus, he speaks to three women who were evacuated last week and are now pleading for their children?s return.Then, an exclusive with a man who might be the world's most powerful polygamy leader, Winston Blackmore!Hear what he has to say about sex with minors and the raids on the Texas compound. He's controversial, but is he a criminal? Tonight, only on Larry King Live!
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: The Party's Over
2008-04-16 15:55:00 Washington Times Inside The Beltway: Overheard one CBS News veteran in Washington, who shall remain nameless, refer to the network's struggling anchor Katie Couric as a "lame duck."There's a beaming Katie on her first day cloaked in a girlish jumper with Bob Schieffer with news prez Sean McManus in the background assuming the unwittingly prescient arm across the chest defensive position."Is she leaving? Of course she is. And it may well be after the presidential election, even though the public relations department at CBS has turned blue denying it. But there's a bigger question: Why do we need Couric ? or Charlie Gibson or Brian Williams ? to read us the news every night? Simply put, TV's evening news is a dinosaur that should go the way of the dodo bird."You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. I wrote the same dinosaur thing LAST week. Broadcast networks bleeding ad dollars to new media: get with the program or bust. MediaPostMark Dawidziak: Tom Rosensti...
By: Chickaboomer
Donald Trump: Short-Fingered Vulgarian Humps Lifetime Chicks
2008-04-15 16:19:00 Robert Feder Chicago Sun-Times: The bosses of top-rated ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 have been named "TV Managers of the Year" in the Midwest by Television Week magazine. Singled out were Emily Barr, president and general manager, Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director, and Ellen Crawley, vice president of program acquisition and research.Lisa de Moraes Wash Post: Lifetime, the cable network that purports to be about empowering women, has gotten into bed for one of its new projects with Donald Trump, the guy who seems just the teensiest bit dismissive of women who are (a) plus-size, (b) lesbian, (c) over 40 or (d) Angelina Jolie. "Trump Tower" is described by Lifetime as "a juicy nighttime soap set in one of New York City's most glamorous Trump apartment and condominium complexes." Who is Margie Burns and why is anyone taking seriously her blog musings advising CBS News to replace Katie with Keith Olbermann who, as a sportscaster, can count? Keith's frequent comedic guest, M...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: Plucky Lame Duck's Bad Luck
2008-04-15 14:25:00 Obama throws a monkey wrench into CBS News Katie Couric Dem debate.Katie throwing gutter balls: "She even visited the Obama campaign offices in Chicago last week where she reportedly tried to sway the candidate - so far, without luck." NYP Charlotte Observer
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric Fired Soon?
2008-04-14 18:55:00 Katie Couric for Anderson Cooper? A blockbuster trade of TV superstars was floated Friday by TV insiders as a solution to CBS's Katie problem. Cooper, CNN's prematurely gray prince of cable TV, would replace Couric as the anchor of CBS' "Evening News." He already is a contributor to CBS' "60 Minutes," they said. Popular: 8 hours 11 minutes ago source: (www.nydailynews.com)
By: CelebrityPWN
Garbage In. Garbage Out.
2008-04-14 15:22:00 In a move reminiscent of a major league sports deal, rumors surface of a Katie Couric Anderson Cooper "trade." Richard Huff NYDN Anderson to the CBS anchor chair; Katie to CNN. Anderson, a CBS News "60 Minutes" contributor, attracts the much-coveted younger demo elusive to network and cable TV news...Katie Couric is merely the public face to CBS's woes. People are getting fired left and right to save money. CBS stock is tanking. Ad sales suck. Yet head honcho Les Moonves rakes in more dough. Nearly $37 mil last year - $8 million more than the year before. Brian Stelter NYT A 28% increase. LA Times
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric's Bowl Movements
2008-04-11 14:05:00 "ABC's Charles Gibson could knock over a liquor store and not generate as much attention.And that's why Couric needs to get the hook - now." Richard Huff NYDNIn the nightly news Bowl-A-Rama Miz Katie's scored a dismal Obama 37...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
2008-04-11 13:18:00 The New York Times follows up on yesterday's WSJ's musings about Katie Couric's CBS News demise. Apparently the rumors of her death weren't greatly exaggerated and the rumors greased the skids for her exit:Bill Carter & Jacques Steinberg NYT: The discussion took place in New York on Feb. 28 and involved four people: Ms. Couric; her agent, Alan Berger of the Creative Artists Agency; Sean McManus, the president of CBS News; and Leslie Moonves, the chairman of CBS. The meeting took place in Mr. Moonves?s office. The conversation included what one participant said was some ?idle talk and musings? about the big question hanging over CBS News: should Ms. Couric leave her position as the news anchor after the presidential election, a development that had long been rumored.No one involved in the meeting or briefed on its particulars would be identified for attribution because of the delicate nature of the talks. But Ms. Couric discussed several things she might do if she left the an...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric Leaving CBS Evening News, Larry King Replacement?
2008-04-10 19:21:00 Good bye CBS, hello Larry King Katie Couric Live? That’s the chatter today in the WSJ that is reporting that Couric, despite a two year run, has been plagued by record low ratings as host of the CBS Evening News. And now, even though her contract doesn’t expire till 2011, could be off to be Larry King ...
KATIE COURIC LEAVING CBS EVENING NEWS?
2008-04-10 19:11:00 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that unnamed CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric, said on Wednesday she could leave her job as anchor of the low-rated...
By: Binside TV
Bullshattuck Chooses Katie Couric's New Successor
2008-04-10 19:00:00 I like Katie Couric. Really. Some find her saccharine personality to occasionally (i.e. always) border on the annoying. I on the other hand find her to be charming and delightful, while simultaeously plucky and determined. She's a scrappy orphan in manolos. She's a Norma Rae, but with better legs. She's a never-give-up Hillary Clinton, except with emotions. It probably broke the hearts of more than just a few people (most of whom are either two, three, or seven times my age) to learn of rumors that Katie, who was America's #1 morning host and is currently America's #3 evening host, may be replaced on the CBS Evening News after this year's presidential election. Replace Katie? What will she do? How will she survive? Who cares. Let's discuss her potential successors! The following list, it should be pointed out, is pure speculation. In other words, 100% fact. POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR THE CBS EVENING NEWS' SOON-TO-BE-EMPTY ANCHOR CHAIR (Sponsored by Pfizer: "Yep, we're st...
Is Katie Couric Leaving CBS?
2008-04-10 18:57:00 Is Katie Couric leaving CBS? That’s the buzz, and if she does plan an exit, it may be as early as next year after the Presidential Inauguration, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Katie Couric Katie started out at CBS in June 2006, with a salary of an estimated $15 million. Her contract expires ...
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