We get the Today show at 4am and have a couple of local lookalikes later in the morning. I think the problem you Katie haters have is that you are mistaking the program for news, you know the stuff you get in newspapers, magazines, the internet or radio if you are lucky. If it is on commercial television it is a TV show - Katie is just being Phoebe. Would you rather Matt Lauer be Joey?
I’m sure if you taped a show and wrote a transcript of the actual news content you would be lucky to have two pages of newsprint a day.
That’s because of her vaunted “hard news” experience.
Er…
I can’t say that I remember seeing her in the last couple of years, but the last time I saw her she looked pretty…well, tired and hard wouldn’t be an exaggeration; she was always kind of plasticine, but these days she seems to be more and more just plain plastic.
Really, isn’t it time to just give up on the pretense that news show anchors are anything more than glorified mouthpieces? The limes have it right; calling them newsreaders is a precise description of their job. And if replacing Dan Rather’s obnoxious election night homilies with Curic’s forced bubbly whimsy is the trade, I think I’d prefer to get my news exclusively from The Onion.
Whatintheheck ever happened to Lynne Russell, anyway? She used to have the greatest sardonic looks and rollyeyes after reading some pointless piece of fluff or quote from an idiotic politicla figure. Quite the babe, too, if you like 'em built for battle. Rrrow! I might even turn on The CBS Nightly News for that.
Yeah, and not only that but she’s a private eye, scuba diver and martial arts practioner, too. She’s right up there with the Overstock.com woman in rough and tumble accomplishments.
I’m not kidding!
Funny, I always thought she looked like Donald Fagen during the My Old School days. A hot Donald Fagen, admittedly, but still…
If this is true, this tells me that KC in NOT stupid.
Sure she may not know what a ‘barrista’ is.
BOTOH, she sure is smart enough to make her way into a muti-million dollar contract.
Which in my word equals smart.
Sure, you could say as some one pointed out earlier, that she’s just a vessel for the company. But I don’t buy that. There’s like only a million or so way cuter and way more “book smarter” than she is. Yet she managed to not only get her foot in the door, but to succeed in her feild as well.
You don’t make it that far by being “lucky” folks. Ya’ just don’t.
Besides. What’s with the animostity against people are aren’t so well read anyway? Doesn’t that kink of parallel racism?
Gabe!..Gabe!..Please, calm down! I most assuredly did not! My loathement ( )of Katie Couric dates back to the first time her phony, crooked-smilling countenance first darkened my television screen, lo, those many years ago.
If you’ll look at my post again, you’ll see that I was referring to the lovely and talented Lynne Russell, former news anchor on CNN and a woman of considerable substance…even if she does look like the twenty-three year old Donald Fagen. :eek:
Regarding your comment on the Overstock.com woman, you’ll get no argument from me.
By your logic, Paris Hilton is a future Fields Medal Laurate. After all, she segued a no-account, super-priviliged childhood into a movie and television career.
Rich != smart.
Ha! I say. Ha!
I have nothing against the mentally indigent until they presume to start telling me what to think about the news. The intellectually-dishonest Dan Rather was bad enough, but at least he had some vestigal intelligence remaining in that alcohol-sodden brain of his. Couric and her male bimbo costar couldn’t solve the crossword puzzle on the back of a Pizza Hut placemat (ages 3 and up) between them.
On a more objective note (my predisposition to dislike The Couric), what in her professional history makes her even remotely qualified to cover hard news? Has she served in the White House Press Corps? Has she covered any major international conflicts or events? Was she even dimly aware of the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War? Can she name the heads of state of all major US opponents?
No doubt she’s not quite as dim as she appears on her fluff-news morning show, but she has less credibility as a news anchor than Harriet Miers had as a Supreme Court Justice. Heck, Geraldo Rivera has a stronger claim on hard news experience than Ms. Couric, and I wouldn’t trust that guy to count his toes twice and come up with the same number.
It’s just another attempt to pander to the ever-moving (generally in the downward direction) intellectual mean of the US.
In my experience, anytime I’ve been in the home of someone who watches The Today Show and the subject of Katie Couric comes up, it’s invariably followed by: “I just love Katie…she’s so cute!”
To her audience, her qualifications don’t mean squat!
Yep, like it or not. It’s been said not just by me but other people who happen to be in the business that she does indeed have good business savy. And I’d venture to say people in the business and have met Paris personally would know better than you or me.
Um, do you have an intelligent arguement here or did your three year old just get a hold of your computer? :dubious:
All though you have a rather “Holier than thou” take on this; I agree that there are far better qualified news anchors out there.
)of Katie Couric dates back to the first time her phony, crooked-smilling countenance first darkened my television screen, lo, those many years ago.
