I thought people might respond in this thread who had more intelligent things to say about Couric than “she’s a barbie doll” and she’s ‘all style and no substance’. Guess not.
I thought she did a good job. As someone else said, I thought the copy was a little weak, too. But, I was probably paying more attention to the whole broadcast than I normally would, too.
The whole broadcast had a gentler tone to it than we’ve gotten used to on the evening news. . .what with the Morgan Spurlock thing, and the Steve Hartman fluff piece (he’s done a lot of good stuff in the past, but his sensibilities definitely lean towards the emotional).
The weak copy gave me the impression of having been written and perfected over the last week or so and then made to fit last evening’s broadcast. Everything was just too scripted, not enough specifics and waaay to fluffy. I’m not going to be a fair judge though since I changed to NBC at the first 10 minute break.
Hopefully, they’ll announce whenever Bob Schieffer is coming back to do a piece.
You’d think with all the money CBS is throwing at her, she’d find a competent makeup staff. The pale skin around her eyes looked like she was outside all day wearing sunglasses, or in other words a negative image of Connie Chung. I tuned in just to see the opening and quickly left for my new network news home, NBC. I watched CBS religiously until last night. They canned one of the great journalists in broadcast history in Dan Rather and replaced him with a piece of fluff. Bob Schieffer was a great replacement for Dan, too bad they couldn’t make it permanent.
Seems like she spent half the day walking around with the President in the White House.
She asked him, “was your speech today a tacit ackowledgement of such-and-such in the past. . .”
I had to yell at the screen, “HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT TACIT MEANS.” Maybe it was her subtle way of pointing that out.
I didn’t really understand his answer. He kind of answered “no it wasn’t tacit”, as if it was a direct acknowledgement but then sort of said it wasn’t an acknowledgement at all. If I spoke Bush, I might have been able to figure it out.
Anyway, CBS is definitely pulling out all the stops this week. She did a good job last night, too.
BUSH: See, we’re not – we’re not interrogating now because CIA officials– feel like the rules are so vague that they cannot interrogate without being tried as war criminals. And that’s irresponsible, particularly in a time when our country could be in danger. So I’m – we wanna – in other words, the point is we wanna work with Congress and clarify the rules.
COURIC: Is this a tacit acknowledgement at all, Mr. President, that the way these detainees were handled early on was wrong?
BUSH: No, it’s not at all. It’s a – it’s a tacit acknowledgement that we’re doing smart things to get information to protect the American people. I’ve said to people we don’t torture. And we don’t.
TRUNK: You can’t make this shit up.
(anyway, they have the whole transcript up. If anyone wants to see how “Barbie Doll” did, feel free to read it)