Couric Says She Can Relate to Current College Grads

Yes, one can only imagine the uncertainty facing college graduates as they move on from a $75 million contract.

Former CBS news anchor Katie Couric, who ended her $75 million, five-year run at the network last week and has yet to announce her new plans, told Boston University graduates yesterday she could “relate” to bright-eyed youths who are facing uncertainty in one of the worst job markets in a decade.

“Like the Natasha Bedingfield song says, your next chapter is still unwritten, which is both exhilarating and terrifying. And I can relate to that,” Couric said yesterday in ahumorous, well-received graduation speech at Boston University’s graduation ceremony.

Couric told the grads that she left the “Evening News” post “with a feeling of immense pride and accomplishment,” but that the move from co-anchor of the “Today” show to first solo female anchor had been “very uncomfortable.”

So uncomfortable raking in that $75 million, no doubt.

She then shamelessly used the commencement to plug her own book.

Couric also used the speech to plug her book, “The Best Advice I Ever Got,” sampling from its contents to warn students that setbacks are inevitable and “it’s how you handle that adversity that defines who you are.” Then she told students to look under their chairs.

“I’m joking! If you want the book you have to buy it,” Couric said. “Who do you think I am, Oprah?”

Classy. Whatever BU paid this twit to appear is way too much.

Couric Blames Local Lead-In for Pitiful Performance

Dumping on her co-workers

After wasting $75 million on this talentless hack, this is the return CBS gets for their investment.

Katie Couric is blaming Ch. 2's local news for her last-place finish in the network news race.

In an interview to be published next Sunday in the New York Times Magazine, Couric, who is reportedly leaving the network next month, tried to explain why she could not move the needle on the nightly news show since arriving in 2007.

"I believe we were in third place for 13 years before I got here," she told the magazine. "And I think habits, particularly with an evening news broadcast, move at a glacial pace.

"And I think that local news stations have something to do with it."

"You weren't provided a strong enough lead-in by local affiliates?" the interviewer asked.

"Some people have said that local news is really important in terms of lead-ins," Couric replied.

"I haven't really analyzed that. I'm just saying what I've read or some of the theories about it."

She hasn't analyzed it, it's just what she's read or heard about it? Well, now, if that doesn't perfectly synthesize the mind of a modern-day liberal. She has no facts to support her claim, she claims to have read about it (hey, Katie, what newspapers do you read?), or it's a theory. From where, she doesn't say.

Why bother even theorizing it might be the fact you're an ultra-liberal who can't be trusted to deliver the news in a fair and balanced manner?

The gossip is Scott Pelley will be the next anchor at CBS News. They can't do any worse than Couric. She's managed to become fabulously wealthy with a limited skill set. She should be thankful she's gotten this far, rather than blaming others for her failures. Dan Rather's ugly departure from CBS almost seems classy in hindsight.

Important Question Facing the World: Where's Katie Couric Going?

Next to the crisis in Japan, the slaughter in Libya, and Obama's basketball picks, is there a more pressing matter facing the world today than which network gets to throw money at Katie Couric in return for abysmal ratings?

CBS News may face a future without Katie Couric.

So what?

Just as the world focuses on a catastrophe across the globe, and some smaller ones here, comes another round of "What Will Katie Do" stories in advance of her contract expiration in May.

At this point, the ongoing drumbeat about what she'll do - which seems to have gone on now for three years - may just be the longest goodbye in history.

So far, the only job not the subject of a Couric trial balloon is writing this column - at least not yet. And it will stay this way until Couric actually speaks for herself.

If she's leaving, then the only game that matters will start - who will get the seat?

Let's stop dancing around the issue: CBS News executives could put a cantaloupe behind the desk and get similar Nielsen ratings to what they're getting now.

No knock on Couric, she is a superstar and a talented journalist, but when it comes to the ratings, there's little evidence that her being there or not will change the fate of "Evening News."

She's a "superstar" and a "talented journalist"? Where is the evidence of that? If she was such a star, why is nobody watching and why aren't CBS executives tripping over themselves to lock up such a talented journalist?

'What is the Internet, Anyway?'

Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel on the cutting edge of technological evolution. This is from 1994. A lot of people were already using email and were online by then. Apparently not them.

Via Daily Mail.

Compounding the Idiocy: CNN Looking to Hire Couric?

Already facing disaster with the ill-fated Eliot Spitzer fiasco, the knuckleheads at CNN may have a master stroke at the ready: Hiring the low-rated Katie Couric at some ungodly bloated salary.

Friends of Katie Couric are saying the chances of her remaining at CBS are getting slimmer.

CNN appears especially eager to sign Couric now that the new show starring ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer is off to a stumbling start.

Jeff Bewkes, the CEO of CNN's parent company, Time Warner, yesterday said that CNN has the money "to pay for some of the biggest talent in TV news" -- just when CBS was saying that the era of the big-salary anchor is ending.

"The Katie Couric deal will be the last big deal of that kind ever done," Les Moonves, the head of CBS, said this week. "Those days are over."

Couric makes a reported $16 million a year, tops among the three network news anchors -- but her contract ends in May.

"People are getting the news elsewhere," Moonves said. "When there were only three networks, you did have that public service component, where we were informing America. Now, there is nothing that Katie Couric is saying that everybody doesn't know already."

Exactly. And at $16 million per, she's probably the most overpaid person in recorded history With business decisions like this it's a wonder any executives at the networks and cable outlets (save for FNC) still have jobs. Granted, it's not a stretch to think Couric could do better than Spitzer, but she'd never compete against O'Reilly. Even the MSNBC clown on at that time would likely fare better.

Obnoxious Pig Katie Couric Goofs on Sarah Palin Behind the Scenes

What an obnoxious bitch. Painful to watch this overpaid twat struggle to even pronounce Wasilla.

Via Drudge. More from C4P.

There's No Escaping Him: Couric to Interview Obama Before Super Bowl

For a week now we've heard all the whining from the left about the pro-life ad including Tim Tebow and his mother running during the Super Bowl and how politics doesn't belong on Super Sunday. Well, could somebody let CBS know we're sick of seeing Obama every time we turn on the television?

Super Bowl Sunday will be a busy one for CBS anchor Katie Couric, but she will be far from the game.

“I’m very excited about going to the Super Bowl,” said Couric, who will anchor the “CBS Evening News” Friday from Miami. “I wish I could stay. I have an appointment with the president. That’s a good excuse.”

Before the game, Couric will conduct a live, 12-minute interview with President Barack Obama at the White House. She also offers an interview with New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees.

Couric said on Wednesday she was still formulating her questions for Obama but had solicited queries via Twitter, Facebook and local stations.

“I want it to be a good, substantive interview, but it’s the Super Bowl audience,” Couric said. “I want it to have the appropriate tone.”

I'm sure it'll be the typical Couric fluff, such as "Why are you so awesomely awesome, Mr. President?"

Hopefully by Sunday we'll see a detailed programming schedule so I know exactly when to turn to another channel to (hopefully) avoid Obama and ruin my good time.

Heartbreak: Massive Job Cuts at CBS News

I blame Dan Rather and Mary Mapes for this. Five years after their perfidy the ill effects are still being felt by CBS. The news organization lost all credibility and has just never recovered.

By Monday afternoon, staffers from Washington to L.A. were sputtering in disbelief as they heard of top producers on the chopping block—particularly Mark Katkov and Jill Rosenbaum in D.C. and Roberta Hollander and Barbara Pierce in L.A. These were seasoned veterans, part of the old school known back in the Dan Rather days as “the Hard Corps.” Over the years, they had somehow managed to outlive every big buzz saw to cut through the newsroom. They knew how to get more from less. Each thought of himself as worth five producers at ABC News. Their theme song was Merle Haggard’s “Holding Things Together.” It was hard to imagine what the already third-place morning and evening news operations would look like without them.

The most disturbing news of the day for many observers was that Larry Doyle would no longer be working for CBS News.

Mr. Doyle, according to CBS News legend, joined the organization some 40 years ago, when then D.C. bureau chief Bill Small found him working as a porter at a Washington hotel. Mr. Small promptly made Mr. Doyle the bureau’s go-to “dogrobber”—the guy you sent into nasty situations to stare down snarling subjects and get the job done. From there, Mr. Doyle gradually worked his way up the news ladder, eventually becoming the network’s top war producer, churning out great television from every hellhole on the planet—including Baghdad, where he served as the network’s bureau chief during the early years of the ongoing war.

Reached the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 2, Dan Rather recounted various stories of Mr. Doyle’s heroism in the field, including his impressive management of gun-toting teenagers in Somalia. “He’s one of the all-time greats,” said Mr. Rather. “He’s the soul of the place.”

Maybe Rather can help support him with his many millions.

Or maybe the grossly overpaid Katie Couric can.

CBSNEWS anchorwoman and 60 MINUTES contributor Katie Couric faces a dramatic pay cut at the network, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

CBS boss Les Moonves is determined to save money and trim expenses -- from top to bottom -- at the former crown jewel of broadcasting.

Couric, the highest paid TV news personality in history, commands over $14 million a year, plus bumps for non-EVENING NEWS appearances.

But her salary is now in the direct line of fire, network insiders explain, and a populist backlash against Couric's cash is said to be forming inside the newsroom.

"She makes enough to pay 200 news reporters $75,000 a year!" demands a veteran producer. "It's complete insanity."

The angry source continues: "We report with great enthusiasm how much bankers are making, how it is out of step with reality during a recession. We'll, look at Katie!"

Couric's $300,000 a week paycheck has become the obsession of disgruntled CBS staff, just as deep layoffs rock the fishbowl.

Embarrassing: Couric Recites Christmas Poem for ObamaCare

If there was even a shred of doubt the media is in the tank for the Democrats, this should remove it once and for all. It's hard to believe someone who pretends to be an objective news anchor would whore themselves out like this, but here it is. It wasn't seen on the actual CBS Evening News, but rather online. Still, can you imagine a Dan Rather or Walter Cronkite doing something like this. Oh wait a minute, yes I can.

I must ask: What's more humiliating? Prostituting yourself out for the Democrats or these photos.

H/T NewsBusters.

Viewers Prefer Dead Guy to Modern News Anchors

If you need any further evidence as to the dire state of the network evening newscasts, consider the fact the recently deceased Walter Cronkite is viewed more favorably by Americans than any of the current talking heads at CBS, NBC, and ABC.

All the Walter wannabes have a ways to go to match the dean of television newscasters who died last Friday. Americans like longtime CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite much more than the current crew of network anchors, perhaps because they see him as less ideologically liberal.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% of Americans have at least a somewhat favorable view of Cronkite, including 52% whose opinion of him is very favorable.

Only 12% have an unfavorable opinion of Cronkite, who stepped down as CBS-TV’s nightly anchorman in 1982.

By comparison, Katie Couric, who now anchors the CBS Nightly News, is viewed unfavorably by more that three times as many adults (38%). Forty-nine percent (49%) have a favorable opinion of Couric.

NBC’s nightly anchorman Brian Williams has 47% with a favorable opinion and 28% unfavorable.

For ABC anchorman Charles Gibson, favorables total 50% and unfavorables total 28%.

Could be a few reasons for this. First, Americans have far more viewing options and the percentage of the population watching any of the evening newscasts is far less than in Cronkite's days. It also stands to reason many of those who were loyal Cronkite viewers have passed on already considering his last CBS broadcast was 28 years ago.

Then there's ideology. While in his years since retirement Cronkite was unabashedly to the left, history portrays him as being non-partisan, although many would argue with that. The current anchors, on the other hand, well, it's not a stretch to call all three liberals, although a couple are better at hiding it (hint: it's the men).

In terms of ideology, only 20% of adults say Cronkite was a liberal, while nearly twice as many (39%) believe that of Couric. Just 25% say Williams is liberal, and 26% believe that of Gibson.

Seventeen percent (17%) say Cronkite was conservative, and 37% view him as a moderate. Couric is seen as conservative by 10% of adults and moderate by 27%.

Williams is viewed as a conservative by only eight percent (8%) of Americans, while 33% regard him as a moderate. Thirteen percent (13%) say Gibson is conservative, but 29% think he is a moderate.

I'd like to know what color the sky is in the world of anyone who thinks Couric is a conservative. They're either to the left of Hugo Chavez or have never seen her on the air.

For all four newscasters, however, anywhere from one-quarter to one-third of adults are not sure where they stand ideologically, which is either good news for journalists who hope to be seen as ideologically neutral or suggests that a sizable number of adults are not watching them enough to form an opinion.

I'd lean toward the latter. Considering on a strong day the three combined total about 20 million viewers, it seems many Americans have no clue who these people are and still cling nostalgically to Cronkite.

Fire the Idiots Who Hired Her

Didn't take a genius to see that Katie Couric wouldn't last long as the anchor for CBS Evening News. Forget the fact she's a third-rate talent and not very bright, but she was taking over the helm of the journalistic Titanic that was well on its way to the ocean floor after Dan Rather's perfidious attempt at swinging the 2004 presidential election.

After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 -- possibly soon after the presidential inauguration early next year.

Ms. Couric isn't even halfway through her five-year contract with CBS, which began in June 2006 and pays an annual salary of around $15 million. But CBS executives are under pressure to cut costs and improve ratings for the broadcast, which trails rival newscasts on ABC and NBC by wide margins.

Of course, today they're saying no decision has been made.

What should happen is most of the news division should be cleaned out and they should start fresh. Or just give it up entirely.

Maybe they should see if Roger Ailes would be interested.

Andrea Peyser piles on.

WHEN will someone admit the truth about Katie Couric?

Katie was trotted out to the public less than two years ago as no less than the savior of modern American communications - a woman combining Joan of Arc's zeal and Madonna's legs.

She had the gumption to smash through the glass ceiling to make the world safe for gals. Well, at least for those who rake in $15 million a year, plus a free ride to work.

But now that her career has crashed and burned into a wicked-witch-size puddle, it's time to say it: Katie screwed up on behalf of more than just one woman who had trouble reading the TelePrompTer with conviction.

She did it for all of us.

Which network is going to take a chance on an overpaid fluff ball now?

Sure, it isn't fair. Neither is it fair that Katie was paid like a queen while rival networks wiped the floor with her. And lest you think it was not her fault, the proof is in the numbers - her ratings dipped significantly from the period in which her interim predecessor, Bob Schieffer, sat in the anchor chair.

To pay Katie her king's ransom, CBS reportedly cut the salaries of network stalwarts such as Lesley Stahl, a female veteran with far better news chops.

Couric's hiring was a disaster from day one. CBS execs figured she'd bring along the same dolts who watched her on the Today Show all those years. Problem is, they were interested in fluff and makeup tips, not real news. Same thing essentially applies to Couric.

It's the idiots who hired this empty head who should follow her out the door.

Rather Decries Dumbing Down of News

Poor Dan. He longs for the days when you could just make it up instead.

Couric Producer Axed for Plagiarism

Another black eye for CBS. As if the troubled Evening News program needed any more, what with the pitiful ratings for the grossly overpaid hack, Katie Couric.

A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal.

The essay was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the item should have credited Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday.

CBS would not identify the producer fired for the transgression.

The essays are carried regularly on "Couric & Co.," the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on camera.

An editor for The Wall Street Journal called CBS News to point out the similarities of the April 4 notebook item to Zaslow's article, headlined "Of the Places You'll Go, Is the Library Still One of Them?" The pieces talk about how libraries are seen differently by children from their parents.

Couric's "blog", often written by others, has been a continuous source of amusement in recent months, and ironically enough today, they have one entitled To Be Or Not To Be...Whacked. On the second item linked below, the slobbering over Al Gore was so ridiculous, it produced an avalanche of comments which mysteriously disappeared the next morning.

Previously:

Katie Cheers on the Goracle
Katie Fears Goracle Backlash

Couric Cheers on The Goracle

Goodness, this is embarrassing.

Hi everyone.

The last time Al Gore came to Capitol Hill--six years ago--he was there to certify the electoral college results that made George Bush president.

But today it was a triumphant return, this time as a private citizen, to declare that the world faces a "planetary emergency" over climate change. And now, a lot of his skeptics agree that Gore makes a powerful point.

The scientific consensus is clear, and Gore urged Congress to listen to scientists, not special interests. He pushed for an immediate freeze on greenhouse gases, as well as cleaner power plants, more efficient cars, and stronger conservation efforts.

Gore said "a few years from now...the kinds of proposals we're talking about today are going to seem so small compared to the scale of the challenge."

Here's hoping Congress puts partisanship aside, and comes together to act boldly on global warming.

Via NewBusters.

Paging Rick Kaplan. You have a lot of work to do.

I have a hunch this may turn out like the last time Katie was pining for The Goracle, and all those comments mysteriously disappeared. We'll be sure to check back. Here's a sample, in case they have one of those funny mishaps again:

Cleaning up the air and water of this planet should be a priority. But why are we letting the "anti-carbon" zealots peddle misinformation? And why is Couric -- who is supposed to be a journalist -- making a bold declaration without considering the facts? Scientific consensus on this topic is cloudy, at best.
If you don't know about the Great Global Warming Swindle, look at its Channel 4 website before you go seeking it out. It's must-see TV.
http://www.channel4.com/science/mic
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Posted by bobm81 at 08:17 PM : Mar 21, 2007

CBS Plan to Rescue Her Perkiness

Anyone with a functioning brain could have told you Katie Couric would bomb as host of the CBS Evening News. It's bad enough the program has drifted so far left over the years that viewers abandoned the show in droves, especially with Democrat activist Dan Rather at the helm.

Then they bring in this empty head, pay her ungodly sums of money, and the ratings plummet further.

Now the plan is to bring in failed MSNBC honcho and friend of Bill Clinton, Rick Kaplan, to try and salvage the sinking ship. Let me guess: puff pieces on The Pantsuit to follow. Good luck with that, folks.

Rick Kaplan, a giant in TV journalism (he's 6-foot-7), is being brought in by CBS News President Sean McManus to rescue Katie Couric's languishing ratings from third place.

In his long career, Kaplan, 59 - a close friend of Bill Clinton - ran MSNBC until his ouster last summer. He has also run CNN and had a big role at ABC News. He will replace Rome Hartman as executive producer of "The CBS Evening News," insiders told Page Six.

"There was agreement that changes had to be made. Rome and Sean remain close colleagues, and Rome has a bright future with CBS News, but this was definitely a Sean McManus decision," one source said. "This was a competitive move, an aggressive move by Sean."

During the crucial February sweeps, CBS drew a nightly average of 7.6 million viewers to its evening newscast, trailing ABC's Charlie Gibson with 9.69 million, and NBC's Brian Williams with 9.65 million. Williams, who had been No. 1, was so upset to lose his lead that NBC removed his executive producer, John Reiss, last week.

Couric's rating are actually lower now by 120,000 viewers than her predecessor Bob Schieffer's were a year ago.

"Katie Couric makes $15 million a year, and she's a proven star. You know they weren't going to fire her," an insider said.

They should fire the people who hired her for starters.

UPDATE: More from Investor's Business Daily, via Michelle Malkin.

Media Bias: After "60 Minutes" used fake documents to accuse President Bush of avoiding war service, how could CBS News possibly stoop lower? By hiring a longtime Clinton crony to rescue its evening news show.

Couric Fears Goracle Backlash

You can't make this stuff up.

Katie: Gore Warms Up Hollywood

Along with millions of other people, I was watching the Oscars last night, checking out the dresses. (Personally, I found Penelope Cruz’s the most beautiful and tasteful of the night...)

But as the throngs of celebrities greeted Al Gore as a secular saint, I wondered if this might usher in a backlash against environmentalists. It wasn’t too long ago, afterall, that environmentalists were decried as tree-huggers, and former President Bush railed against them — trying to say it was the spotted owl against logging interests and jobs in the West.

Gore has repeatedly said the environment is not a Democratic or Republican issue; it’s a moral issue. But now that Hollywood has so completely embraced the former vice president, one wonders if this issue will be associated only with liberal causes. The Oscars may give Gore's critics ammunition to reject a school of thought that’s been validated by countless scientists worldwide. Some people I know latched on to a recent Gore global warming conference that was cancelled because of a snowstorm.

It gets worse. Read on if you can take it.

Couric is stupid enough to leave the comments open. Here's a couple of samples:

Katie, get a grip, are you really this stupid?
Al is a dope. While the earth isn't flat I can't say as much for Al's head. Ask him all he did for the "earth" while he was in office. He'll lie, but the answer is NOTHING!
Posted by av1rick at 08:18 PM : Feb 27, 2007

Traditionally, people aren't declared to be "saints" until they have been dead for awhile.

Just because Al has been brain dead for some time, shouldn't qualify him for sainthood.
Posted by pat-m1 at 07:54 PM : Feb 27, 2007

Couric should let someone who knows better have more airtime. Might help her dwindling ratings.

More ridiculous media fawning here.

Embarrassing.

Setting the women's movement back a couple of decades.

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UPDATE II: How weak is this? The comments just happened to disappear.

It's All About Katie

The insipid Katie Couric, buried in the ratings, is feeling lonely, the only woman at the table of broadcast power. You would think someone of so little talent who earns such vast sums of money would be thankful for her lot in life. But no, not this petulant twit. The arrogance and self-absorption in this piece astound.

Last Wednesday, President Bush gave his address to the country about “the new way forward” for Iraq, and lots of journalists—including me, of course—were in Washington to cover it. But before the Big Speech, there was the little-known Big Meeting.

The White House invited all the network anchors, and some cable anchors, along with the Sunday political show hosts to a meeting with unnamed VERY senior administration officials. (Obviously I know their names, but the agreement was that in order to attend the meeting, we couldn’t reveal the people who spoke to us.)

She'd be happy to drop names, but hey, you're just her audience, so pipe down.

And even though I’ve been in this business for more years than I’d like to admit, and interviewed countless Presidents and world leaders, it’s still thrilling—and even a little awe-inspiring—to get “briefed” at the White House, no matter who is sitting in the Oval Office.

Feel the adrenaline rush.

And yet, the meeting was a little disconcerting as well. As I was looking at my colleagues around the room—Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopoulos, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Wolf Blitzer, and Brit Hume—I couldn’t help but notice, despite how far we’ve come, that I was still the only woman there. Well, there was some female support staff near the door. But of the people at the table, the “principals” in the meeting, I was the only one wearing a skirt. Everyone was gracious, though the jocular atmosphere was palpable.

Forget the fact that some of these men have earned their place at the table, it's just not fair poor Katie doesn't have someone to talk girlspeak to.

The feminist movement that began in the 1970’s helped women make tremendous strides—but there still haven’t been enough great leaps for womankind. Fifty-one percent of America is female, but women make up only about sixteen percent of Congress—which, as the Washington Monthly recently pointed out, is better than it’s ever been...but still not as good as parliaments in Rwanda (forty-nine percent women) or Sweden (forty-seven percent women). Only nine Fortune 500 companies have women as CEO’s.

There you go, we're just not as good a couuntry as Rwanda. Nice worldview.

That meeting was a reality check for me—and not just about Iraq. It was a reminder that all of us still have an obligation to ask: Don’t more women deserve a place at the table too?

Certainly not, if they're as idiotic as you are.

Ian at Hot Air gives us this gem:

And while Katie fretted about her skirt and waxed poetic about the long, hard slog to shatter the glass ceiling in war-torn Fortune 500 boardrooms in tremendous strides of self-absorption, Michelle Malkin put on body armor and walked around Baghdad with the US Army without makeup or a single complaint. Which one is the feminist icon again?