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Rate Palin Talks Gibson, Couric on O'ReillyVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Thu, Nov 19

Palin called Charlie Gibson's "Bush Doctrine" question on ABC one of the "gotcha techniques" of the mainstream (or "lamestream") media and she said of the Katie Couric interview on CBS, "It was quite obvious that it was going to be an annoying interview," and that her response was the res...

Rate Notable Quotables Comedy Show Bonus Footage!

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Nov 18

By NB Staff Take a look at some extra video footage from the latest episode of NewsBusters’ Notable Quotables comedy show. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric interviewing former Vice President Al Gore provided us with so much joke material we couldn’t fit it all in.

Rate Palin Confuses Iraq And Iran In Hannity Interview (VIDEO)

Original at Huffington Post external link    Tue, Nov 17

By The Huffington Post News Team Sarah Palin picked celebrity interviewers and right-wing pundits for her book promotion tour, probably to avoid embarrassments like last year's Katie Couric interview. But even... Sarah Palin picked celebrity interviewers and right-wing pundits for her book promotion tour, probably...

Rate CBS’s Couric: Obama Calls on China to ‘Tear Down That Firewall’

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Tue, Nov 17

By Kyle Drennen At the top of Monday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric teased a story on the President’s trip to China by casting him as Reaganesque: “Mr. Hu, tear down that firewall. President Obama challenges China’s government to allow unfettered access to the internet.”

Rate Opinion: On ABC, Sarah Palin Slams the Snobbery and Arrogance of Katie Couric

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Tue, Nov 17

By Scott Whitlock From Couric interview] KATIE COURIC: What specifically, I'm curious? ROBERTS: I know. She is. Going Rogue. And she was very critical of the McCain aides. What's been their reaction? ROBERTS: That is a tease. She is teasing us. Okay. We'll see you.

Rate Palin Admits Annoyance in 2008 Interview with CBS’s Katie Couric, 'The Perky One'Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Mon, Nov 16

By Jeff Poor Sarah Palin, in an interview that is a part of the lead up to the Nov. 17 release of her new book "Going Rogue," appeared on Oprah Winfrey's TV show on Nov. 16.  Aside from the questions about the campaign, she expressed her irritation with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, or as she referr...

Rate Williams to Receive Cronkite Award

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Sun, Nov 15

•Arizona State University will present NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams with its 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism this Wednesday. CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric also won an award named for Cronkite this year. New Career Opportunities Daily: The b...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Palin Claims She Did Couric Interview Because She Felt Sorry For Her

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Fri, Nov 13

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By Noel Sheppard Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin claims in her soon to be released book that the reason she let Katie Couric interview her was because she felt sorry for the CBS "Evening News" anchor: Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. "She just has such low self-esteem,"...

Rate Fox News Regular Bo Dietl: ‘Ten Years Ago, [Katie Couric] Looked American. Today, She Looks Oriental’Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Think Progress external link    Wed, Nov 11

By Matt Corley On Monday during an appearance on Don Imus’ radio show, which is simulcast on the Fox Business Network, former George H.W. Bush appointee and Fox News regular Bo Dietl used sexist and racist language to attack CBS News anchor Katie Couric. “Katie Couric, the cougar,” said Dietl. “If she gets h...

Rate Memorial Service in Fort Hood, Texas

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Tue, Nov 10

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MSNBC simulcasts the NBC broadcast, which began at 2pmET and is anchored by Brian Williams. Fox Business Network is also carrying the memorial. Update: Before signing off, Gibson apologized for earlier referring to President Obama as "President Bush."

Rate Four Humiliating Moments from Andre Agassi's 60 Minutes Interview [Awkward]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gawker external link    Sun, Nov 8

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By Azaria Jagger Lucky Katie Couric scored the tell-all interview timed to coincide with Andre Agassi's tell-all memoir, where the ex-tennis star cops to ruining his career with a meth addiction and to wearing a toupee at the French Open. Watch CBS News Videos Online

Past Month

 

Rate Michelle Obama: "I've Learned A Lot In My Life As A Mom" [Hey Lady]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Jezebel external link    Wed, Nov 4

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By Sadie In her Glamour Women of the Year interview with Katie Couric (video after jump), Michelle Obama was strong and on-message, giving some of the best advice we've heard (and Katie Couric does a Fran Drescher impression at 15 minutes). katiecouric: Michelle Obama [CBS]

Rate CBS Says White House Is Fudging Stimulus Jobs NumbersVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Fri, Oct 30

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By Noel Sheppard When Katie Couric and the folks at CBS start doubting what the Administration says about how effective February's economic stimulus package was, you know President Obama is in trouble. COURIC: Chip Reid reporting from the White House tonight. Thanks, Chip.

Rate Katie Couric makes 'em laugh, makes 'em cry

Original at USA Today external link    Tue, Oct 27

By Ann Oldenburg Wow. I love the smell of estrogen in the afternoon," cracked Katie Couric as she took the stage at the Women's Conference. And because it's always a good idea to warm up the crowd with a joke, she told one:...

Rate CBS Takes Up White House Quest to 'De-Legitimize' Fox News, 'Irony' FNC Enabled Attack

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Fri, Oct 23

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By Brent Baker KATIE COURIC: Politicians and the media have long had a contentious relationship. It's part of the American system, but we've never seen anything quite as intense as the feud between President Obama and the Fox News Channel. Our senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield tunes in to...

Year 2009

 

Rate Imus at FBN: 'I'm More Likely to Believe Shep Smith than Katie Couric or Brian Williams'

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Sun, Oct 4

The perception is that even their news is skewed toward opinion -- not when I watch it. It's a fair news organization. It's not my job to defend them. But I'm more likely to believe Shep Smith than Katie Couric or Brian Williams. Their news is advertiser-driven." And Fox's isn't? "We're better pe...

Rate Couric Champions Obama-Obama-Oprah Olympic Quest 'Dream Team'

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Sep 30

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By Brent Baker With First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey now in Copenhagen, CBS anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday night declared “the 'Dream Team' pushing Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic summer games is nearly complete” and is now just awaiting “the team captain” -- that would be President Ba...

Rate Two Women Anchors of Network News? N.Y. Times Insists TV's Still Sexist

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Mon, Sep 7

By Tim Graham Stanley also uncharitably placed Brian Williams in a self-pitying category: Mr. Williams, who ascended to the position of NBC anchor on the shoulders of an old boys’ club, now has to reposition himself as a member of a persecuted minority, the white male anchorman.

Rate Podcast: High & Mighty Couric Scolds NYT's Errors, Forgetting Her Own Colossal On-Air Goof

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Sat, Jul 25

By Rich Noyes The TVNewser blog alerted me to Katie Couric’s “Notebook” item yesterday, in which she mocks the New York Times for making “not one, not two, but seven errors” in their remembrance of the late Walter Cronkite last week. TVNewser suggested Couric may have trying to get “payback” for an anti...

Rate Katie Couric Slams NY Times For Error-Filled Walter Cronkite Appraisal

Original at Huffington Post external link    Fri, Jul 24

By The Huffington Post News Team Katie Couric slammed the New York Times for running an error-filled article about CBS News legend Walter Cronkite. In her "Notebook" on CBSNews.com on Friday,... Katie Couric slammed the New York Times for running an error-filled article about CBS News legend Walter Cronkite.

Rate Podcast: Nets Highlight Obama's Hug at Health Forum; CNN: 'Bold Display of Presidential Concern'

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By Brent Baker NBC anhor Brian Williams set up the report on his newscast by trumpeting the “big deal” of Wal-Mart's support for Obama: “Today a big American name swung its support to President Obama. Wal-Mart has endorsed a key part of the President's plan to overhaul health care. And, as U.S. employers go,...

Rate Podcast: Flashback: Couric to John and Elizabeth Edwards, 'One Frosty, Two Straws?'

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Sat, May 23

By Brent Baker In the taped interview aired on the Thursday, July 15, 2004 Today show, Couric cued up the couple: “I know you'll be celebrating your 27th wedding anniversary. And I understand you go through a romantic ritual every year to commemorate that date. Share it with us will you?” John Edwards answ...

Rate John Ziegler, Palin Activist, Arrested At Katie Couric Award Ceremony (VIDEO)

Original at Huffington Post external link    Fri, Apr 17

By The Huffington Post News Team See, last year, Sarah Palin was interviewed by Katie Couric and Ziegler never forgave Couric for asking such terrible gotcha questions as "What newspapers do you read?" So when he heard that Couric was getting some sort of award for conducting those interviews, he apparently became wor...

Rate Couric Presses Holder from Left on Guns and Probing Bush Crimes

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Thu, Apr 9

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By Brent Baker COURIC: But that does make cooperation pretty challenging. COURIC TO HOLDER: Did someone tell you to back off? COURIC: Does closing the gun show loophole fall into those categories? COURIC: What do you think of him making those remarks to begin with?

Rate Podcast: CBS: Clock is Ticking on Economy, Need ‘Stimulus’ Now

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Mon, Feb 9

By Kyle Drennen KATIE COURIC: Tonight, 13 jobs a minute disappearing. BARACK OBAMA: These numbers demand action. COURIC: Anthony Mason has more now on the numbing numbers. OBAMA: The situation could not be more serious. COURIC: Alright. Anthony Mason. Thank you, Anthony.

Rate Amazing: Sullenberger, Flight 1549 Crew On 60 MinutesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gothamist external link    Mon, Feb 9

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By Jen Chung Photograph at left of Katie Couric and Captain Chesley Sullenberger by Sam Painter/CBS News; photograph at right of Couric interviewing the Flight 1549 crew by Aaron Tomlinson/CBS News Last night, 60 Minutes aired interviews with Flight 1549's pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, as well a...

Rate Quickie Review: 8:30 Edition of "Evening News"

Original at The TV Zone external link    Thu, Jan 29

By Verne Gay So, what did you think of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" last night? First - ever - "Evening News" edition in prime time, 8:00 p.m., which makes it a landmark in the television news business. My thoughts:... So, what did you think of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" last night? Fir...

Rate Opinion: Camille Paglia Calls Katie Couric 'Definitively the Stupidest' Journalist

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Jan 14

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By Noel Sheppard Salon's Camille Paglia believes that of all the print and television journalists that have ever interviewed her, CBS's Katie Couric was "definitively the stupidest." According to Paglia, "There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz" than that possessed by Couric.

Rate Podcast: Sarah Palin on 'Today': Katie Couric 'A Little Annoying'

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Tue, Nov 11

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By Geoffrey Dickens On Wednesday's "Today" show, Matt Lauer played a portion of his interview with Sarah Palin in Alaska where he asked Palin if his former "Today" co-anchor, Katie Couric, was "unfair," during her pre-election interview, to which Palin responded she found some of the questions, "a little...

Rate A Star is Reborn

Original at New York Observer external link    Mon, Nov 3

By Felix Gillette “I’d like an hour,” said Ms. Couric. “I really would like more time,” said Ms. Couric. “Because I think time is not our friend at the Evening News.” “I’m having an election-night rehearsal,” she said. “I’ll be dressing as Katie Couric, anchorwoman.”

Rate Opinion: Election Media Champs and Chumps

Original at Conde Nast Portfolio external link    Mon, Nov 3

By Jeff Bercovici It will probably never climb out of third place in the evening news race, but CBS earned some big-time respect in the closing weeks of the election. Katie Couric dismantled Sarah Palin with such exquisite sympathy that no one but the most blinkered partisans could accuse her of acting in ba...

Rate Podcast: Obama Needs Police Protection from Palin? Couric Suggests So

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Tue, Oct 7

By Brent Baker Over video simply showing Barack Obama walking down the steps from his airplane, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday night juxtaposed how Obama “was given a police escort to his hotel,” as if that’s anything unusual for a presidential nominee under standard Secret Service p...

Rate Opinion: "Sarah Palin and the rape kits" is not a punk rock band (but it explains her interview with Katie Couric)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily external link    Thu, Oct 2

By liza Now, how does this tie in to her interview with Katie Couric? Couric Why, in your view, is Roe v. Wade a bad decision? Couric: The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade. Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with? Couric: Can you think of any?

Rate Sarah Palin CBS Interview with Katie Couric

Original at Radically Right Ugly external link    Tue, Sep 30

Is Sarah Palin Qualified to be one heart beat away from the Oval Office? I have included both installments of the Palin interview with Katie Couric in this post along with the Saturday Night Live spoof and some additional commentary. You have to see this to believe it. But first I offer a bit of...

Rate Opinion: Mitchell Uses Tina Fey to Pick On Palin

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Sun, Sep 28

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By Geoffrey Dickens AMY POEHLER AS KATIE COURIC: You don't have any lifelines. The following is the full Mitchell piece as it occurred on the September 29, "Today" show: OBAMA: Thank you Fredericksburg! MITCHELL: McCain on ABC. AMY POEHLER AS KATIE COURIC: You don't have any lifelines.

Rate Opinion: Palin's foreign policy chopsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Thu, Sep 25

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By Eric Zorn CBS Video From tonight's installment of GOP veep candidate Sarah Palin's interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric. I'm limiting comments on this item to one word only. Adjectives preferred. And yes, "un-flippin'-believable" counts as one word. COURIC: Mock?

Rate Podcast: Couric Scolds Palin for 'Great Depression' Scare -- Which Couric RaisedVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Sep 24

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By Brent Baker KATIE COURIC: Earlier today, Senator, I spoke with your running mate, Sarah Palin, and she told me that if action is not taken, a Great Depression is quote “the road that America may find itself on.” Do you agree with that assessment?

Rate Podcast: MRC/NB's Noyes on FNC Discussing Obama's MSM GroupiesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Thu, Jul 17

By NB Staff The Big Three network news anchors are planning on traveling to Iraq with Sen. Obama, whereas McCain's Iraq trip in March was all but ignored. For example, Noyes noted, Katie Couric gave John McCain's Iraq trip a grand total of 10 seconds of coverage on the "Evening News," and yet she and...

Rate Opinion: Why the New York Times Is the Fat Kid in Kick Ball

Original at Jossip external link    Wed, Jul 16

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Figuring out why the media love to harp on the New York Times is like figuring out, um, why the media love to harp on Katie Couric: There must be a reason, but it’s sort of ambiguous. Couric, like the Times, serves a worthwhile purpose: Delivering the news and instigating debate. But also like C...

Rate CBS: White House ‘Dragging its Feet on Review of Toxic Chemicals’

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Tue, Apr 29

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By Kyle Drennen On Monday’s CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric hyped a new potential scandal for the Bush administration as she declared: "Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, a report due out tomorrow raises some serious questions about one of the most influential government agencies, the Environmenta...

Rate Opinion: Dan Rather On Les Moonves, The "Evening News," And Who Should Replace Katie When (Not If) She Goes

Original at Huffington Post external link    Tue, Apr 15

By The Huffington Post News Editors Yesterday, I spoke to former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather about the recent travails of the current anchor of that program, namely Katie Couric and the recent reports that she will be leaving her $15-million-per-year contract early. Rather gave us some thoughts on Couric and the f...

Rate Opinion: Marvin Kitman: Playing the Musical Anchor Chair Game

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Apr 14

By Marvin Kitman Bob Schieffer, 71, is an obvious choice. He can do the news from his leisure village. Schieffer's actually a serious news guy who has the right gravitas, and is the right demo. The only time The CBS Evening News ratings had gone up significantly in the last 12 years was when Schieffer took over a...

Rate Opinion: 'Absentee' EP Rick Kaplan Quickly Losing Control of The Early Show

Original at Jossip external link    Fri, Apr 11

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By david He didn’t give her much of a response. The night she told CBS brass of the job switch, she worked a full day and stayed through the night. Then, at 5:30am, she was awoke by a call from Kaplan, who was phoning from the control room to say he would match the offer she received and pay $5,000 more to kee...

Rate Podcast: Nets Remember Charlton Heston as 'Polarizing' and 'Controversial'

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Mon, Apr 7

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By Brent Baker COURIC, cutting him off: Other than education. A portion of the obituary story on the April 6 World News on ABC: DAN HARRIS: As President of the National Rifle Association, he became one of the most-polarizing figures in American politics.

Rate Podcast: Bernie Goldberg: Couric's Clinton Interview ‘Seriously Embarrassing’

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Feb 13

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By Noel Sheppard On Monday, my colleague Brent Baker reported on the "silly girl talk" that occurred the prior evening when CBS's Katie Couric interviewed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on "60 Minutes." 24 hours later, former CBS reporter Bernie Goldberg was Steve Malzberg's guest o...

Rate Couric Injects Silly Girl Talk in 60 Minutes Interview with Clinton

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Mon, Feb 11

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By Brent Baker COURIC: I knew you were gonna say that. COURIC, GIGGLING: But I'm talking about pure stamina. COURIC: Having said that, do you pop vitamins, do you mainline coffee? COURIC, GIGGLING: I don't know if I want to hear the back story on that!

Year 2007

 

Rate Podcast: MRC/NB's Bozell on FNC's 'Hannity & Colmes' About Couric on Iraq

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Sep 26

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By NB Staff An excerpt from "Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather," by Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin in the September 26 Washington Examiner: Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric pulled back the curtain on her personal views of both the war in Iraq a...

Rate Podcast: MRC/NB's Graham: Couric Comments on Iraq War a Sop to MoveOn

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Sep 26

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By NB Staff That's how MRC director of media analysis and NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham described Katie Couric's recent conversation with Marvin Kalb in which the CBS anchor laid out her liberal opinions of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.

Rate TV Guide Names TV Stars' Salaries

Original at Lightning Strikes | tampabay.com external link    Sun, Jul 29

By Eric Deggans Katie Couric (CBS Evening News anchor): $15 million Couric. Matt Lauer (NBC Today co-anchor): $12 million. Meredith Vieira (NBC Today co-anchor): $10 million. Keith Olbermann (MSNBC anchor): $4 million. Harry Smith (CBS The Early Show ...

Rate Opinion: Marvin Kitman: Anchor Aweigh

Original at Huffington Post external link    Thu, May 10

By Marvin Kitman The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric made a big splash last week recording its smallest audience for the network's evening news since 1987. It's not surprising. Since her debut eight months ago, Couric's ratings have been going down so fast she's getting the bends.

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