Katie Couric

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...

By Brent Baker Army 2nd Lt. Derwin I. Williams, 41, of Glenwood, Ill.; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry Regiment, Illinois National Guard, Dixon, Ill.; died July 6 in Konduz, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.

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,...

By Brent Baker A few months later when Bush selected Alito, CBS reporter John Roberts (now with CNN) filed a story on the newscast, anchored by Bob Schieffer, in which he ominously warned: “If confirmed, Alito would wipe out the swing seat now occupied by Sandra Day O'Connor, tilting the Supreme Court i...

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...

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.

CBS News Exclusive:" As he prepares to take office, Katie Couric speaks with President-elect Barack Obama about his stances on several key issues, including the Gaza crisis and the U.S. economy.

A meeting took place between three former living presidents, current president Bush and incoming president Obama. Bob Schieffer gave Katie Couric some insight into their historic meeting.

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...

As president-elect, Barack Obama came before the press careful not to overstep his boundaries but, at the same time, appear in control. Katie Couric talks with Bob Schieffer and Anthony Mason.

By Justin McCarthy JOY BEHAR: There are two other reasons I think. One of them was that Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson interview put the nail in her coffin because you saw that she was totally inarticulate, and as Bill Maher says "the sentence to nowhere was taking place."

By Brent Baker More on the CBS and CNN post-debate coverage: CBS News, with "ten undecided voters" at the CBS News studio in New York: COURIC: What did you think of this one? What struck you? COURIC: Anybody else have strong opinions about that comment? COURIC: Gregg?

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...

By Brent Baker Video/Audio: Click on frame above for video, compiled by the MRC's Michelle Humphrey, of Katie Couric, Bob Schieffer, Diane Sawyer and Chuck Todd. Matching MP3 audio (55 seconds) Lengthier quotes from the post-VP debate coverage on Thursday night, October 2:

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?

By NB Staff ALEXANDRIA, VA - In yet another example of slavish adoration, all three network evening news anchors, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, will accompany Illinois Senator Barack Obama on his trip to Europe and the Middle East in August, and deliver their daily broadcasts l...

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...

By Kyle Drennen This segment is not the first time that Smith has shown his feminist streak, as he did when he welcomed Katie Couric to CBS: "This is one old CBS hand who can't wait till she starts. Couric, for my money, is the best live television interviewer, period...And as for a woman as the solo network ancho...

By Kyle Drennen Paul Simon’s song "America" playing] HILLARY CLINTON: I'm not just starting a campaign, though. I am beginning a conversation. TED KENNEDY: It is time now for Barack Obama. HILLARY CLINTON: The campaign is going very well, very, very well. Why? What have you heard?

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.

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...

By kevin@aylwardfamily.com (Wizbang) Hillary Clinton's appearances on the Sunday shows included one with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. As it happened, it was one year after Bill Clinton's rant against Chris Wallace and the right wing conspirators at Fox News. Chris asked the Mrs. Bill about that event, and why the Clintons a...

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...

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.