Katie Couric

By The Huffington Post News Team The obvious contrast is late summer 2006, when CBS trumpeted the arrival of Katie Couric at the "CBS Evening News." And the Couric hype is exactly what's kept Sawyer under the radar. ABC officials believe the attention paid to Couric's move from the "Today" show backfired, leaving CBS a dis...

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By The Huffington Post News Editors On the red carpet, Katie Couric said she talked to the Salahis quite a bit at the dinner and joked that everyone is going to be on the lookout for party crashers. Journalist Barbara Walters sat with Clinton and turned heads when she arrived as actor Frank Langella's date. More on Barack Obama

Have Helmet Head? The Case Against Hairspray As Demonstrated By Katie Couric blog) When Katie Couric first took her new position as network news anchor at CBS, I noticed that her hair style went from modern and soft to a never-moving ...

By The Huffington Post News Team Max Blumenthal Progressive Book Club/Media Matters for America review In August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her... Max Blumenthal Progressive Book Club/Media Matters for America review

By Joe Peyronnin Governor Palin devotes much of the rest of the book to telling her side of the 2008 election; it is payback time. She blames McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt, adviser Nicole Wallace and her husband, Mark (she says he has a terrible temper), and other staffers for most of her problems. Sh...

New Zealand Herald Was This Magazine Cover of Obama "Sexist?" blog) A couple of other Palin thoughts while I'm at it: watching the Katie Couric "what do you read" clip on Oprah this week was more humiliating and embarrassing ...

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...

By Jason Pinter From my perspective, Sarah Palin is better lining herself up to be a pundit (and a successful one) than a politician. Aside from the huge financial windfalls she is likely to reap on-air, there is something about her attacks on the media that feel a little petty (If Katie Couric was 'badgeri...

By Amy Alexander 1) While campaigning with John McCain last fall, you repeatedly accused then-Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists." Many more of your stump speeches contained references to Obama as promoting a "socialist" agenda. Do you still believe th...

By William Bradley Palin pretended yesterday on Oprah to have been surprised that CBS New anchor Katie Couric asked her serious questions. Palin now bashes the Wall Street bailout as an Obama scheme. Last year, when it was pushed through by George W. Bush, she backed it, but thought that it was about health care.

By Robert J. Elisberg Keep in mind that Sarah Palin had a full year to think about this. A year!! And the best she can come up with is that she should have asked the anchor of the "CBS Evening News" what she reads! One year. And that's the best that she came up with for her book. That she should have asked the anchor of the "C...

By Geoffrey Dunn Going Rogue: An American Life By Sarah Palin; with Lynn Vincent HarperCollins; 413 pages; $28.99 When Sarah Palin burst onto the American stage little more... Going Rogue: An American Life By Sarah Palin; with Lynn Vincent HarperCollins; 413 pages; $28.99

By The Huffington Post News Editors On "Oprah" today Palin referred to Katie Couric as "the perky one," called Levi Johnston "Ricky Hollywood," and talked 2012. She also addressed her meeting with Tina Fey on the set of "SNL" saying the pair standing next to each other confused Fey's baby:

By The Huffington Post News Team Winfrey began the interview by asking Palin if she felt snubbed at not getting an invitation to "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last year. Winfrey said she didn't have any candidates on her Chicago-based show during the campaign because of her support of President Barack Obama.

By The Huffington Post News Editors With the publication of her Going Rogue set for Tuesday, Palin appears on Monday's "Oprah" and will appear in a five-part interview with Barbara Walters for ABC News. The Walters interview will air on "Good Morning America," "World News," and "Nightline" Tuesday, continue on "GMA" Wedn...

By Max Blumenthal Kill him!" a man shouted at a campaign rally in Clearwater, Florida, when Palin linked Obama to terrorism, according to Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank. The next time she mentioned Obama, another man cried out, "Terrorist!" "Treason!"

By The Huffington Post News Team During his decades at CBS News, Cronkite came to be known as "the most trusted man in America." Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer spoke of attending a book party with Brokaw, ABC's Peter Jennings and CBS' Dan Rather. There he ran into Cronkite, whom he asked to join the anchor triu...

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.

By Arianna Huffington That's why I was delighted to accept YouTube's invitation to do a video offering my "big picture" take on citizen journalism. Here it is (thanks to HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff, Eyes and Ears Editor Matthew Palevsky, and Robert Greenwald and the team at Brave News Films Studio for all their h...

By Katie Couric So, I did what any self-respecting journalist with a built in bully pulpit would do...I had a colonoscopy on national television. At one point, loopy on anesthesia, I believe I told the world that I had a pretty little colon. I was fortunate to be able to reach a large audience, and colonoscopy sc...

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...

By The Huffington Post News Team Katie Couric is interviewed by Rebecca Traister for the April issue of Elle magazine. Unsurprisingly, given that Traister writes about women's issues for Salon, the... Katie Couric is interviewed by Rebecca Traister for the April issue of Elle magazine. Unsurprisingly, given that Traist...

By The Huffington Post News Team NEW YORK — After two years of relentlessly bad ratings news, Katie Couric finally has something she can smile about. The "CBS Evening News" anchor... NEW YORK — After two years of relentlessly bad ratings news, Katie Couric finally has something she can smile about.

By Katherine Thomson Live from New York was the real John McCain alongside Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." McCain took a break from the campaign trail to open the show poking fun at his own campaign's finances following Obama's blockbuster infomercial. Earlier in the day McCain appeared in Vir...

By Nick Graham Sarah Palin took a break from the campaign trail to appear on "Saturday Night Live" in two skits, where she watched Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin) in a skit about Palin's first press conference alongside SNL honcho Lorne Michaels. Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg also made appearances in the open...

By The Huffington Post News Team There are perils, however. Three weeks ago McCain abruptly canceled an appearance on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," leading its star to target insults at the candidate for show after show. McCain had said he needed to return to Washington to deal with the financial crisis, but Lett...

By Nick Graham Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live to reprise her widely hailed impersonation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The sketch mocks Palin's recent interview with CBS News' Katie Couric (played on SNL by Amy Poehler), touching on Palin's trip to New York and her comments about Russia and...

By The Huffington Post News Team A polished, multi-millionaire, American woman in a gray pants suit, subtle makeup that highlights her blue eyes, and a winning smile is not an unusual sight in the executive lounge on the 17th floor of Tel Aviv's Hilton Hotel. But this particular woman is none other than Katie Couric, who i...

By The Huffington Post News Team NEW YORK — Television news' royalty will fly in to meet Barack Obama during this week's overseas trip: CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday.

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...

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...

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.