Katie Couric

Coverage Plans for Obama's Afghanistan Address

source: mediabistro.com

Katie Couric will anchor the live broadcast at 8pmET. Chip Reid will be at West Point. NBC will broadcast the address and Brian Williams will anchor a special report with analysis afterward, including an interview with John McCain. West coast "Nightly News" feeds will be updated.

Published Tue, Dec 1

Couric Heralds Obama's 'Historic Week in an Already Historic Year'

source: NewsBusters.org

Serving as a stenographer to Obama operatives trying to magnify the import of the President's schedule for the week, CBS anchor Katie Couric on Monday night trumpeted: From the Monday, November 30 CBS Evening News, with matching on-screen graphics for each planned event:

Published Mon, Nov 30

Brian Williams Thanks Obamas for 'Warm and Glittery Evening' With the 'Better Than Average' at State Dinner

source: NewsBusters.org

Like Katie Couric, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted (on NBC’s Daily Nightly blog) he was dazzled to be invited to the White House state dinner on Tuesday night. Also like Couric, he failed to explain whether a national news anchor attending a White House dinner might be comp...

Published Sat, Nov 28

Feminist Newsweek Editor Bashes Palin, Makes Excuses for Running-Shorts Cover

source: NewsBusters.org

Newsweek deputy editor Julia Baird only arrived in America in 2007 from Australia, but she knows how to play a good corporate soldier. In the wake of Newsweek’s Sarah Palin cover fiasco, she wrote a column for the November 30 issue loyally dedicated to making excuses for her editor Jon Meac...

Published Sat, Nov 28

Going Vogue: Anna Wintour Meets Alaskan Winter

source: Defamer

We know Sarah Palin isn't the biggest fan of Vogue, but we think she'd do really well guest-editing her own issue. So we've worked up a sample cover in the style of our Cover Lies feature (in which we expose how little relationship ladymags, like Sarah Palin, have to reality). While the real Vo...

Published Mon, Nov 23

Katie Couric Uses Christmas Poem To Campaign For ObamaCare

source: NewsBusters.org

Twas Katie the Anchor of CBS News Attempting a poem expressing her views That all folks should wish for Obama-type care. Though rhymes formed the ends of the lines she prepared The absence of rhythm comprising each line Resembles ObamaCare's faulty design. 

Published Mon, Nov 23

Special Captionfest: Dance, Katie, Dance

source: NewsBusters.org

A special Captionfest, inspired by Gawker, which today published photos it says are of Katie Couric from a September 5, 2006 party celebrating Couric's first spin behind the anchor desk for the CBS "Evening News." Click here and here for the Gawker stories.(h/t Jim Trotter)

Published Mon, Nov 23

Katie Couric Dances Better Than You

source: Soup Cans

How did Katie Couric celebrate her first night as the first female evening new anchor in 2006? By boogeying down at a party on the roof at Manhattan's Hudson Hotel. Gawker's been all over the pics which show the CBS News gal shaking her $15 million money-maker.

Published Mon, Nov 23