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Palin Doesn't Help Couric Ratings
"The CBS Evening News gained only about 10 percent in audience from the previous week — and it was actually down from the same week the year before." [Times]
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Palin Reads 'All' Magazines And Newspapers
Sarah Palin spent some more time with Katie Couric, her new undermining roommate, who seems to have accumulated like 20 months worth of interview material, all of it horrifically damaging to the Republican vice presidential nominee. This time around, Palin couldn't name any newspapers or magazines she regularly reads, except for "all of them," which she clarified to mean whatever four-year-old copy of U.S. News she finds in the waiting room at her dentist's office. Then she didn't know what the morning after pill was. Katie was like, "whatever, I'm so out of here." Then Palin said she "loved" her lesbian friend, and Katie got excited again, about seeing Palin naked and "unfiltered" at the big debate. When will Palin finally vote Couric out of her sorority house and end this embarrassment? Cringe for her in the attached clip (click the video icon to watch). More » -
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More Couric Disasters Push Palin Back To Safety Of Talk Radio
Sarah Palin just keeps going back for more car-wreck interviews with Katie Couric. After forecasting a possible Great Depression and saying something indecipherable about her state's relations with Russia, the Republican vice presidential nominee reportedly went silent when called on to name Supreme Court cases other than Roe V. Wade. Also, in the attached clip, Palin and John McCain both implausibly try to blame "gotcha journalism" for reporting on Palin's support for cross-border raids into Pakistan, a position shared by Barack Obama and attacked by McCain during the presidential debate. (Click the video icon to watch.) Now, Politico reports, the Republican ticket is pulling Palin back to the safer waters of right-wing talk radio. Putting McCain's popular-but-inexperienced running mate in front of more TV cameras was a calculated gamble by the campaign to broaden her appeal. It's now safe to say that it failed.
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By Ryan TateComment by ae38: Here is my conspiracy theory in full: This is all a ruse. The Republicans and their faithful pundits are planting... 20 Responses | Other threads
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Worst Of Sarah Palin's Katie Couric Interview (So Far)
The first half of Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric aired tonight and it's already making the wrong sorts of headlines. This is looking a lot like Palin's train wreck sit-down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson. (Video of the most damaging moments — this time around — after the jump.) More »
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By Ryan TateComment by llamalash★: She was much more charming this time around, though. Sadly, personality IS (almost) everything. And as much as I hate... 11 Responses | Other threads
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Katie Couric Won't Go Cheaply
"If [CBS head] Les Moonves wants to get rid of her, he's got to shell out around $40 million. He's tried to get her to move on, and she was like, 'Fine. I'll leave - where's my money?'" [Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by unclevanya: Les has to keep Couric, she's his alibi for not giving the job to his humble and undemanding wife, Chenbot... more » | Other threads
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Uncensored Katie Couric Is Kind Of Hot
So we were vaguely aware Katie Couric had a YouTube channel, but had no idea the CBS Evening News anchor put so much energy into it. It's almost as though she feels stifled at work! Can't imagine why that would be. Anyway, Los Angeles Times writer Matea Gold watched all the videos so you don't have to, and wrote up the highlights, which we've assembled into a quick montage after the jump. Couric snaps Larry King's suspenders, chats up the paparazzi, sings with Bette Midler, makes a Saturday Night Live joke and hangs out barefoot with a bunch of mom bloggers. More » -
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Television Reporting Is Also "Glamorous"
The sad state of bloggers and Long Island reporters is well-documented. But things are hard out there for TV reporters, too. Covering a flood for CBS News, Hari Sreenivasan nearly got hypothermia after his waders sprung a leak. But who wouldn't sacrifice a leg or two for that shot of a guy knee-deep in water? Fortunately, March Madness ramped up, America lost interest in natural disasters in the fly-by states, and Sreenivasan was mercifully allowed to return to dry land. [CBS News] -
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Ben Sherwood Spotted In CBS Early Show Talks
On Friday we asked if former Good Morning America producer Ben Sherwood was in talks about running CBS' Early Show following the departure of disastrous producer Shelley Ross. Since then, TVNewser spoke to "insiders" who said Sherwood talked to CBS executives about the job, and we got a tip that Sherwood was seen last week having drinks with CBS Evening News producer Rick Kaplan, who is running the Early Show on an interim basis. The tipster said the two were seen "far, far away from the office." (Photo via BenSherwood.com.) -
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Ben Sherwood In CBS Early Show Talks?
Is there any truth to the rumor that former Good Morning America Executive Producer Ben Sherwood is the leading candidate to replace Shelley Ross, who was just fired from the top spot at CBS' "Early Show?" Sherwood, who is married to Imagine Films executive Karen Kehela, is said to be represented in the talks by Alan Berger. Email us: tips@gawker.com
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Katie Couric's trip to Iraq resulted in a new record low in the ratings race for "CBS Evening News." Still, there's an upside: "If CBS' hiring of Katie Couric was all about damaging the NBC Today show (rather than boosting the CBS Evening News) it's working. Today 'has lost about 360,000 viewers' in the past year, including 12% of women aged 25-54." [Kausfiles]
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By abalkComment by flyoverstate: Maybe she should put on a black sparkly bikini and kind of lip sync while sort of doing a bad... more » | Other threads
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Everybody Talks About The Weather, But CNN Covers The Hell Out Of It
- Harry McCracken, who resigned as EIC of PC World in a dispute with the mag's CEO, has been reinstated. The CEO has been reassigned. [Wired] More »
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Katie Couric Quite Possibly Leaving CBS News, Unless She's Not, Which Is What CBS News Says
This morning's Philadelphia Inquirer ran a piece by Gail Shister positing that Katie Couric would leave the CBS Evening News anchor chair after the 2008 election. It's a story full of hedges (the first two paragraphs contain a "may," a "possibly," and a "there's a growing feeling") and CBS News was quick to refute it. More »
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By abalk2Comment by AndIAmTellingYou: Two words: Exit strategy Typical CBS management strategy: Just throw the idea out there, see how it resonates, find out people... more » | Other threads
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Katie Couric Becomes First Female Anchor To Stand In Front Of Desk For 1:27
On Monday night the CBS Evening News experienced some technical difficulties, forcing Katie Couric to stretch her words out and eventually shut the show down early. But, pro that she is, Katie didn't pull a Dan Rather and storm of the set. No, she stood there, for eighty-seven agonizing seconds, interrupted by commercial break, as the credits rolled. You might think that spending a minute and a half watching a woman standing in front of her desk is a waste of time, but it's oddly transfixing. Hypnotic, even. Our Richard Blakeley has produced a clip with a bonus second counter so you can enjoy each moment. If this whole anchor thing doesn't work out (and, if recent ratings are any indication, it won't) Katie might want to consider running for lieutenant governor.
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Media Bubble: Tumbleweeds
• If you watched Katie Couric on Monday night you're in a pretty exclusive club. [Drudge Report] More » -
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Tiffany Network Evolving Into Something Worth Aborting
So, how to make sense of yesterday's tragic school shootings? The random assault of an unbalanced figure who was angry at life? An indictment of the ready availability of guns in this country? The inevitable effects of a culture where violence is fetishized and glorified? Well, if you're the folks at CBS Evening News, you open the floor to another viewpoint: It's all because of evolution and abortion. Get ready to be appalled! We never thought we'd say this, but maybe there is such a thing as too much free speech. Either way, there's too much "freeSpeech." More » -
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Media Bubble: The Way You Say Good-Night
• Warner Music has signed a licensing agreement with YouTube; Sumner Redstone immediately rehires Tom Freston to fire him again. [NYT] More » -
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Jon Friedman Finally Tells You Something You Won't Hear Anywhere Else
Yesterday Jon Friedman wrote a column about Katie Couric that began, "Katie Couric, at first, lived up to all the hype surrounding her move from NBC's "Today" show to "The CBS Evening News." Couric's show finished first in the much-followed television ratings on her first few nights after her ballyhooed debut on Sept. 5. In a remarkably short time, even by American television standards, Couric has slipped and her program fell back to a position that CBS unhappily knows all too well — third place, trailing NBC and ABC." More »
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