Sharp Phil
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- May 6, 2003
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When CBS replaced Dan "Falsified Documents Reported Mere Days Before a National Election" Rather -- you know, the guy who said it didn't matter that the evidence was false and easily identified as false, as long as it harmed George Bush? -- they found some old dude who resonated with the oldsters and lefties who liked Rather. Then they hit on this brilliant plan. Who on the face of the Earth had less journalistic integrity, objectivity, and credibility than Dan "Homespun Simile" Rather?
Why, Katie Couric, that's who.
Couric, who rose to fame as the Rosie O'Donnell of her timeslot, lobbing softballs at Democrats and Liberals while viciously attacking anyone even remotely identified with Republicans and Conservatives whenever she gave the latter a rare interview, was tapped to become the first female primetime news anchor at the Big Three. We know she's female, because among other innovations, they found a way to seat her in front of the camera so we could see her legs. Score one for journalism.
This morning, while driving in, I heard a laughable segment on NPR, the United States' publicly subsidized Al Jazeera. The piece was all about how, despite the fact that Katie's ratings are now lower than those of Dan Rather's rebound anchor replacement, it's not really Katie's fault. No, it must be her executive producer (who was just fired). It's not Katie's fault that she has no credibility or that she's been gleefully reporting "soft news" instead of the propaganda (excuse me, "hard news")for which the CBS Evening News was previously supposed to be famous. Not only that, it's the changing face of the media, the rise of Internet and 24-hour cable news outlets, the fact that the blogosphere has so much influence, the action of sunspots on our atmosphere, a vast right-wing conspiracy... ANYTHING but the possibility that maybe viewers don't trust Katie Couric to read the news at them!
While the influence of the Mainstream Media (MSM) is indeed waning thanks to the multiple alternatives now available, somebody's gotta be last, and you can bet that somebody is going to be the person the public trusts least to report the news. Katie stopped doing that a long time ago; she never, in fact, actually started. She's never been a journalist. She's always been a leftist propaganda mouthpiece. CBS new what it was getting when it hired her, and only reluctantly fired Rather for being a less attractive, much older, much stranger version of the same thing.
But it's not Katie's fault. Not really.
Why, Katie Couric, that's who.
Couric, who rose to fame as the Rosie O'Donnell of her timeslot, lobbing softballs at Democrats and Liberals while viciously attacking anyone even remotely identified with Republicans and Conservatives whenever she gave the latter a rare interview, was tapped to become the first female primetime news anchor at the Big Three. We know she's female, because among other innovations, they found a way to seat her in front of the camera so we could see her legs. Score one for journalism.
This morning, while driving in, I heard a laughable segment on NPR, the United States' publicly subsidized Al Jazeera. The piece was all about how, despite the fact that Katie's ratings are now lower than those of Dan Rather's rebound anchor replacement, it's not really Katie's fault. No, it must be her executive producer (who was just fired). It's not Katie's fault that she has no credibility or that she's been gleefully reporting "soft news" instead of the propaganda (excuse me, "hard news")for which the CBS Evening News was previously supposed to be famous. Not only that, it's the changing face of the media, the rise of Internet and 24-hour cable news outlets, the fact that the blogosphere has so much influence, the action of sunspots on our atmosphere, a vast right-wing conspiracy... ANYTHING but the possibility that maybe viewers don't trust Katie Couric to read the news at them!
While the influence of the Mainstream Media (MSM) is indeed waning thanks to the multiple alternatives now available, somebody's gotta be last, and you can bet that somebody is going to be the person the public trusts least to report the news. Katie stopped doing that a long time ago; she never, in fact, actually started. She's never been a journalist. She's always been a leftist propaganda mouthpiece. CBS new what it was getting when it hired her, and only reluctantly fired Rather for being a less attractive, much older, much stranger version of the same thing.
But it's not Katie's fault. Not really.