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With Katie Couric getting ready to take over the Evening News at CBS, we want to know which newscaster you trust the most...
...individuals who happen to be female.This confining focus on “women” rather than “woman” often becomes clear when someone who happens to be female ascends to a new position, as occurred with Katie Couric’s recent promotion. Couric was widely lauded for being named the first solo female anchor of an evening news program—not the first woman to anchor an evening news show (in 1976, Barbara Walters became the first female co-anchor), nor the first to do it alone (which happened all the time when...
...would be revised to remove the similarities, and she added that “any phrasing similarities between [McCafferty’s] works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.” She made comparable statements later that week in interviews with the Times and Katie Couric on NBC’s Today Show.The apology did not mollify McCafferty’s publisher, Random House, which rejected the sophomore’s explanation that she unintentionally “internalized” the McCafferty novels. “Based on the scope and character of the similarities...
...strange that there are riots going on in Paris, East Timor and Kabul the very week Katie Couric leaves NBC ... Am I the only one connecting the dots here?" --TOM BODETT...
Will you watch Katie Couric? I think she'll probably read the teleprompter the same way the others did. The evening news really only has one news segment now. I heard Elizabeth Vargas say the other night, "Is the U.S. planning a nuclear attack on Iran with nuclear weapons? We'll take a closer look." Usually it's "Is there a better way to lower your cholesterol?" These people used to complain that they only had 30 minutes. But obviously they don't really want to fill more than seven...