Dan Rather says Leslie Moonves “tarting up” the evening news with Katie June 12, 2007
Posted by daveintexas in Current Events.trackback
I don’t give a rat’s ass about Moonves, Rather or Katie Couric, but I gotta say, that right there is some funny stuff.
I know, it’s an ongoing feud between a no-longer relevant Dan Rather and the guy that fired him, but anyway..
On Joe Scarborough’s (another douchebag) “Morning Joe” show, Rather had this observation:
the mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ show ethos to the ‘Evening News,’ and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience.
Moonves responded at some function about journalism I care even less about that Rather’s remarks were “sexist”. He then expressed his continued befuddlement that Katie’s numbers suck.
Earth to Les. At the risk of sounding sexist, dude, she’s a skirt. A cutesy, freckle-faced girl reading the news. You have looked at your demographics, have you not? I got no problem with it, but I’m not exactly your target audience now, am I?
Good luck with that.
Oh, and Dan?
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
Carol maureen a former nighttime anchor here in chicago, had an msnbc show that was slaughtered immediately. She was reasonable here, and I think a woman could sell it on the national level, but for her to do so, she would need some credibility.
Dan Rather lecturing about how to do hard news is funnier than a one-legged bullfrog croakin’ inside a banjo being plucked by Gene Autry.
No, I don’t know what that means, but was that enough folksy fake country-boy bullshit fer y’all?
sheesh.
Children and retired broadcasters should be seen and not heard. Wait, I don’t want to see him either. And I kind of like kids.
Ok, ok.
Children should be seen and occasionally heard, while
retiredfired, irrelevant old broadcasters should jump into a ditch whenever people approach and shove their mouths full of dirty rags to stifle the sound of their sobbing.I haven’t had enough coffee today yet
That was pretty folksy-bullshitty, yes ma’am. Nicely done!
How he managed to spout all that crap on national TV without being overcome with self-loathing, I have no idea.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IMZmh2wjfvU
spam filter?
Couric makes my skin crawl.
Something about her aura that just screams “superbitch”.
Y’know, you could tell Katie to shove it where the sun don’t shine but that venue is full.
I agree with TXMarko.
Hi’ Dave
I have no clue what this is about but I want to say hey to you…:-)))
Now I have done that…:)
She’s no more than a news reader. A $15 million dollar a year news reader. Unbelievable.