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Title: CBS chief calls Rather comments `sexist' [Rather says Couric is dumb]
Source:
AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612 ... t=AolkTzb58.HBJLqXnI02yhKuGL8C
Published: Jun 12, 2007
Author: SETH SUTEL
Post Date: 2007-06-12 15:16:28 by a vast rightwing conspirator
Keywords: None
Views: 268
Comments: 11
CBS chief calls Rather comments `sexist' By SETH SUTEL, AP Business Writer2 hours, 7 minutes ago CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves shot back at former CBS news anchor Dan Rather on Tuesday, saying remarks Rather made about his successor, Katie Couric, were "sexist." Rather, speaking on MSNBC by phone on Monday, said CBS had made the mistake of taking the evening news broadcast and "dumbing it down, tarting it up," and playing up topics such as celebrities over war coverage. The comments appeared in blogs and in a story published Tuesday in the New York Daily News. While referring to Couric as a "nice person," Rather said "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, asked about the remarks at an appearance in New York sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, called the remarks "sexist" and said he was surprised at the amount of negative coverage Couric was receiving. Couric, the first solo female news anchor, has been struggling in the ratings. "She's been on the air for nine months," Moonves said. "Let's give her a break." Moonves said he "absolutely" had confidence in Couric and the direction that CBS's evening was going, saying it was imperative to reach younger audiences. Evening news broadcasts couldn't continue to have audiences that are mainly over 60, Moonves said, otherwise "the evening news will die." Meanwhile, Moonves said the network's decision last week to reinstate a canceled show called "Jericho" following an outpouring of viewer e-mails and other protests spoke to the growing influence of the Internet on broadcasters. "It was a campaign that couldn't be ignored," Moonves said of the mobilization of "Jericho" fans, saying it was "astonishing and well-organized." As part of the campaign, disgruntled viewers delivered thousands of pounds of peanuts to CBS's corporate offices, a reference to a scene in the season finale where a character replies, "Nuts!" to a demand that the town in Kansas, which had been isolated by a nuclear attack, surrender.
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#1. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0)
What if she is? Who gives a flying horse's pitute? LOL
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Would that qualify him as a 'sexist'? He didn't say he wanted to have sex with her. Did he?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
Nope. I might give her a poke just to see if it was interesting, though. Oh, is that sexist? ;0)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
It would be sexist if you attached great value and meaning to it.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
Doubt you'd like what was behind the curtain. She's all makeup.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Why would I do that? Eat the cookie, Katie. LOL
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
That is why the Lord gave us vibrating butt plugs. ;0)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Leslie Moonves, a Jew, defends Katie Couric, another Jew. Amazing.
Give 'em both the butt plug. ;0)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Dunno what Rather's on about......Couric's coverage of the the PH case was brilliant, incisive and comprehensive. Moments in TV "news" glory - at noon eastern, CNN-International runs it's flagship newshour, seen in Europe around 6pm and Baghdad at 8pm and Bombay around 10:30. Last week, they led with the heiress. One could kinda, vaguely, in a TV Fluffernutter brain dead kindofway see why it would lead in the US, but in a "newscast" that competes with the BBC and other regional news outlets across the world, the reaction was most likely costernation at the emphasis placed by allegedly grown and intelligent adults to highlight the Perils of Paris.
She IS dumb. By definition, a good chunk of both sexes are kinda stupid. The fact is, she's a lightweight with a fairly pleasant personality and the intellectual capability of a very bright gerbil. And CBS took a huge and stupid risk, and lost. People who watch the evening news want a wrap-up of the day's events, not a cheerleader chit-chatting with Rush Limbaugh.
Rather says Couric is dumb
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
#3. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#2)
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
#5. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
#6. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#4)
if you attached great value and meaning to it.
#7. To: IndieTX (#5)
She's all makeup.
#8. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0)
#9. To: karelian (#8)
Leslie Moonves, a Jew, defends Katie Couric, another Jew.
#10. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0)
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