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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 09:38 AM
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Couric Slipping Away - See, I told my friends this would happen!
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ABC 2x audience of Couric in NYC and LosAngeles & Chicago

Chicago - ABC was 4x Couric

ABC over CBS in Philly

I tried to watch again the other nite and she was comning across better but who wants to see things like "free speech" and the most popular sites on the Internet on nitely news. Just too much soft stuff.
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  -Couric Slipping Away - See, I told my friends this would happen! leftyladyfrommo  Sep-21-06 09:38 AM   #0 
  - When the lead story is "taking your dog to work" -  sparosnare   Sep-21-06 09:39 AM   #1 
  - One nite - after a really terrible day in Iraq - she had nothing on Iraq  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 09:44 AM   #5 
  - Or she's being sabotaged by the editorial staff  Warpy   Sep-21-06 09:45 AM   #7 
  - I liked that story,, Replacements is a very progressive company  timber84   Sep-21-06 09:46 AM   #8 
  - Should stories like that go first? I think that is the problem.  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 09:48 AM   #11 
  - I did not realize it was the lead story, I thought it was more towards the  timber84   Sep-21-06 09:49 AM   #12 
     - I didn't see it - so I don't know.  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 09:51 AM   #15 
        - It wasn't the lead story, but the dog coverage did preface the intro...  countryjake   Sep-21-06 01:07 PM   #39 
  - That's cool, but it shouldn't have been her lead story.  sparosnare   Sep-21-06 09:51 AM   #16 
  - There's more hard news on "The Daily Show".... n/t  FormerRushFan   Sep-21-06 09:53 AM   #20 
     - And probably a lot less biased, too. n/t  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 10:07 AM   #29 
  - Sometimes I want to say I feel bad for her  DireStrike   Sep-21-06 09:42 AM   #2 
  - I feel badly because there are really good women that they could  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 09:46 AM   #9 
  - Exactly... Couric will do more harm to the progress of women..  hlthe2b   Sep-21-06 10:02 AM   #24 
     - I don't think she is very photgenic, do you?  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 10:08 AM   #30 
        - Personally no... But apparently many buy into that "girl next door"  hlthe2b   Sep-21-06 12:21 PM   #34 
  - ZING!  trotsky   Sep-21-06 12:27 PM   #35 
  - If they had someone who  Nite Owl   Sep-21-06 09:43 AM   #3 
  - Exactly right! And instead of striving for the truth, she invited Pigboy  No Surrender   Sep-21-06 09:52 AM   #18 
     - Katie can apply for a job on Rush Limbaugh's staff.(eom)  oasis   Sep-21-06 10:00 AM   #22 
  - remember the problem isn't couric's per se --  xchrom   Sep-21-06 09:44 AM   #4 
  - That's what they get for hiring Corky Sherwood.  displacedtexan   Sep-21-06 09:44 AM   #6 
  - I liked Corky!  Poiuyt   Sep-21-06 12:33 PM   #36 
  - I sent this to CBS this morning:  npincus   Sep-21-06 09:47 AM   #10 
  - I liked Scheiffer, too.  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 09:50 AM   #14 
     - Exactly. I knew they were in trouble when I read  npincus   Sep-21-06 09:55 AM   #21 
        - Ugh, is right--  mattomjoe   Sep-21-06 12:36 PM   #37 
  - I watch BBC World and Lehrer..  ananda   Sep-21-06 09:49 AM   #13 
  - yep  Supersedeas   Sep-21-06 10:01 AM   #23 
  - i've seen her 3 times and the problem imo is that there is hardly any news  chimpsrsmarter   Sep-21-06 09:52 AM   #17 
  - Bill Maher is pissed at CBS's pathetic attempt at "free speech"  Selatius   Sep-21-06 09:52 AM   #19 
  - I just don't want to hear personal editorials on the nitely news.  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 10:02 AM   #25 
  - From what I can tell, he wanted to talk about religion  Selatius   Sep-21-06 10:04 AM   #27 
  - Did they give such a list to limbaugh?  calimary   Sep-21-06 10:08 AM   #31 
     - Limbaugh was on Couric's show?  Selatius   Sep-21-06 10:21 AM   #33 
        - He was evidently given one of those "Free Speech" moments.  calimary   Sep-22-06 03:45 PM   #40 
  - Watched it until Scheiffer left. Now I get my news from TDS. n/t  Akoto   Sep-21-06 10:03 AM   #26 
  - What is TDS?  leftyladyfrommo   Sep-21-06 10:06 AM   #28 
  - The Daily Show - on Comedy Central.  calimary   Sep-21-06 10:09 AM   #32 
     - sad to say, I've seen more factual news content on  gkhouston   Sep-22-06 04:02 PM   #42 
  - I don't watch CBS news since they didn't stand behind Dan Rather  greenbriar   Sep-22-06 04:13 PM   #43 
  - Local market ratings differ from the national average...  Writer   Sep-21-06 12:51 PM   #38 
     - $15 Mill a yr for Gidget does fluffy stories?  Disturbed   Sep-22-06 04:01 PM   #41 
     - Tickle me Elmo and Condi playing piano aren't fluff-calculated distraction  Supersedeas   Sep-22-06 04:23 PM   #45 
     - CBS is leading, barely, in the 25-54 demo  high density   Sep-22-06 04:14 PM   #44 
 

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