With her ratings in the basement, Katie Couric is trying to drive up her appeal by displaying her mastery of the content. But the gaffes can still happen – whether it’s the anchor’s fault or the CBS publicity staff. In the September issue of the promotional pamphlet "CBS News Report" – published locally with ads for the D.C. CBS affiliate WUSA – Couric has several "Katie Couric’s Notebook items." One of them complained that women’s magazines are still accepting ads for "light and luscious" cigarettes: "Congresswoman Lois Katz, who used to be a school nurse, has criticized the hypocrisy of magazines peddling the very health hazard their editorial pages rail against."
The only problem is there is no Rep. Lois Katz. There’s a Rep. Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara), who’s been in Congress since March 1998, when she replaced her husband Walter, who died of a heart attack the previous fall. She was a school nurse in Santa Barbara.
Couric’s commentary concluded:
In a letter to eleven magazines, she and dozens of her colleagues called on publishers to stop running them. Only four of them have responded. Not one of them has said their magazines will stop. Maybe they should all take a page from the grande dame of women’s magazines – Good Housekeeping. It stopped accepting cigarette ads in 1952. Fifty-five years later, isn’t it time for the others to follow?
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At this point and this time
September 22, 2007 - 21:56 ET by bigtimerAt this point and this time of the evening all I can do is laugh when it comes to CBS, Coric, Rather, Mapes, Imus or anything else to do with the network and their excellent work and end productivity.
Should be called the Cartoon Network soon.
details details....
September 22, 2007 - 22:12 ET by Conservative_in_mass.Katz...Capps, time for Katie to go slap someone else for her mistake. What a jackass she is.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~ Unknown
She's looking for Bush's gaffes, though
September 23, 2007 - 10:33 ET by ThisnThatYet, let President Bush say something awkward, and everyone in the country is all over him. Even when it means they have to lie to try to make up a story.
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What, do people actually
September 22, 2007 - 22:26 ET by CortillaenWhat, do people actually expect such a grand propagandist, er... reporter to do something as trivial as getting her facts correct? For shame! We all know that no newsperson should ever be held accountable for failure to check the facts, like those evil, lunatic, right-wing, demon bloggers did to that pinnacle of great news, Lord Rather.
Even typing that in parody, my fingers feel unclean now...
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so what's the latest line
September 22, 2007 - 22:31 ET by botgso what's the latest line on Katie seeing the new year in a news chair? I'd say about 1 to 3, not an odds on favorite at all.
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
Katie sucks
September 22, 2007 - 22:35 ET by bigpapaand always has,,,
I find it difficult to believe anyone (except my exwife) ever liked her..
She's like a big pill,,, hard to take..
bigpapa
September 22, 2007 - 22:38 ET by botgif ya plan to be around long don't be so coy, let us know how ya really feel
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
Katz/Capps..Uh yea I can
September 22, 2007 - 22:42 ET by mlongKatz/Capps..Uh yea I can see how you could confuse those two..NOT!!..she pulled Rather..in using something phony...I don't if it was innocent or not but this is CBS so we have a right to be suspicious of them.
"If the mothers ruled the world there would be no god**** wars in the first place." Sally Fields
Yea Mothers like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates.
CBS
September 22, 2007 - 22:44 ET by Conservative_in_mass.C Certified
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Rather,
September 22, 2007 - 22:45 ET by botgSeeBS news
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Really.....
September 22, 2007 - 23:14 ET by Scout FinchI work in a library, and read (ugh) women's magazines over lunch. They haven't had cigarette ads in years. What decade is Katie reading from???
And once again, let us pay
September 23, 2007 - 08:58 ET by AlgerHissAnd once again, let us pay proper homage to the great KD Couric by gazing upon her having her nether region inspected.
Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!
Couric
September 23, 2007 - 10:18 ET by iveseenitallWith the likes of Couric "reporting" the "news", you often can't decide whether to laugh or cry.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Katie, if your democrat friends ended tobacco subsidies......
September 23, 2007 - 12:45 ET by Dave RFirst of all, Katie, it is neither your, nor the government's business which ads are accepted or rejected by a private organization. In this case, it is up to the publishers and the readers.
Whether you like it or not, the product in question here is a legal one. When and if that changes, then the government might have a say.
Also, if you are truly concerned about this situation, then maybe you should put your money where your mouth is and try to convince some of those big-time democrats you are so clearly fond of to stop their support of tobacco subsidies.
I'm sure that Al Gore would be able to suggest things that could help to end this on-going hypocrisy on the part of our government. After all, Al used to grow the stuff.
When I'm president, privatization is off the table because it's not the answer to anything.-Hillary Rodham, September 3, 2007 AARP Legislative Conference.
Couric is following Rather's tradition of...
April 11, 2008 - 08:28 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasHahahahahaha this is all too funny. But it appears Couric is following Rather's tradition of "who gives a crap about the facts". Buh-bye Crybaby Boomer Creation Couric.
Shut up and blog! If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!