Comments on: The Katie Couric Mistake http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: C.S.Strowbridge http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74101 C.S.Strowbridge Fri, 11 May 2007 12:25:29 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74101 "My bad. I thought you meant holding up a mask of his rival and giving a crowd a nazi salute." That rival defending war crimes committed by Nazis by accusing Americans of being the perpetrators. You left out that little detail. “My bad. I thought you meant holding up a mask of his rival and giving a crowd a nazi salute.”

That rival defending war crimes committed by Nazis by accusing Americans of being the perpetrators.

You left out that little detail.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74100 Duros62 Wed, 09 May 2007 22:10:05 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74100 Hawhahahahaha! Oh, that is the funny! Ooooh me oh my, you pwned me! Now go away. Hawhahahahaha! Oh, that is the funny! Ooooh me oh my, you pwned me!

Now go away.

]]> By: Hedley http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74099 Hedley Wed, 09 May 2007 20:23:18 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74099 My bad. I thought you meant holding up a mask of his rival and giving a crowd a nazi salute. There's an Edward R. Murrow moment. My bad. I thought you meant holding up a mask of his rival and giving a crowd a nazi salute. There’s an Edward R. Murrow moment.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74098 Duros62 Wed, 09 May 2007 20:12:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74098 No, dumbass, the Special Commentary. Oh, you know what I mean, ya big silly! No, dumbass, the Special Commentary.

Oh, you know what I mean, ya big silly!

]]> By: Hedley http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74097 Hedley Wed, 09 May 2007 19:24:34 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74097 The Worst Person in the World is "in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow"? The Worst Person in the World is “in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow”?

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74096 Duros62 Wed, 09 May 2007 17:50:15 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74096 Cronkite's special commentary is no different than Olbermann's, in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow. Cronkite was right then, and that same tape is right now. Funny that. And at the very least, I'd bet he wrote that himself. Cronkite’s special commentary is no different than Olbermann’s, in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow. Cronkite was right then, and that same tape is right now.
Funny that.

And at the very least, I’d bet he wrote that himself.

]]> By: Hedley http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74095 Hedley Wed, 09 May 2007 17:06:10 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74095 In one extraordinary moment, perhaps. But Crokite didn't do the news at 6 and then go on cable at 10 with Democratic lapdogs bashing the Republicans, or vice versa. Any opinion Cronkite gave was the exception, not the rule. Not so for today's "journalists." In one extraordinary moment, perhaps. But Crokite didn’t do the news at 6 and then go on cable at 10 with Democratic lapdogs bashing the Republicans, or vice versa. Any opinion Cronkite gave was the exception, not the rule. Not so for today’s “journalists.”

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74094 Oliver Willis Wed, 09 May 2007 16:59:11 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74094 <i>Cronkite never did opinion</i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i214f5-w19w" rel="nofollow">You should crack open a history book sometime.</a> Cronkite never did opinion
You should crack open a history book sometime.

]]> By: Hedley http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74093 Hedley Wed, 09 May 2007 16:30:30 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74093 O'Reilly isn't a journalist. Neither is Katie Couric for that matter and that is her biggest problem. Despite his obvious liberal bias, there is no question that Dan Rather is/was a journalist which gave him significant credibility, until he threw it all away with the forged documents. The problem with the news today is that we don't know where the entertainment division ends and the news division starts; where the opinion ends and the journalism starts. Olberman is a perfect example. One minute he is MSNBC's O'Reilly, bashing anything Republican, and the next minute he is moderating the Republican post-debate coverage. Couple that with "journalists" who no longer want to just report the story but want to make the story or be the story (cough, cough, David Gregory), and what passes for journalism might be better off being run by the networks' entertainment divisions. Cronkite never did opinion, and Andy Rooney never did hard news. That defining line no longer exists. O’Reilly isn’t a journalist. Neither is Katie Couric for that matter and that is her biggest problem. Despite his obvious liberal bias, there is no question that Dan Rather is/was a journalist which gave him significant credibility, until he threw it all away with the forged documents.

The problem with the news today is that we don’t know where the entertainment division ends and the news division starts; where the opinion ends and the journalism starts.

Olberman is a perfect example. One minute he is MSNBC’s O’Reilly, bashing anything Republican, and the next minute he is moderating the Republican post-debate coverage. Couple that with “journalists” who no longer want to just report the story but want to make the story or be the story (cough, cough, David Gregory), and what passes for journalism might be better off being run by the networks’ entertainment divisions.

Cronkite never did opinion, and Andy Rooney never did hard news. That defining line no longer exists.

]]> By: SpiderJ http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74092 SpiderJ Wed, 09 May 2007 15:31:43 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74092 Your definition of "discredited" requires clarification. O'Reilly has been having his bullshit called out for years and years now. He's an inveterate liar and has been discredited time and again. I'm going quantity over quality here. You choose to go the other way, that's fine, I just didn't know that. Your definition of “discredited” requires clarification. O’Reilly has been having his bullshit called out for years and years now. He’s an inveterate liar and has been discredited time and again.

I’m going quantity over quality here. You choose to go the other way, that’s fine, I just didn’t know that.

]]> By: Dugger http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74091 Dugger Wed, 09 May 2007 15:16:13 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74091 "You mean, outside of Bill O'Reilly?" Did O'Reilly do something worse than forging documents to try and steal an election like Rather? I don't remember having heard that. “You mean, outside of Bill O’Reilly?”

Did O’Reilly do something worse than forging documents to try and steal an election like Rather? I don’t remember having heard that.

]]> By: SpiderJ http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74090 SpiderJ Wed, 09 May 2007 14:31:01 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74090 You mean, outside of Bill O'Reilly? You mean, outside of Bill O’Reilly?

]]> By: jimmmm http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74089 jimmmm Wed, 09 May 2007 14:30:28 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74089 Yes, Dugger, there are more discredited media employees--anybody who works at Fock Snooze, for example. Yes, Dugger, there are more discredited media employees–anybody who works at Fock Snooze, for example.

]]> By: Dugger http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74088 Dugger Wed, 09 May 2007 12:15:35 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74088 Hey you are right about Her Royal Perkiness, but Dan Rather? Is there a more discredited media employee (notice I didn't say journalist) in the country than Dan Rather. Well, maybe Mary Mapes. Hey you are right about Her Royal Perkiness, but Dan Rather? Is there a more discredited media employee (notice I didn’t say journalist) in the country than Dan Rather. Well, maybe Mary Mapes.

]]> By: Church Secretary http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74087 Church Secretary Wed, 09 May 2007 12:00:54 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74087 Rather didn't cost Kerry the election. Stupid asshole, fuckwit, right-wing, chickenshit voters who voted for the proven failure cost Kerry the election. Them, and a few well-placed Rethug secretaries of state. But millions in Iraq are the ones weeping; <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html" rel="nofollow">that ain't entirely Dan Rather's fault</a>. You do a great impression of an ignorant right-wing tool, fd. Are you sure you aren't a wingnut welfare plant? You do spend a hell of a lot of time here. Rather didn’t cost Kerry the election. Stupid asshole, fuckwit, right-wing, chickenshit voters who voted for the proven failure cost Kerry the election. Them, and a few well-placed Rethug secretaries of state.

But millions in Iraq are the ones weeping; that ain’t entirely Dan Rather’s fault.

You do a great impression of an ignorant right-wing tool, fd. Are you sure you aren’t a wingnut welfare plant? You do spend a hell of a lot of time here.

]]> By: fd10801 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74086 fd10801 Wed, 09 May 2007 04:01:41 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74086 Dan Rather may be laughing his ass off, but Sen. Kerry is weeping softly, because Rather cost him the election. Dan Rather may be laughing his ass off, but Sen. Kerry is weeping softly, because Rather cost him the election.

]]> By: Organic George http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74085 Organic George Wed, 09 May 2007 01:52:56 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74085 Andy Rooney pointed out that if CBS took Katie salary and hired reporters in every major city in the world CBS would have the world best news organization. Instead CBS is the worst; we don't count Faux Noise …. . Andy Rooney pointed out that if CBS took Katie salary and hired reporters in every major city in the world CBS would have the world best news organization.

Instead CBS is the worst; we don’t count Faux Noise ….
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]]> By: Oliver http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74084 Oliver Tue, 08 May 2007 23:11:17 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74084 <a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/katie_couric_br.html" rel="nofollow">Maybe if you read the links you wouldn't ask me to repeat myself?</a> Maybe if you read the links you wouldn’t ask me to repeat myself?

]]> By: Duros "Baby Shanks" 62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74083 Duros "Baby Shanks" 62 Tue, 08 May 2007 22:53:43 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74083 Because she isn't a journalist. She's Mary Hart without the smile. She's an info-tainer. And she has no business pretending to be a serious newsperson. Because she isn’t a journalist. She’s Mary Hart without the smile. She’s an info-tainer. And she has no business pretending to be a serious newsperson.

]]> By: outer_space http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/05/08/the-katie-couric-mistake/#comment-74082 outer_space Tue, 08 May 2007 22:26:32 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6278#comment-74082 Oliver, why don't you like katie? I mean, cant you add a few thoughts besides throwing a link and a laugh? Oliver, why don’t you like katie? I mean, cant you add a few thoughts besides throwing a link and a laugh?

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