Letters to the Editor
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I dunno about the rest of it, but
What a, I don't know, I am speechless.
Comparing baby pictures of Creepy Cruise's child to baby pictures of the heir to the British throne?
Such ignorant arrogance. What an indictment of the infotainment state of news media.
How fucking embarassing.
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Appropriate? Memorable?
This could have been a Samantha Bee segment on The Daily Show, only it wasn't funny enough, and Cheney wasn't mentioned as supervising the photo shoot at its top secret undisclosed location.
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Poor Wlater Cronkite
Is it possible to spin in your grave while you're still alive?
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Or to spell "Walter"..
While on your first cup of coffee?
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Bad and worse
Trying to justify showing celebrity fluff by first showing Prince Charles (like anyone on the planet wants to see his baby pictures?) makes this misstep even worse. Try harder Katie.
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It sounds like she's taken over the chair at Entertainment Tonight, not the top chair on a top news program in the middle of a scandle-ridden presidency and a failed war. Katie, we don't need the soft touch to tune in!
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Why Is Anyone Surprised??
And what the HELL was Cronkite thinking?! Instead passing the baton he should have shoved it up her high-toned ass! I mean geez, he didn't give Rather that kind of consideration.
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Give her a break
What's wrong with you people? Good Lord - the woman has been sitting next to Al Roker and Matt Lauer for the last 20 years for Christ's sake. Give her a chance to get her "groove" in gear....
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State Boreds
Journalism is not a profession, you are not required to pass a test to practice it like medicine, law, teaching or accounting. Even truck driving has better defined professional standards and accountability than journalism does. Anyone can be a "journalist" as the papers, tv and radio prove everyday in America. Despite that, journalism used to be something of a craft, a noble calling if nothing else, at least it once strove to find and report facts that in the estimation of its writers and editors were facts that people ought to know, particularly facts about the actions of society's rulers and managers, and the impact of those actions on individuals and society. Yes the news was "slanted". The news has always been "slanted", the particular slant dependent on which news organization was reporting the facts. Despite that, there was some accumulation of agreed on facts that everyone agreed mattered, that were relevant to the lives of most people and they were widely reported in all the news organs. The CBS Evening News has now officially become like all so-called "news" in America, just another form of entertainment, full of "facts" that are utterly irrelevant to the lives of anyone outside of the subject of the "story." Neil Postman in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" warned about the emptiness and pointlessness of our public discourse in the age of show business. CBS News, a once great news organization turned into circus hawkers. What a travesty. What a big fat bore.
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$15 million?????????
Katie came across just as I'd dreaded she would. Totally empty. Of all the great women out there ready to take an anchor chair, and prove that women are capable of doing an excellent job, they go for a cutesy bimbo like Katie. Not even her name is serious. GRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Her clothes
Whoever dressed her should be shot. That is not the look of a serious anchorwomen. Kattie, sit behind the big desk, read the important news of the day and then get the hell out. It ain't rocket science.