Twinkie to deliver evening news (Page 2)

Finally this thread got around to something I like.  Basset hounds RULE!

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I don't get the indignation over katie couric doing the news while a guy like anderson cooper gets a pass.  at least katie comes from a show that requires her to have a passing knowledge of current events.  Anderson cooper came from hosting the reality show "the mole"...and he was bad at it.

As maureen dowd said in today's column, I guess all that's left is to "see if Katie Couric can be trusted with the Herculean task of appearing on camera for 5 or 10 minutes a night, reading a teleprompter."

I think she'll be just fine...of course I won't be watching her...who wants to watch a talking twinkie.

That is the real shame of it - that the news hour has become an exercise in fluff. Who better to deliver fluff than a twinkie?

running2far - They still show the news?

Exactly.  It's just an entertainment show now.  The evening news is dead, long live the internet.

Anyway, I think Chet Huntley was the best ever. 

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He was no Kent Brockman. "And I for one welcome our new insect overloards."

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In 1958 Edward R. Murrow's criticized the broadcasting industry for being "fat, comfortable, and complacent" and television for "being used to detract, delude, amuse and insulate us."

Hey, maybe Paris Hilton can be Katie's co-anchor?

Guess he didn't know about BT COJ.

Paris can DO the weather..............(that's hot)

Hah, funny.

Actually, we probably have weightier discussions here than what is found on most TV, don't you think?

Yea, probably.

Here's one problem with the internet age, though. I think most people tend to choose sites that most correspond to their beliefs, politics, ect. That limits our exposure to other thoughts and opinions.

BT is actually, in my experience, one of those rare sites with a good amount of cross polination.

It just makes me wonder what that does to the body politic. In my yut, it seemed that everyone was in synch with zeitgeist. 'Cause, I guess, most people were watching either Chet and David, Walter Cronkite, or Howard K Smith. Now, it's all over the place. Now, the zeitgeist changes so fast that it doesn't seem to be relevant anymore.

Even the word "zeitgeist" isn't used anymore, which proves my point and is probably a good thing anyway.  

I just worry a bit about what will hold us all together.

Most definitely!  And we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Renee,

I'm on the anti-Katie bandwagon as well. Wouldn't you love to be operating the teleprompter and stick in nonsense on the screen and watch her read it? Something like, "Good evening, our top story tonight, New York was invaded by an army of pig-faced boys today. In other news, I received a lobotomy as part of my signing bonus."

If she gets that Saddam interview exclusive, will she flirt with him too? :::rolls eyes:::

I've sai it before, she's a bobblehead (as is Matt)