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Posted Monday, November 17, 2003 at 11:25 AM [GMT-6]

Is it just me, or has Katie Couric lost it? By "it," I mean, of course, her journalistic objectivity. This morning's show was a good example.

She interviewed Paul Bremer (who pointedly referred to her as "Ms. Couric," eluding the more familiar first-name basis hobnobbing that most interviewees fall prey to, taken in as they are by Her Cuteness), and led out with one statement that just really got on the wrong side of me: "we've had more than 400 military fatalities in Iraq; that's more than we experienced during the first three years in Viet Nam."

I'm sure I could hear Alec Baldwin cheering from the wings (he was on later in the show, yet another reason to switch off). Ah, yes...the old "it's another Viet Nam" card, dressed up in an ostensibly presentable suit of historical context. The moth holes in that fabric are embarrasingly large, and her failure to recognize that is pitiful. I was neither amused nor deceived.

It's getting easier and easier to jump to another alternative for my 7:00-7:30 a.m. viewing.

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I watch Fox & Friends - have for about 4 years now. I can't go back to any of the other morning shows - they seem insipid.

Posted by: jen at November 17, 2003 01:12 PM

I stopped watching "Today" 2 years ago precisely because I got sick of Katie. She's an annoying and grating little succubus.
I don't have cable anymore, but when I did, I couldn't watch "Fox and Friends." It seemed too cutesy and got on my nerves, like they were trying to be the hip morning show.
I watch "Good Morning America" now. Diane Sawyer is pleasant despite her liberal politics. I actually prefer Matt Lauer to Charles Gibson (even though I don't mind Gibson), but the Couric Factor mitigates Lauer's appeal, in my opinion. I'm a GMA man.
Does anyone watch the CBS morning show?

Posted by: Jared at November 17, 2003 03:28 PM

I generally leave for work before they come on. Though on the occasion I do get to watch it, I have found Katie too annoying.

I watch the local morning show that is done by St. Louis's affiliate.

Posted by: Christopher at November 17, 2003 05:48 PM

I really liked Soledad O'Brien when she was on the Today Show. Wonder what her morning show on CNN is like? (I know, it's CNN...maybe that's my answer.)

Posted by: Eric at November 17, 2003 08:33 PM

Ummm.... did Katie ever have any journalistic objectivity?

Posted by: Owen at November 17, 2003 09:11 PM

Owen, I wondered who would be the first to ask that question.

I don't know if there were previous issues with objectivity; perhaps she just never did the "heavy" stories that would suffer from a lack of objectivity. When you're interviewing Keanu, your politics aren't really important.

Posted by: Eric at November 17, 2003 09:19 PM

The Imus in the Morning show on MSNBC definitely isn't for everyone, and there are parts of it for which the word "juvenile" would be too quaint a description. But as for a choice between watching Couric or Imus interview a political figure I would pick Imus any day.

Posted by: George at November 18, 2003 11:10 AM

Katie Couric is an elfin twit. And I feel a lot better.

I watch the Imus Show or Fox after getting an accurate weather forecast from The Weather Channel. But NEVER Katie Couric. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER. I greatly dislike her.

Posted by: julie at November 18, 2003 12:32 PM

Way to go, George. Imus in the Morning on MSNBC is must watch morning TV. Yes, the I-Man is full of himself ... but man, can he do an interview. From time to time he does a "fluff piece" but the funny thing is, he calls it that. His interviews of US leaders are spot-on. That's just my 2 cents.

Posted by: The Parson at November 18, 2003 02:48 PM

that's more than we experienced during the first three years in Viet Nam

Depends on what you term the first 3 years of the war. I bet the Elfin Twit doesn't have a clue as to when our first advisors [troops] were in Vietnam. Our first casualty was in 1959. So the first 3 years starts then....when we only had several thousand people in the country.

Posted by: Wallace at November 19, 2003 12:27 AM

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