Did You Miss Katie Couric’s Last CBS News Broadcast? You’re Not Alone
- Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:09am by
Billy Hallowell
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Katie Couric has officially left her post at the “CBS Evening News.” Cricket. Cricket.
Last night, she delivered her final broadcast, and included a montage of some of her work while at CBS:
The most notable issue surrounding Couric’s exit is the lack of coverage and interest surrounding it. The Los Angeles Times sums up Couric’s run on CBS quite perfectly:
She entered the job as America’s broadcast darling and leaves with the show locked in its position at the bottom of the three nightly network newscasts.
Earlier this week, the Times’ James Rainey also appropriately explored what went wrong and why CBS now finds itself at the bottom of the leader board:
In moving Couric into its celebrated anchor desk, CBS forgot that its most loyal viewers were less interested in a marquee star than in a stolid news brand. News executives aimed at broadening their audience when they should have been concerned, first, with preserving what they had. They bet that a ray of morning sunshine would appeal in the more steely evening landscape.
On another note, it is looking more likely that Couric will join ABC. To appropriately celebrate the conclusion of Couric’s news career (at least for now), let’s watch her most liberal moments while at CBS:
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Comments (227)
StevenL1955
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:37amWho is Katie Couric?
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:47pmKatie had a news program on CBS????!!!???
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:35amNever watched Katie Couric’s, barely know who she is…found her annoying and condescending from when I did see her..a true elitist snob in my opinion, just a ‘yes’ women for the network…. Viacom the evil empire…
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:34amAll I watch is local news anymore…and not very often
Report Post »Jamie
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:33amWho is Katie Couric?
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:31amWe will miss Katie’s hard hitting interview question’s like “What kind of magazines do you read?” that nearly single handedly took down Palin. When two incompetent people get together, they can end each other’s careers.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:29amInteresting.
Report Post »I didn’t realize she had a job there.
Maybe she can get a job as Arnold’s new housekeeper.
Fight for America
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:29amThe long yada yada goodbye for Couric and Oprah is getting on my last nerve.
After a test run of watching when Couric took the job, I found other places to spend my time. After I saw her in the video chuckling at Palin‘s kids’ names (even though one of her kids is named “Tully”, it further confirmed my beliefs about what was behind the mask/image.
After watching Oprah enter politics during the 2008 election, I stopped watching. While it was her right to do so, I wanted her to be neutral. So much for that.
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:28amGlad she’s gone, And no matter where she goes next? I WON”T WATCH!!!! America is sick of her and her Liberal friends.
Report Post »flavsngrace
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:28amgosh u guys… I can’t say I missed it. Nope.
Report Post »American Pride
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:28amThe Queen of Political Correctness has left the building. Hopefully this foreshadows a future where political correctness is an anathema for all.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:26amI wouldn’t call her show News.
Report Post »doglady
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:25amI watched her maybe 2 or 3 times the entire time she was on CBS. She is not a journalist in my estimation and is extremely left-wing prejudiced. Don’t care that you are gone Katie.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:25amAwwww, I missed it. Yep, on was watching FOX.
Report Post »don young
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:24amShe had a what???????
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:00pmYa know where the doctors stick that fiber-optic camera up you butt looking for polyps? She had that done without anesthesia; fully awake, that six foot snake up her butt. She wanted to know what the procedure was like.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:49pm@ stoic
they werent looking for pollups they were looking for her brain
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:23amI did not watch this media prostitute. She sold me on that concept with the colonoscopy (sp?) debacle. She is nothing more than a sensationalist, akin to Entertainment Tonight.
Report Post »wigg
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:03pmMedia Prostitute?
Report Post »I don’t care who you are……..thats funny!
smak
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:23amShe did the world a service by showing Sarah Palin to be an idiot.
What newspapers do you read?
Report Post »*Crickets*
All of them?
13th Imam
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:38amIf being an “IDIOT ” is now the prerequisite for being Pres, Barry has the market cornered. As for the millions of “IDIOTS ”that voted for Barry many are out of work, on food stamps, flipping burgers, in upside down mortgages, and many of the4m are just now realizing that Barry is not the genius he thinks himself to be.
Report Post »@10storyfallguy
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:39amWe live in a 24/7 news cycle, who reads a newspaper anymore? That‘s why they’re all going under. It‘s yesterday’s news.
Report Post »hannahh
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:19amWow that really boosted her ratings didn’t it? LOL! Looks like Saracuda had the last laugh!! LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:20amI didn’t watch a single broadcast
Report Post »matinva
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:19amNever watched her after discovering one could fly a kite insider her head.
Report Post »kc2egl
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:02pmYou mean a B-52. LOL
Report Post »joey g
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:18amdarn….missed it..oh well …good riddence anyway…bring on the next commie liberal democrat
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:18amI missed them all!
TEA!
Report Post »PER100
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:32pmdidnt miss it, just never watched it. I can hear bone heads spew anyplace, why add the lamestream media to my day. no offense to Katie. i’m sure she will do just fine as an escort service provider or what ever else she does…
Report Post »thecrow
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:17amMuch less memorable than Dan Rather’s departure:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/black-box/
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:31amHa ha ha!!!!!
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:17amShe suits morning talk better.
Put her on The View and let her cackle with the rest of the hags until she is put out to pasture.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:51pmlol
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:12pmGreat idea, CNTRLFRK. She can sit there and feign outrage with Joy (the world’s most inappropriately named person) Behar and Whoopi (c’mon, really?) Goldberg any time a conservative gets into the spotlight. Day after day, year after year, until they all drop dead from the smell of Baa-Baa Walters’ halitosis.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:16amHey Billy
“Katie Couric has officially left her post at the “CBS Evening News.” Cricket. Cricket.
Its like this:
“Katie Couric has officially left her post at the “CBS Evening News.” (;;;crickets chirping;;;)
…my pleasure Billy :-)
Report Post »El Paco
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:23amWill you be my Katie Couric??
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:16amKatie’s biggest scoop.
Report Post »Lady Gaga idolizes Maddona. Journalism is dead in America.
Robert-CA
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:35amI never watched her , why should I watch her now ?
Report Post »Nope thanks .
jedi.kep
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:24pmI gave up on Kate after her totally ignorant muslim comments. She clearly had not done her job concerning research. Seriously, a Muslim Cosby Show? Little Mosque on the Prarie? What a joke.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:44pmShe lives in my area in NY! I have spoken to numerous people that have dealt with her in public and they all agree she is ice cold and nasty! It’s ironic that these are the same people that complain about big business and how bad they feel for the less fortunate!! Typical!
Report Post »Gita
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:14amBbye bye bbye.. Never liked you, never watched you, always knew what you were!
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:19amShe can join the ranks of Madcow, Lardball and Ohblahblahberman. No one cares.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:19amKatie who? Holmes?? Wow, she didn’t age very well at all, did she? That’s what happens when you;re married to a hyperactive Scientologist, I suppose.
Oh wait…. Wrong Katie!! Meh, they all look the same to me…..
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:21amI never watched and wherever that ratings killer lands I will be sure to not watch .
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:21amKatie who? Oh that progressive propagandist for the the White House, she was still on air huh?
Couldnt have said it better, never liked this little witch but Im sure she will be going over to the failure network with Olberdou…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:23amI missed them all .. why would I care about the “last” …
TEA!
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:26amI missed EVERY broadcast.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:27amNow that makes room for the next progressive PEZ to pop out of the dispenser. It will be more of the same.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:28amA tree falling in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does anyone even care if it fell?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:30amShe was always to Catty for me. Although her last broadcast did create seveal jobs for the cricket wranglers.
Report Post »She should have seen the writing on the wall when even the telemarkerers stopped calling.
Katy should have knew something was up when they drew her name on her office window with an erasable marker.
The name plate on her parking spot was velcroed on.
Les Moonves always said “You’re still here?”
The homeless guys outside the studios always gave her change.
DIOS BENDIGA AMERICA ... JESUCRISTO ES EL SEÑOR!
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:34amYes – don’t care.
Report Post »Please-sir-I-want-some-more
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:37amOn another note, it is looking more likely that Couric will join ABC
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I am proud to say I have never in my life watched this woman.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:41amwho cares. i haven’t watched cbs since muslim in chief got elected. bye KC, dont let the door hit you in the a## on the way out. good riddence
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:44amLiberal propaganda mouthpiece.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:48amYawwwwwwn. Wait. What happened?
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:49amThe lady that destroyed Sarah Palin will always rule in America.
Report Post »beckisnuts
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:52amThe tiny-toothed-terror’s act is getting really old. Couric is a glorified soroity girl from a priveledged background. She fancies that she‘s America’s little darling. She is not.
Report Post »siebegorman
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:02pmWho in the world is Katie Couric?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:07pmSorry – I can’t watch a video of that loser before coffee!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:07pmShe still exposed 1/2 Term Palin for the fool and moron that 1/2 term is.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:11pmKatie is to a news anchor, what Palin is to politics or leadership……. A JOKE.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:15pmKatie….who?
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:24pm@ENCINOM:
Report Post »You’ve been exposed for the fool and moron that you are countless times on this site, and yet you are still around! What’s up with that?
the_zazzy
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:25pmThis is a victory for conservatives everywhere…we got Katie fired from CBS!!!
Report Post »De minimus
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:26pmExcellent ! Exactly my reaction.
Report Post »cdk40
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:29pmGood Riddance to bad rubbish to the gummy sucker upper
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:40pmSarah 1….Katie 0
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:01pmI missed it on purpose i reckon,after i saw that she is a socialist i quite watching her 2 years ago,but have fun in whatever you do Katie,maybe she will get a Muslum hubbie and have a little house on thye prarie
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:22pmKatie… Katie who?
Report Post »six6six
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:48pmKatie has a new job. She’s on a mission to find the newspaper that Palin reads.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:07pmBye – Bye…so long… via condios..hit the road.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:21pmAfter you start the clip if you click on it again, it will pop and ad about bras. Just like Katie did so much double talk when she was anchor. Besides its just five minutes of nothing.
Report Post »mill
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:33pmNo news from a dipweed is worth listening to…too bad she’s not as great as she obviously thinks she is/was… good riddance to bad rubbish
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 3:35pmMy TV doesn’t go to the alphabet channels. Never saw her and if I happened to come across her in flames on the sidewalk I wouldn’t waste the urine to put her out.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:42pmYou mean Katie ‘The unwashed lower intestine of New York City’ Couric is no longer on the Evening News? That’s … sooooo sad … poop.
Report Post »GREENDOG
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:30pmreally going to miss her-she changed how news was broadcasted.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:10pmHer perkiness was in style once upon a time– she did try to tone it down, but then was left with…uh…nothing much. Wonder what she reads……?
Report Post »PatriotsLikeMe
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:52pmCBS‘s gain is ABC’s loss. Couric needs to go away, do us all a favor.
Couric didn’t bring down Palin, wasn’t that Tina Fey?
Loser.
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:15amShe should just retire and fade into obscurity. It would be one less annoying liberal air head.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:47amLast news cast? I thought she was a porn star.
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:49amI haven’t watched tv in 2 years.
Was she one of Charlie Sheens‘ ho’s ?
I saw a pic of her wearing glasses and holding a pen, so she must be edumacated.
or was that a straw ?
sizzle …LOL
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:16amOh the horror of her no longer being a news anchor…….not. If a station broadcasts a news program and no one listens, did it actually exist? Go have another colonoscopy … maybe this time they will find why you are so full of sh^^.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:20amDid I Miss Something ?? GAWD !!!!
Report Post »I’ll never forgive myself for that …
Bluebonnet
Posted on May 22, 2011 at 9:11pmWarned CBS she would ruin their news program. Now, she can go to ABC and ruin their news.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 23, 2011 at 9:38am.
Report Post »CBS has news?