Okay. I didn't like the debut of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on Tuesday but I gave the newscast another chance on Wednesday and I'm not on the road to conversion.
Day Two of the Couric era featured an exclusive interview with President Bush at The White House. I know the networks periodically land one-on-one interviews with the leader of the free world-- Brian Williams with NBC had an exclusive with President Bush in New Orleans last week-- but Katie getting Bush on her second day in the chair left me thinking The White House played along with an effort to make her look more like the network command anchor, kind of like those on the West Wing payroll work to make Mister Bush look more like a president in control on a daily basis. But, more power to her and the Eye for landing this week's presidential exclusive.
My big disappointment and concern about Day Two was that for the second straight night, there were no reports from any correspondents of color in the newscast. No Byron Pitts; no Russ Mitchell: no Joie Chen; no Vince Gonzales. It was like eating bland fried chicken from Piccadilly when the spicy variety from Popeye's is so much better. And, then came the announcement that Rush Limbaugh would be the featured "freeSpeech" commentator on Thursday. Good grief! (Sigh!) Maybe she'll invite Rev. Al Sharpton to do Friday's segment.
Oh, Good Evening!
No comments:
Post a Comment