Katie Couric - Commentator or Anchor ?

[spiderman]

Katie Couric speaking on Tuesday about Iraq:

 

"Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of the rationale of this war," said Couric, adding that it is "pretty much accepted" that the war in Iraq was a mistake.

 

"I've never understood why [invading Iraq] was so high on the administration's agenda when terrorism was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that [iraq] had no true connection with al Qaeda."

 

Further, Couric said the Bush administration botched the war effort, calling it "accepted truths" that it erred by"disbanding the Iraq military, and leaving 100,000 Sunni men feeling marginalized and angry...[and] whether there were enough boots on the ground, the feeling that we'd be welcomed as liberators and didn't need to focus as much on security." She added "I'd feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television."

 

“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.”

 

[NorthSideSox72]

That network pretty much gave up the right to call it "news" when they hired Couric. That was their white flag.

 

[Mplssoxfan]

I'm not a fan, but did she make these comments during the Evening News or in another forum?

[spiderman]

I'm not a fan, but did she make these comments during the Evening News or in another forum?

 

It was in another forum.

 

 

[BigSqwert]

It was in another forum.

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[sox4lifeinPA]

It was in another forum.

 

 

pale sox chat?

 

that seems out of place:)

[Mplssoxfan]

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I wouldn't necessarily say that, but I would like to see a link, so I can put things in context.

 

[BigSqwert]

I wouldn't necessarily say that, but I would like to see a link, so I can put things in context.

Look at the title of the thread. Is she not an anchor because she stated her opinion about matters even though it wasn't during her broadcast?

[Rex Kickass]

Anchors routinely did commentary pieces. Cronkite did so rarely, but he did so. On Vietnam, no less. Walter Jacobson does so as well, locally. So did Ed Murrow. So does Brit Hume. David Brinkley did.

[Balta1701]

Anchors routinely did commentary pieces. Cronkite did so rarely, but he did so. On Vietnam, no less. Walter Jacobson does so as well, locally. So did Ed Murrow. So does Brit Hume. David Brinkley did.

And yet somehow I can't see Katie Couric having the cojones to stand up and say, on air:

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.