KC, the reason why people "pick on poor Katie" is because, though she is seems to be a nice person, she had no business being given the position as lead anchor for the CBS Evening News! We had Dan Rather who was a legit. news anchor being replaced by Barbara Walters-lite. It's an insult to CBS who used to have a reputation of being fairly "serious" when it came to real journalism, and it's an insult to the viewers who watch the show. Did CBS honestly think that the viewers wanted puffy, watered-down news after having Dan's straight forward approach for all those years? PLEASE!
As for being "taught to be nice", nice has a time and place. Commenting on the fact that Katie is WAY too overpaid for her fluff called news is quite simply stating the truth! We, as Americans, have been fed this line of crap far too long. When the news constantly reports on what Britney Spears is doing rather then the fact that New Orleans is still a complete mess, our soldiers are still being killed and maimed on a daily basis, American jobs are going overseas, the middle class is shrinking while the poor and wealthy are increasing, we have a MAJOR health insurance crisis, our own government is lying as well as spying on it's own citizens ILLEGALLY, after years of having a nuclear arms treaty other countries (thanks to our govenment)are gearing up to start the nuclear arms race all over again, our environment is going to pot, gas prices are going sky-high.... we have a right to be angry at those individuls such as Katie who are paid a hell of a lot of money to INFORM the public but aren't doing their jobs. That may not sound nice to you, but it's not nice when the media has failed so utterly in their role to society either.
KC, the reason why people "pick on poor Katie" is because, though she is seems to be a nice person, she had no business being given the position as lead anchor for the CBS Evening News! We had Dan Rather who was a legit. news anchor being replaced by Barbara Walters-lite. It's an insult to CBS who used to have a reputation of being fairly "serious" when it came to real journalism, and it's an insult to the viewers who watch the show. Did CBS honestly think that the viewers wanted puffy, watered-down news after having Dan's straight forward approach for all those years? PLEASE!
As for being "taught to be nice", nice has a time and place. Commenting on the fact that Katie is WAY too overpaid for her fluff called news is quite simply stating the truth! We, as Americans, have been fed this line of crap far too long. When the news constantly reports on what Britney Spears is doing rather then the fact that New Orleans is still a complete mess, our soldiers are still being killed and maimed on a daily basis, American jobs are going overseas, the middle class is shrinking while the poor and wealthy are increasing, we have a MAJOR health insurance crisis, our own government is lying as well as spying on it's own citizens ILLEGALLY, after years of having a nuclear arms treaty other countries (thanks to our govenment)are gearing up to start the nuclear arms race all over again, our environment is going to pot, gas prices are going sky-high.... we have a right to be angry at those individuls such as Katie who are paid a hell of a lot of money to INFORM the public but aren't doing their jobs. That may not sound nice to you, but it's not nice when the media has failed so utterly in their role to society either.