Katie Couric: I Need a Loan to Gas Up My Minivan
August 15th, 2005 10:24 AM
As Mark Finkelstein accurately noted earlier this morning, NBC’s Today gave big play to the supposed havoc that rising fuel prices are having on American society. But the hype reached ridiculous levels when Katie Couric insisted during Monday’s show opening that “I had to take out a loan to fill up my minivan. It’s crazy.”Couric makes at least $15 million a year co-hosting Today.Here’s how Couric…
NBC's Today Champions Anti-Bush “Raging Grannies
August 8th, 2005 8:39 PM
Monday's Today on NBC devoted over seven minutes of its last half hour to a friendly story and interview with “raging grannies,” some elderly women in Tucson who hold small rallies outside military recruiting offices where they don big, colorful hats and sing song parodies, such as “we're here to stop the war machine, don't get in our way!", "Halliburton profits from war," “taxes unending,…
Couric Parrots Clinton Swipe at Bush Security Budget
July 8th, 2005 1:37 PM
Today show co-host Katie Couric concluding an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about his agency's response to the London bombings yesterday departed from the apolitical, unbiased questions she'd been asking to showcase Senator Hillary Clinton's criticism of the Bush administration's budgeting for railway security.
