http://www.niquehappy.com/blog/2007/09/25/miss-usa-rachel-smith-disses-katie-couric/ Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.niquehappy.com/blog/2007/09/25/miss-usa-rachel-smith-disses-katie-couric/#comment-41559 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:21:01 +0000 http://www.niquehappy.com/blog/2007/09/25/miss-usa-rachel-smith-disses-katie-couric/#comment-41559 I don't think her comments were intended as a slight, but were just some ill-chosen words. Then Miss Couric's rep overreacted and turned the proverbial molehill into a mountain. So when you think about it what did she say that's so outrageous? The network of Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood, the network that once took on Joe McCarthy at his peak, caved to right-wing pressure and fired Dan Rather for daring to blow the whistle on our chickenhawk President's war record and replaced him with with a lightweight cheesecake anchorwoman that can't win the public's respect. Couric has become a joke that's dragged the CBS Evening News' ratings to record lows. Rather has talked about the Evening News being "dumbed down and tarted up." Rachel Smith is just starting her career, and she doesn't want it to end that way; who would? For the record, before she was Miss USA, she earned a journalism degree magna cum laude from a prestigious college. She also served an internship in the news department of a local TV station, so she's entitled to her opinion on the subject. She's already achieved far more than most young women her age (22), so based on her record there's a good chance when she's Couric's age she'll be taken more seriously than Couric is now. But the fact that she's issued a statement to the effect that Miss Couric's always been one of her role models confirms that the whole dustup has been a misunderstanding from the start. I don’t think her comments were intended as a slight, but were just some ill-chosen words. Then Miss Couric’s rep overreacted and turned the proverbial molehill into a mountain. So when you think about it what did she say that’s so outrageous?
The network of Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood, the network that once took on Joe McCarthy at his peak, caved to right-wing pressure and fired Dan Rather for daring to blow the whistle on our chickenhawk President’s war record and replaced him with with a lightweight cheesecake anchorwoman that can’t win the public’s respect. Couric has become a joke that’s dragged the CBS Evening News’ ratings to record lows. Rather has talked about the Evening News being “dumbed down and tarted up.” Rachel Smith is just starting her career, and she doesn’t want it to end that way; who would?
For the record, before she was Miss USA, she earned a journalism degree magna cum laude from a prestigious college. She also served an internship in the news department of a local TV station, so she’s entitled to her opinion on the subject. She’s already achieved far more than most young women her age (22), so based on her record there’s a good chance when she’s Couric’s age she’ll be taken more seriously than Couric is now.
But the fact that she’s issued a statement to the effect that Miss Couric’s always been one of her role models confirms that the whole dustup has been a misunderstanding from the start.

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