Comments on: Rather Absurd http://pribek.net/2007/06/13/rather-absurd/ Trouble Ain't Over Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:41:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: cindy http://pribek.net/2007/06/13/rather-absurd/comment-page-1/#comment-2099 cindy Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:21:28 +0000 http://pribek.net/2007/06/13/rather-absurd/#comment-2099 Ive always understood that "tarting up" had its origins with working girls or women in general making themselves up in a manner scandelous as compared to local ladies auxiallry but take it now to mean dressing soemthing up in a gaudy way to make it look better than it is...well katie couric does just that... what works well for a morning show even if shes reporting or interviewing on an important topic does not work for an evening news broadcast...a male equivalent would be ryan seacrest reporting on Iraq...the person and the material just dont jibe...maybe dan does have a problem with female broadcasters but in the instance of couric hes right and moonves should defend his show his network and his new hire that he had approval of...he should do it in principal and in practice it hides how cloying and tootheless a lot of the cbs newscasting has become after the several seasons of the shit rather stirred up before he left that doubtless cbs felt they had to make up for..."well we can make the evening news cast a little "friendlier" and less hostile after all we still have 60 minutes" and yes dans collquialisms do inject more himself then say cronkite or brinkley and huntley ever did...but he kept those outve (for the most part) his straight news boradcasts and used em for interviews or discussions inside the broadcast or the 10-12 hours of improv broadcasting you have to do on election nights and oh my a guy with his own show to promote saying shit stirring controversial things...except for oreily olberman lou dobbs bill maher joe scarbourough etc etc ad infinitum who does that? Ive always understood that “tarting up” had its origins with working girls or women in general making themselves up in a manner scandelous as compared to local ladies auxiallry but take it now to mean dressing soemthing up in a gaudy way to make it look better than it is…well katie couric does just that… what works well for a morning show even if shes reporting or interviewing on an important topic does not work for an evening news broadcast…a male equivalent would be ryan seacrest reporting on Iraq…the person and the material just dont jibe…maybe dan does have a problem with female broadcasters but in the instance of couric hes right

and moonves should defend his show his network and his new hire that he had approval of…he should do it in principal and in practice it hides how cloying and tootheless a lot of the cbs newscasting has become after the several seasons of the shit rather stirred up before he left that doubtless cbs felt they had to make up for…”well we can make the evening news cast a little “friendlier” and less hostile after all we still have 60 minutes”

and yes dans collquialisms do inject more himself then say cronkite or brinkley and huntley ever did…but he kept those outve (for the most part) his straight news boradcasts and used em for interviews or discussions inside the broadcast or the 10-12 hours of improv broadcasting you have to do on election nights

and oh my a guy with his own show to promote saying shit stirring controversial things…except for oreily olberman lou dobbs bill maher joe scarbourough etc etc ad infinitum who does that?

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