Nice work from Katie and the rest of the evening news world…
Keeping her charm in check, Katie Couric made her first foray overseas yesterday as anchor of the CBS Evening News, hosting the show from Amman, Jordan.
President Bush was to have held a summit there with Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, but the meeting was unexpectedly postponed for a day, leaving Couric and her competitors at NBC and ABC scrambling to fill their broadcasts and Bush cooling his heels. The CBS anchor was plainly primed to deflate criticism that her performance has been overly chatty since she assumed the anchor position at CBS on Sept. 5.
With a backdrop of Amman minarets that was almost identical to those of NBC’s Brian Williams and ABC’s Charles Gibson, Couric whipped through several earnest interviews with the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and three of the network’s correspondents. During her interview with Khalilzad, she awkwardly jabbed her notebook, her head tilted to one side as she asked a question.
All three evening news shows covered the same story as the main feature — the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled the violence in their homeland and have settled, at least temporarily, in neighboring Jordan.
Read the rest of the article in The Baltimore Sun.
