Comments on: Vote for Katie Couric's next intern

CBS launches contest for the best student journalist. The prize: an unpaid internship for CBS Evening News.

[ghostofitpast]

Inevitable

Well, if the networks choose news readers on the basis of their popularity (rather than anything more content-oriented they may bring to the job), then it should be no surprise that they choose interns the same way!

[csven]

Pathetic

"CBS will choose one student to be a full-time unpaid 2007 summer intern"

full-time.

unpaid.

I don't care how many credits a student may (or may not) get from this, if I were studying journalism, I'd steer clear of any corporation that seems to believe that people should *pay their dues* by working full-time for free.

Ms. Couric makes how much money a year???

And which network recently fired it's evening news executive producer because the show is "struggling" and the ratings are falling???

Way to go CBS.

[Crux78]

Not just National Level

Csven, sorry to tell ya but they dont pay their interns at most local level either, and if they do, it is barely minimum wage. And it is all about "paying your dues" and showing who really wants it because they dont just scam them on pay, the hours are horrible too. There are so many kids wanting to get into TV journalism that anyone hiring can pretty much do what they want under the disquise of "educational oppertunity".

[RandyLado]

cBS back to cooking up fake news again

just when you think cBS is learning from their mistakes by
letting the liar Dan Rather hang around too long... they create
this new intern program

from story : " The news stories and videos submitted must also
be reports on the issue of global warming and climate change "


I would make a video on climate change. I would show how the
climate changed thousands of times BEFORE the internal
combustion engine was invented, how entire species went
extinct BEFORE the engine came around, how the ocean level
was much higher BEFORE the engine came around. I would then
include the global fear alarmists of today, such as Al Gore flying
around in his Gulfstream private jet and how he is cashing in on
spreading fear and propaganda films. If cBS started to tell the
truth, their ratings would go up. Katie is not by default the
problem, the problem is the stuff and lies that Katie says - that
is the problem.

If Katie thinks she will improve ratings by being a lapdog
mouthpiece for Gore she is even dumber than I thought.

[gdmaclew]

Right on the Money!

Kouric is a wimp..nothing more...nothing less.
Beats me why CBS let John Roberts get away...he is a natural.
He just doesn't seem to fit in at CNN.
Whoever is making the decisions at CBS is really tanking it.
Kouric has far too many "feel good" stories and "fad stories" like Global Warming...a sham in itself.
CBS News needs and anchor who is far more business-like than Kouric who I seriously believes is "Mothering" America with the news.
The sooner CBS boots her off, the better.
Bring back Walter!

[scarlethawk]

Keepin' it perky!

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