Vote for Katie Couric's next intern

CBS News is partnering with CBS Interactive to launch a contest for its next intern. Both undergrad and graduate student journalists are eligible to enter by uploading news copy or video to Springboard, a site launched specifically for the contest.

CBSNews.com and CBS News journalists will choose entries to share on the site and allow other students to comment on the contenders. From the pool, CBS will choose one student to be a full-time unpaid 2007 summer intern for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Students must be from U-Wire schools, schools that subscribe to the free U-Wire news service for colleges, in order to participate. The news stories and videos submitted must also be reports on the issue of global warming and climate change, the work of a local "social entrepreneur" or a profile of an Iraq war veteran. Entries will be accepted through April 6 and the winning student journalist will be announced on April 30.

[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.

[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.

[scarlethawk]

Keepin' it perky!

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