Iraq is ratings drag for Katie Couric
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If some people thought traveling to Iraq and Syria was a ratings stunt for Katie Couric, it didn't work out that way. The "CBS Evening News" tied a record low with just under 5.5 million viewers last week, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday. Last week and Memorial Day week are the two least-watched CBS evening newscasts since at least 1987, and probably far earlier.
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A month after Katie Couric's heavily promoted debut as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," the viewership
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It may be too soon to anoint Katie   Couric queen of network news, but her debut as the CBS Evening   News anchor has given the program its first No. 1 finish in the   weekly ratings race in more than six years.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - Katie Couric led the "CBS Evening News" to its first weekly ratings win in more than five years but her honeymoon may be short - she slipped to third place on Monday.
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Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low and Republican support is beginning to waver, a poll published Tuesday found. In the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq, and anti-war sentiment among GOP respondents has suddenly increased.
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Burdened with a reputation for being   "perky" and "fluffy," Katie Couric debuts as "CBS Evening News"   anchor next week amid network hopes she can stem the tide of   younger viewers fleeing to Internet and cable.
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NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds. The incoming &quot;CBS Evening News&quot; anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing.
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The rising Israeli-Palestinian violence has received scant attention in a U.S. presidential campaign where foreign policy talk has been dominated by Iraq.
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Less than one in four Americans approves of President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that mirrored other recent surveys.
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By TIM CUPRISIN  The top-rated television show Sunday night wasn't ABC's much- discussed dramatization of the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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After months of preparation and promotion, after all the words written about Katie Couric's new job as "CBS Evening News" anchor, she'd like nothing more now than to just sit down and report the news. That will finally happen on Sept. 5, when Couric tells the day's top story from the set in a rebuilt newsroom on Manhattan's West Side.
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By Peter Johnson  NEW YORK -- Katie Couric's debut as CBS News anchor tonight marks new territory for viewers.
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Dec. 20, 2004 -- Americans have grown more sour on the situation in Iraq, driving down the president&#39;s ratings on the war and on terrorism more broadly, and fostering majority support for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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By David Bauder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK -- Katie Couric led the "CBS Evening News" to its first weekly ratings win in more than five years but her honeymoon may be short -- she slipped to third place on Monday.
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Millions of Americans can scarcely remember a weekday where Katie Couric wasn&#039;t a part of their morning routine. Maybe the &quot;Today&quot; show was on in the background when they gathered their homework for school. Later, she was there when they gulped a quick cup of coffee before work. In a few years, they&#039;d watch TV while feeding the baby and Couric was still there &amp;#151; a few hairstyles later.
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NEW YORK  - "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric says she tries not to worry about ratings, even though her third-placed newscast has failed to gain much ground in the six months since she took the job.
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Good news for Katie Couric: Lots of people know her and like her. In fact, Couric, who takes the "CBS Evening News" anchor chair Sept. 5, is better known than her soon-to-be rivals, according to a poll released Thursday by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.