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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"Two CBS journalists are missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the network said in a brief statement on Monday," James Glanz reports. "The dangers of reporting from Iraq have once again hit home for this network," the anchor Katie Couric said on the "CBS Evening News" Monday night. "Two of our colleagues are missing [...].
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Katie Couric will make her prime-time CBS News debut on Sept. 6 with a one-hour special tied to the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the network said Monday.
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The soft sell of successor Katie Couric by Bob Schieffer ends with this simple request: &quot;Just watch.&quot;
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Katie Couric has made the ratings race among the three network newscasts more competitive than it has been in nearly a decade.
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Katie Couric says the move to CBS would have been less appealing if she had known she'd be doing the more traditional "CBS Evening News" broadcast that she anchors now.
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After   more than four months of nonstop hype and speculation, O'Donnell made   her daytime television comeback Tuesday as moderator of The View,   kicking off a day of returns as two of the most high-profile TV   personalities make their highly anticipated homecoming to the airwaves.   (Katie Couric gets her CBS Evening News close-up tonight.)
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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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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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Brian Williams traveled to Iraq, Charles Gibson went on vacation and the competition for evening-news viewers was as heated as ever.
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Their president's approval ratings are at historic lows. The war in Iraq is grinding down their political prospects, and their party is showing deep divisions on issues such as education and immigration.
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By LAWRENCE AARON  YOU WON'T see me applauding Katie Couric's ascension to the CBS anchor throne, even though it's being treated like some great innovation in news programming. It is not.
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NEW YORK A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that, for the first, a majority of America have concluded that, given its costs, the conflict in Iraq is &quot;not worth fighting.
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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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The CBS News anchor Katie Couric is to travel to Iraq and Syria to report on the war, the executive producer of the broadcast, Rick Kaplan, said yesterday.
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A year ago at CBS&#39;  &quot;upfront&quot; presentation to advertisers, newly crowned network  star Katie Couric made a grand entrance amid hopes that her  anchorship of the &quot;CBS Evening News&quot; would boost the  third-place newscast.
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&quot;The CBS Evening News With  Katie Couric&quot; dropped to another record low in the ratings last  week, even though the anchor marked her first anniversary in  the job on a high-profile trip to Iraq and Syria.