Couric Slams Rather: "Sloppy Work Is Sloppy Work"

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Couric also weighed in on the lawsuit recently filed by Dan Rather against CBS, in which Rather alleges he was unfairly squeezed out of CBS by network executives following a controversial 2004 story about President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service record. After evidence emerged that the story's primary documents were either faked or forged, Rather stated on air that "if I knew then what I know now, I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question."

Couric took Rather to task for his reporting. "There were things in there that were quite egregious in terms of how it was reported," she said. "And sloppy work is sloppy work...They did not dot their I's and cross their T's when it came to that story...And our job is to get right."

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Comments

[Witchitalineman]

08:27 AM on 09/27/2007

Katie Couric is in no position to judge someone else's "sloppy work". Back to morning tv Katie, enough already.

[starrianna]

03:26 AM on 09/27/2007

BITCH!
OMG Katie Couric you just lost 1 viewer!

[UserLoser]

10:59 PM on 09/26/2007

Katie Couric opened her mouth and the collective intelligence of the United States went down thats a good one.

[justaclue]

09:39 PM on 09/26/2007

Wow! Katie certainly knows all about sloppy work. Her enablers love her. What Katie Couric doesn't know about is journalism. She should spend a few years studying Dan Rather. By then she would be just good enough to shine his shoes.

[lynchie]

08:20 PM on 09/26/2007

newsreader now critic.

[mactheknife]

09:30 PM on 09/26/2007

And Blather was something more than a news reader?

He should have stuck with that instead of betraying his lunacy to the world with his phony letters.

[lynchie]

08:18 PM on 09/26/2007

she bears no resemblance to a journalist.

[Justinpassing]

07:52 PM on 09/26/2007

Couric critiquing 'sloppy'......rrriiiiiight.

[Checquoline]

07:46 PM on 09/26/2007

After the second plane hit the world trade building Katie said...on the air....I wonder if we are having air traffic problems. It speaks for itself.

[Waitaminute]

07:45 PM on 09/26/2007

moonves, moonves, you showed your arrogant ways and your total distain for the American people, when you picked the equivalent of a back alley prostitute on skide row, as a journalist. I wonder what kind of work she couric actually did for you, to get the part.

Just because you went that way, doesn't mean we will follow. No thanks, i don't swing that way.

I would think a person with all your means, would not visit that part of town for your pleasures.

[KenoshaMarge]

07:13 PM on 09/26/2007

And that has got to be the worst thing that has ever happened to Dan Rather. A real journalist scolded by a half-witted little twit with the I.Q. of a marshmallow. Shut up you silly bit**h. Every time you say something the I.Q. of the whole country deteriorates.

[raker]

06:56 PM on 09/26/2007

I just flipped by The Katie Couric Show by mistake. She was finishing an interview with Handsome pharmaceutical rep "Dr." Sanjay Gupta, and urged us to stay tuned for a People Magazine story. No thanks, Katie.

[paige]

07:45 PM on 09/26/2007

raker, I know exactly what you mean. I stopped watching because I can watch one of those gossip shows and get some of the same news. They are so geared to young audiences they aren't reporting real news anymore. It's a complete waste of time!!!

She said something I disagree with. I honestly believe it's a lie. I don't believe any of those people were mislead about the war. If I knew better how come the best minds in the US were "mislead"? They are lying because I am no intellect by any means!!

[toomuchalready]

06:29 PM on 09/26/2007

"And sloppy work is sloppy work." Pot, meet kettle.

[WolfLarsen]

06:23 PM on 09/26/2007

Katie if I want an in depth report on a colonoscopy than you are the goto person. But let's not pretend that after decades of reporting on bake sales and the latest diet makes you an expert on anything other than fluff. You are a lightweight Katie and it is not because you are a woman. Some of the best reporters in journalism today are women. You just aren't one of them. You spent your whole life being superficial and now you want people to take you seriously? Please. I think there is a cat stuck in a tree somewhere requiring your immediate attention.

Besides the day may come when you will need the support of your fellow news journalists and being the corporate stooge now may not buy you very much goodwill later. Not everyone is as vacuous and self-absorbed as yourself.

[Trittydi]

06:20 PM on 09/26/2007

And you would know Couric.
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[Kally]

06:07 PM on 09/26/2007

All I can say in reference to Katie is HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA GUFFAW GUFFAW ...ADD A BELLY LAUGH..Does she think her opinions count for anything...by the way was she perched on the edge of her desk when she said it. Again GUFFAW GUFFAW Wait wait I have to go to the bathroom.