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December 4, 2007 at 15:16:29

Katie Couric; Welcome to Journalism 101

by Timothy V. Gatto Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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The question that I want to ask everyone is where is the follow-up on all of the news that we receive everyday? The most pressing question I have is for CBS and Katie Couric. If 120 American veterans are taking their lives each week as you reported a few weeks ago on The CBS Evening News, than where are the Congressional or other investigations and what has CBS done to follow-up on this story?

News stories such as this should not be left to whither and die. I imagine that there are families that have lost loved ones that want answers to why their loved ones decided to end it all. The story that you reported on must be true, if it were not I would imagine that a host of Federal “talking heads” would have nailed you and your sources to the wall. How this story got by the Federal and Corporate “censors” is still a question that I think about. I also wonder if you have been ‘advised” not to follow this story up. Do you realize that is 6,240 a year? That’s just about the same amount of people that died on 9/11 and the Iraq War combined (not counting the Iraqi people).

Where do our presidential candidates stand on this issue? Did it escape their attention that a major news outlet reported on this? Is this just another coincidence in a long string of coincidences? Have the soldiers coming back from Iraq stopped taking their lives, or are the death certificates being altered replacing suicide with “accident”.

Where is Congress on this issue? Moreover, where is Congress on any issue? Are they still running willy-nilly to sign on to the “Thought Crimes Prevention Act”. Come to think of it, are thoughts of suicide a crime? The act is, so why not the thought? Halliburton has the facilities, so why not lock up everyone that has ever thought of suicide? For that matter has anyone thought of offing their boss, their wife, the President? We could lock up everyone except the 15% that hold 90% of this nation’s wealth. We could all watch them from out TV’s at “Hotel Halliburton”. It would be like an expanded version of “survivor”. When the whole thing played itself out, we could all be let go and go back to living our lives without the parasites that are living among us now.

Katie, you shouldn’t start something that you can’t finish. The story doesn’t end when you sign off. The story ends when you report on a resolution of the problem, whether it be an investigative committee from Congress or the VA, or some kind of report that says that they have identified the underlying problem and are taking steps to correct it. Then a follow-up should be done to see if the problem has been corrected. I don’t want to “school” you in “Journalism 101”, but apparently you have nobody where you work that will tell you “what time it is”. Well I will do it for you; it’s time to stop being the voice of the teleprompter and start being a journalist. You don’t get paid to tell half the story.

That’s the way I see it.

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Former Chairman of the Liberal Party of America, Tim is a retired Army Sergeant. He currently lives in South Carolina. A regular contributor to OpEdNews, he is the author of Kimchee Kronicles and is currently at work on a new novel.

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Journalist?

Tim,
I'm sure you know, as do I, that Katie was not hired by CBS to be a journalist, but instead was hired to be a pretty face and celebrity personality to increase ratings, so lets confine our comments to the real function she was hired to perform. We all know that the msm aren't interested in reporting the news any longer, so we'll need to go to alternative sources to get the full story behind the headlines reported by the msm. Who reported this story, was it one of the cable guys or you, perhaps.

by Kenneth Briggs (125 articles, 88 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 108 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 8:42:52 PM

Tim was banned from the site for posting private email from the publisher to him on his blog, and then attacking the publisher and the site in emails and articles. OEN has no responsibility to publish articles from people who attack the site.

Tim's accusations that he was banned for his political positions are untrue. Check his articles. He repetitively wrote about and had published exactly the things he claimed he was banned for doing.

Former Chairman of the Liberal ...

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Timothy V. GattoTim was banned from the site for posting private email from the publisher to him on his blog, and then attacking the publisher and the site in emails and articles. OEN has no responsibility to publish articles from people who attack the site.

Tim's accusations that he was banned for his political positions are untrue. Check his articles. He repetitively wrote about and had published exactly the things he claimed he was banned for doing.

Former Chairman of the Liberal ...

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She did

That's why I want her to follow it up. It's a CBS story by Armand Katanien (sic?). Since she reported on it, guess whose responsibility it is to follow it up? If she can't do that, than just let her report on fluff as she usually does.

by Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 574 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 10:48:48 PM

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Munich'The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' Thomas Jefferson 1787

Re: Katie Couric; Welcome to Journalism 101

Mr. Gatto:

You're more of a Journalist than Katie Couric will every be. And as Mr. Briggs has noted, CBS hired the unenthusiastic Couric as merely another pretty face to maintain their ratings and bottom line. Journalism doesn't mean a DAM! to these reticent, corporate lamestream media shills. And sadly, nothing is going to change until more and more of these credulous Americans have said enough! Enough of this maddening charade! I stopped listening to this puppie press months ago. They've carried water for this mendacious Bush junta long enough! What's needed is an entirely new media outlet. Thankfully Amy Goodman at Democracy Now and Lenny Charles at I.N.N. Report are doing a fantastic job in provide us with in-depth facts however, they're not mainstream.

Just one other note. I loathe Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson etc. and whether they're aware of it, are doing an extreme disservice to their country.

by Munich (0 articles, 67 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 831 comments) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 10:59:23 PM

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TV news

TV news is for a visual mind f@#$. They want to sell you their idiotic ideas with sex and Couric is just one of the old whores left over still walking the streets selling her worn out ...

by Gallaher (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 608 comments) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 1:06:37 PM