We've been getting a lot of wisdom and insight from our beauty pageant contestants lately. First was the solution to our lack of maps/Africa/the Iraq situation uttered so eloquently by Miss Teen South Carolina, and now we have Miss USA Rachel Smith, who explained what she wants to do with her career in front of the Women In Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN?):
"I always wanted to be a reporter - maybe some TV. Who knows? Some serious news - but some modeling, too...I just don't want to end up like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously."
Now this is usually the part of the story where I would say "Couric's reps didn't have any comment," but they actually do! Couric's rep says "if she continues to offer such profound insight, she will not have to worry about anyone taking her seriously."
Oh, snap! (Did I use this phrase correctly?). But maybe we're being too hard on Miss USA. After all, they're just aren't enough hot model/anchorwomen on TV news. Of course, she's the one who fell down during the pageant, so she better practice her walking before she jumps into the modeling game.
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9-24-2007 @ 4:28PM
Oreo said...
She could be a weathergal, no one listens to you then anyways so when she's completely wrong no one will care.
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9-24-2007 @ 5:11PM
Brent McKee said...
Loved the response from Couric's rep, as reported by TVNewser: "If she continues to offer such profound insight, she will not have to worry about anyone taking her seriously."
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9-25-2007 @ 7:14PM
Robert Trebes said...
So what did she that's so outrageous?
The network of Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood, the network that once took on Joe McCarthy at his peak, caved to right-wing pressure and fired Dan Rather for daring to blow the whistle on our chickenhawk President's war record and replaced him with with a lightweight cheesecake anchorwoman that can't win the public's respect. Couric has become a joke that's dragged the CBS Evening News' ratings to record lows. Rather has talked about the Evening News being "dumbed down and tarted up." Rachel Smith is just starting her career, and she doesn't want it to end that way; who would?
For the record, before she was Miss USA, she earned a journalism degree magna cum laude from a prestigious college and served an internship in the news department of a local TV station, so she's entitled to her opinion on the subject. She's already achieved far more than most young women her age (22), so based on her record there's a good chance when she's Couric's age she'll be taken more seriously than Couric is now.
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