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Couric Debuts With CBS News Exclusive: Arrest of Keith Olbermann Email Print


Couric relating news of the arrest of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

New York, NY (APE) - CBS news woman Katie Couric made her long anticipated debut last night as anchorperson for the network's flagship evening newscast. Her opening headline was an exclusive CBS report on the breaking story of the arrest of MSNBC news show host Keith Olbermann.

CBS news reported that federal authorities, working closely in conjunction with Fox network security, had taken Olbermann into custody late yesterday, just after the taping of his popular MSNBC "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" show. Olbermann had followed up a controversial editorial from the previous night with a second, calling to question the Bush administration's recent attempts at muddying history for political gain. He closed the the opinion piece with a historical reference of his own to the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, asking the president, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?".

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