From the Sept. 11, 2001 NBC “Today Show” coverage of the attacks.

Katie Couric, earlier in the coverage:

We have some video tape, I understand, that we’re going to show you from the West Bank. These are Palestinian celebrations in the wake of Tuesday’s terror attacks in the United States. Pa–apparently Palestinians took to the street chanting, ‘God is great.’ People were throwing candy, distributing candy to passers-by. The US government obviously has become increasing–increasingly unpopular, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because Palestinians feel that the US government has sided with Israel.

Katie Couric, later in the coverage:

Tom, this is an upsetting wire that just came across the transom from the West Bank. It says, “Thousands of Palestinians celebrated Tuesday’s terrorist attack in the United States, chanting ‘God is great’ and distributing candy to passers-by, even as their leader, Yasser Arafat, said he was horrified. The US government has become increasingly unpopular in the West Bank, in Gaza Strip in the past year of Israeli-Palestenian fighting with many Palestinians accusing Washington of siding with Israel.”

Looks like Couric was reading from a wire report, presumably ad libbing around it in the first case and reading word-for-word in the second.  Probably was wise to call it an “upsetting wire.”  Still, it’s quite a statement about big media that they fingered “the U.S. government” early on for blame.