Every so often, the headlines are terrific. Get 'em, old media!
 

fascinating, maybe... but surprising??

(what expectations have we laid on her? was there even a CHANCE she could meet them, even if she almost walked on water??)

the next woman will have a better chance because of Katie Couric -- it's just that Katie Couric won't have much of a chance...

of course, if she's safely stashed away the money she made as a morning entertainer, she'll be OK even if she has to leave her present job prematurely....

how many women have that sort of protection when they try to be the "first woman _____" and almost inevitably make a dent enough for their successors to profit from but not enough to sustain the pioneer herself??
 

Not so sure this is about women generally as much as it is about a dislike of Katie Couric, or a refusal to accept her as an anchor rather than a morning host....
 

I grew up in a foreign country, where the news was *read* by competent news-readers who gave succincy, detailed broadcasts (including turning to correspondents in the field), and who varied, if not each night, then a couple or more times a week. So there'd be three faces you knew generally, rather than one.

This always seemed perfectly fine to me. I have never understood the American preoccupation with anchormen: of finding the one face or voice that can last for years, marketing that face or voice, putting his name in the broadcast ("The Evening News with Richard Bradley"), etc., etc.

In other words, so long as Katie Couric can read, or read aloud, how bad can she be?
 

EADW,

Precisely right -- this obsession with anchorpeople is a serious peeve of mine. But I would phrase it the other way -- as long as her job is just to read, how GOOD can she be? Not very. No substance.

But she's also an interviewer, and the question there is indeed How bad can she be (a good interviewer is generally not noticed, cuz s/he stays out of the subject's way). And the answer is Very. Worse, in fact, on the substance of her opinions and her attacking of those who bring facts to the table, than Soledad O'Brien.

She has moreover gone out of her way to include right-wing opinion-makers, including in her first week on the show Rush Limbaugh, without what I would consider proper balancing.

But these are opinions I don't intend to document, cause the O'Brien thing I did took much too long.

Standing Eagle