I'm interested in what the public reaction is to her doing news. My perception is that female newscasters still have to deal with the notion that if they're attractive they're not intelligent, and if they're unattractive they're not worth watching. I know there are female personalities on the 24-hour newsnetworks, but there haven't been a lot anchoring primetime broadcast news, and every so often there's a tussle locally when a local station announces that the older female anchor has "left to pursue opportunities." I'm curious to see if the people who apparently love watching her in the morning will follow her to the evening broadcast.

ditto

Corporate newscasts don't do it for me any more. In the time it takes me to get one obvious slant from the head office I can get info from every side of an issue online.

I just don't like Katie Couric. There's this biting cynical side of her that just can't seem to help surfacing and it rubs me the wrong way.

Now, that Gretchen somethingorother from Fox News, always liked her. Straight and to the point, and without the little microexpressions of dislike so prevalent on Katie's face.

But I get my news from the web now. Or that blonde hussy on Good Day LA (just kidding, I actually love their show, except the tabloid and fashion segments)

Rereading my post above, I just had to comment that I think it's hilarious that my knowledge of a newscaster's name is in inverse relation to my viewership.

Greta Von Sustern can no longer make any facial expressions of any kind. Not after the facelift she got.

:D

When she wants to, she is one of the best hard-hitting interviewers around. Of course, that is more suited to 60 Minutes than the evening news. I don't really hold it against her that she spent most of her career doing fluff news in the morning. So has Charlie Gibson but i don't see any similar commentary that his promotion to the ABC evening news will somehow lack the necessary gravitas for reading video press releases at 6 p.m. Is the problem her experience or her gender?

Katie Couric did exactly what the format requested of her and she did it very well, as evidenced by the fact that for a decade her show was #1. I personally don't care for the format (if I watch TV at that time of the morning I watch the sports version, Cold Pizza, on ESPN2, where it is even lamer).

Morigoon, do you mean Greta Van Susteren? If so, I avoid her for no other reason that I am in a lifelong boycott of anybody who made their career off of the O.J. Simpson trial. (Fortunately, Jay Leno sucks so that is an easy one.)

I think it's something about bed. For those people who have the tube on in their bedroom (which I used to do many, many years ago) ... the likes of Johnny Carson when you fall asleep and Katie Couric when you wake up take on a sort of personal familiarity that is newsworthy when it changes after more than a decade of comfort zone.

Are you saying you want (or wanted) to bag both Johnny and Katie?;)

if available simultaneously ..... yes.

I'M glad Katie is leaving.

She has the look of Gizmo the Gremlin when she smiles and it's creepy to me. :eek:
I don't watch evening news anymore. The news is on the web alot faster then any TV show can catch up to it.