Katie Couric
 

Personally, she makes me ill, but that isn't what this is about.

Why the huge media frenzy about one of their own switching from one high profile job to another high profile job?

One thing that has always disturbed me about the media is when they make themselves the story. Does anyone really care that she's moving from Today to the CBS Nightly News? Perhaps some people do and I'm just missing it.

I guess I'm confused because this is ALL over the media and has been for a while. In my newspaper. On several news oriented web sites. On TV.

Am I missing something, or is this something newsworthy?

Sure, the fact that she's moving can be news. But that's all there is to say about it.

The celebrity "goodbyes" and the "let's celebrate Katie" junk that's been going on on the Today show are a little pitiful.

What's not to get? She's a bonafide icon of American culture. As Katie goes, so goes the nation. To legions of her fans not having her perpetually perky persona greeting them at the start of each day will be a true loss.




oww, I think I just pulled a muscle trying to keep a straight face....

Her leaving the Today show is an event of some noteworthiness. Kind of like the retirement of Johnny Carson was back in '92. Part of the newsworthiness is that the job change is a certain redefinition of what we will expect from the evening news anchor of one of the networks and therefore it is newsworthy as a milestone in the shifting of popular culture.

Plus there is the fact that we all tend to assume that the big things in what we are most interested in is big news to everybody (and thus we are all a little shocked to be walking around Disneyland and hear somebody say "Country Bear Jamboree is gone!") and this is big news to the people who decide what news is big so there is some bias.

Personally I don't care because I've watched maybe five hours total of the Today show over the last decade and I haven't watched one of the evening network news programs in longer than that.

If I hadn't decided to respond to this thread, Ms. Couric's job change would have never come up for me in conversation.

Don't watch network news, I've got the interwebs.

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I don't watch TV news anymore either. I may tune in once or twice to see how Katie's doing, but I don't plan to watch her every night. I think Katie's okay.
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Johnny Carson retiring from the Tonight Show, I get and I got. Katie Couric, meh, whatever.

I'm not sure I could pick her out of a line up of perky blonds.

I just don't know what to think of the fact that Alex has watched approximately five hours more of the Today show than I have in the past decade.

As for Katie delivering the nightly news: think of how much better news sounds when delivered by a perky little blonde! We'll know it's bad only when we see the little furrow between her brows- provided the Botox Cops haven't gotten to her first.

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