Katie Couric

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

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.

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.)