Your comparison of Ms. Couric to A-Rod was easily the wildest analogy I have ever read in the media---and I've read many articles on Ms. Couric over the last eight months. To compare a news anchor to a baseball player---well, why don't you compare the British Prime Minister with the Captain of a Cunard ship?
Katie was not brought in to "rescue" CBS, much as you would like to position her as the CBS saint--she was brought in to be the anchor of the "CBS Evening News--nothing more, nothing less. If all of you media critics and pundits would just do your job and let her do hers, without critiquing it every damn day, from every possible angle: from her wardrobe, to her sign-off line, to her hair, her delivery, her make-up , her tone, and if she looks happy or if she is dating or not,perhaps there are more important issues in the world to focus on.It also seems there are some other people putting together the Evening News program that could be critiqued, rather than Katie, day in, day out, (there are, after all, a TON of credits rolling after every news program, no?) Why the obsession with Katie? I think there is a certain amount of enjoyment/glee the media gets from building up certain people into celebrities and then tearing them to shreds---I have witnessed it time and time again----and it is a very unflattering trait that the media delights in: almost their power play. It is unattractive, it is transparent, and at the end of the day, readers learn much more about the writer than they do the subject you are attempting to tear to shreds.
Your comparison of Ms. Couric to A-Rod was easily the wildest analogy I have ever read in the media---and I've read many articles on Ms. Couric over the last eight months. To compare a news anchor to a baseball player---well, why don't you compare the British Prime Minister with the Captain of a Cunard ship?
Katie was not brought in to "rescue" CBS, much as you would like to position her as the CBS saint--she was brought in to be the anchor of the "CBS Evening News--nothing more, nothing less. If all of you media critics and pundits would just do your job and let her do hers, without critiquing it every damn day, from every possible angle: from her wardrobe, to her sign-off line, to her hair, her delivery, her make-up , her tone, and if she looks happy or if she is dating or not,perhaps there are more important issues in the world to focus on.It also seems there are some other people putting together the Evening News program that could be critiqued, rather than Katie, day in, day out, (there are, after all, a TON of credits rolling after every news program, no?) Why the obsession with Katie? I think there is a certain amount of enjoyment/glee the media gets from building up certain people into celebrities and then tearing them to shreds---I have witnessed it time and time again----and it is a very unflattering trait that the media delights in: almost their power play. It is unattractive, it is transparent, and at the end of the day, readers learn much more about the writer than they do the subject you are attempting to tear to shreds.