Respect needs to be earned, it's never a given. As far as Katie being a woman, she is, but that is not a very exclusive club. The standards do not and should not change dependent on gender. Ms. Couric is sadly out of her depth in her position as anchor. She is, and always has been little more than a personality and entertainment reporter. Now of course I did "Person to Person", perhaps the earliest televised celebrity interview show, but that did not qualify me as a hard news reporter or anchor. It's sad that CBS News has sunken to such depths, but as I survey the landscape, the "Fourth Estate" has failed in it's charge to the American people wherever one looks.
Respect needs to be earned, it's never a given. As far as Katie being a woman, she is, but that is not a very exclusive club. The standards do not and should not change dependent on gender. Ms. Couric is sadly out of her depth in her position as anchor. She is, and always has been little more than a personality and entertainment reporter. Now of course I did "Person to Person", perhaps the earliest televised celebrity interview show, but that did not qualify me as a hard news reporter or anchor. It's sad that CBS News has sunken to such depths, but as I survey the landscape, the "Fourth Estate" has failed in it's charge to the American people wherever one looks.
Time for me to roll over.