Katie Couric seems to have trouble cobbling thoughts together without a script:
Katie Couric hopes to bring a "humanistic, more accessible" approach to her job when she takes over as anchor and managing editor at "CBS Evening News" in September, she said Thursday. (Humanistic, more accessible? As opposed to being an uncultured, deistic, frigid bitch in an ivory tower? I have to wonder why she thought humanistic and accessible went together.)
Addressing the annual convention of CBS affiliates, Couric predicted that the "pretentious era" of the evening-news anchor is going to be a thing of the past. (I sure hope so. Looks like the "pretentious era" of newspapers is ending, too. I do find it ironic that the anchor of the "Today Show" would read the eulogy over the way biz is done at the three networks, especially on the "Today Show." Alas, Walter Cronkite, remember when you convinced folks to sell out S. Vietnam, back when anchors were the gatekeepers? "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair."--Ozymandias, P. B. Shelley)
"The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for -- they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter," said Couric, whose last day as co-anchor of NBC's "Today" was Wednesday. "I'm a serious, caring, compassionate person. I hope that comes out. ... People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box." (Translation: They're not as stupid as we think they are. I guess we should stop trying to treat them all as impressionable mind-numbed robots. The little blue-haired ladies with 35 cats we can reprogram, but the others will be challenging.)
Bon voyage, old media.
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