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This week's issue of The New York Observer has a pretty lengthy article about Katie Couric, discussing not only the multiple parties celebrating her fiftieth birthday, but talking about the tough sledding her first few months at the helm of the CBS Evening News has been. Rebecca Dana does a good job of showing all the issues that have surrounded her tenure at the anchor desk, speaking to CBS News producers, executives, and people on her old NBC staff who made the move with her.Turns out that, not only are people at CBS uncomfortable with Katie's more conversational anchor style and her favoritism towards lengthy interviews and lighter fare, the viewers aren't taking to it either. "The most stunning thing about this experience has been to discover how resistant people are to change," executive Paul Friedman told Dana.
Couric doesn't seem to be worried; throughout the article, she demonstrates how truly confident she is in herself and her abilities to get the job done, despite the high and sometimes unfair expectations heaped on her. ""I think that, probably it may be off-putting at times to some people who are used to a very, very buttoned-up newscast that doesn't have much leeway for an occasional glimpse of personality, but you know, I try," she tells Dana. "If people feel discomfort, maybe they should consider a suppository."
Boy, oh boy. Does she kiss her kids with that mouth? Anyway, I'm not sure why people aren't giving her more time to develop and see how she does when big stories, like Gerald Ford's death, occur. It just seems too early to dismiss her or say she should move to mornings at this point. She's still in third place but doing slightly better than Bob Schieffer did at this point, according to the article. So, might as well leave her there and let her grow, right?
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