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As a long-term cancer survivor (albeit not colon cancer), I do applaude Katie Couric for using her time/space on "Today" to encourage people to get tested.
But I am also grateful to see her go. We tend to watch the first few minutes of "Today" to get the local weather, and then click over to CNN and "breakfast w/ the O'Briens" as quickly as possible. Soledad O'Brien, for one, shows you can be a compassionate, intelligent journalist (note the term)without making every day a "celebration of moi", as Katie said her last day. Please...practically every day on "Today" was a celebration of Katie. We marveled at how the coverage scale had tipped to Katie and other tabloid fodder vs. real news.
Good work on colon cancer awareness, Katie, but I won't be watching CBS news any time soon...
