Although I work, and therefore only rarely saw Katie in action, I've always seen her as the perfect morning host. I'll miss seeing her version of the Today show when I'm on vacation.

On the other hand, I'll be able to see her on the CBS evening news...when I'm on vacation. Why do they have to play the national news when most working people are still stuck in traffic? At least, that's the case here in the Midwest, where everything happens an hour earlier than on the East and West coasts. 5:30 PM for national news is simply idiotic, as is 7:00 PM for prime time. Grr.

Katie who?

Isn't Hugh Downs the host of the Today show?

I haven't watched in a while...

Although I don't regularly watch the show, I was glued to the set this morning watching Katie's send-off.

I was alternatively touched, saddened, inspired and amazed by the sheer number and magnitude of Katie's accomplishments. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of most of 'em because I'm not a regular watcher. So I really appreciated the opportunity to catch a glimpse (even a 3-hour one), of Katie's momentous accomplishments. She's an awesome person and Today gave her an awesome sendoff.

Not everyone gets such a beautiful tribute while they're still alive.

I hope she really is a demanding bitch.

The last thing American journalism needs is another wimp who suckles from the teats of power.

A woman is in the news, news that has nothing to do with women, and RT pounces! Being bitchy and opinionated has nothing to do with women's issues. Salon, fire RT. Please fire her lazy ass for not understanding what journalism is about. You already have The Fix to cover the crap that she does, really.

Seriously, get one. You'll never care what's on when again.

While Katie may have once been a reporter and a journalist she gave up those titles long ago. Highest paid journailst ever? I think not, Couric is nothing more than an entertainer. Anyone who had to suffer through her "segments" during the last Winter Olympics could testify to that. Katie is a successful morning show entertainer, nothing more, nothing less.

because they went away and Katie hasn't.

I think she started out as an honest, hardworking journalist at a time when women journalists were probably treated less equally, so kudos to that.

Over the years, however, I have watched her movie star ego over take her credibility as a journalist. She's just another corporate TV whore, and that's not entirely her fault...(I mean whore in the universal sense, not because she's a woman.)

As her hair got blonder and her legs got skinnier and more orangey-tan; as her cutesie-pie smile got wider and more forced, I just got more annoyed with the whole Katie Package.

She makes a great spokesperson for colorectal cancer, (more kudos) but the gleam of celebrity burns too bright in her eyes now for me to take her seriously.

I hope she really is a demanding bitch.

The last thing American journalism needs is another wimp who suckles from the teats of power.

-- Patricia Schwarz

Yeah, Patty, we all know she should be sucking on marijuana instead, just on the off chance she may be suffering from PTSD.

Katie is to journalism as marijuana is to medicine. Put the pipe down and try reading something besides High Times and you'll discover what actual journalism is. Hint: It ain't Katie.

At least I have the courage to stand up for peer-reviewed published science in public under my own name.

Whereas you are happy to live in ignorance -- even about something like CANCER -- oh my God -- as long as you can waste time taking cheap shots under a fake name.

Decent journalism would be an utter and complete waste on someone like you.

Just believe what the TV tells you.

But I've seen so much amazing science about cannabinoids, right now I'm thinking -- go ahead, bully me all you want.

What I've been learning is so exciting, and what you're saying is so absolutely boring, there's just no comparing the two.

I've become bully proof about marijuana because the science is just really that cool.

You have my full permission to stay as ignorant as you want and enjoy that state of ignorance as much as you possibly can.

While you're luxuriating in know-nothing-land, I'll be waiting for the next surprise in cannabinoid science. There's one like almost every week!

She lost her husband to colon cancer.

A couple of months ago, colorectal cancer cells were added to the list of cancer cells that are known to be killed or shrunk by cannabinoids.

Now go ahead and bully me over that. Can't be done, sorry.

Three posts in but a half hour, each taking on a more immature "nyah nyah" tone while you profess to be smarter and more mature than your anonymous friend. It's obvious he or she is under your skin, otherwise you'd have just let the troll have enough rope to hang by.

That the troll jokes about your obsessive fascination with cannabis and you immediately take the bait and keep biting serves only to bolster the troll's point.

Lighten up, move on. You'll probably feel better. Posting in that tone just makes you look silly.

And you'll soon discover this woman is absolutely pathological when it comes to writing letters to every editor under the sun about her beloved drug habit. Talk about getting paranoid and projecting after a few hits. Poor thing, wasting a good career in science over her habit.

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...