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my reaction to the whole Couric-slim-down story is a big "So what?" Why are we surprised by the shallowness of any major television "news" organization these days? It would be news if they hired a real journalist to anchor the news. Katie Couric's not fit that bill for ages, if she ever did. And why are we surprised by Barbara Walters' comments? She's in the same boat as Katie.
Is it sad that we aren't surprised? Perhaps. But I've long since stopped having high expectations for TV news coverage, let alone the people the networks put in front of the teleprompter.
While news outlets tackle this non-story, folks in New Orleans are still homeless a year later. NPR or Marketplace Radio had a Robert Riech piece this morning about how the new New Orleans is minus a good percentage of its poor, who haven't had the money to a) rebuild or b) return. To me, that is truly disturbing, not whether CBS has played with the photographed image of a multimillionaire news reader.
