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If it weren't for the journalistic chops of Edward R. Murrow, and later Walter Cronkite who created the "managing editor" position for himself, anchors would be no different than they are abroad, where they are simply "newsreaders" or "presenters."
By that foreign standard Katie Couric would be excellent, but here we expect some real reporting skill of our anchors, even if they are just reading a prompter for 22 minutes and asking questions piped into their earpiece from their producer. Unfortunately Couric lacks the journalistic gravitas (I hate the word but it fits here) of a Diane Sawyer or even Lara Logan.
