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Article: Katie Couric brings buzz to network news: First solo female anchor may be ideal for helping program adapt to changing news world
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 6, 2006
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She referred to the Taliban in Afghanistan as "al-Qaida's best
friends," like the two groups schedule play dates. Oh, God, you
thought, here it comes, what's been brewing for months, and what the
pundits have been pundit-ing about. It's the Katie-ing of the evening
news; let the infantilizing begin.
Al-Qaida's best friends? Would Murrow have said that? Cronkite?
Rather? That last guy?
And yet, nobody can turn a frown upside like Katie Couric. Which
is precisely why she gets away with "al-Qaida's best friends," and
why Tuesday's debut showed she is such a great choice to drag a
moribund format not so much into the next century as toward the next
iteration of what is, at bottom, a commercial ...