Couricmania
In the past 12 hours everything that can possibly be said has already been said about Katie Couric's debut. This is characteristic of the new media age, of course - the one which is rapidly replacing anachronisms like CBS News.
It's been 15 years since I watched, with any regularity, a nightly broadcast on the three old networks, so it was a chore to rearrange my schedule to catch a few minutes of the perky news marmoset. Do serious grown-ups still schedule their lives around a pre-set half an hour in the evening when they watch news? Our ancestors obviously had a B.F. Skinner complex of some kind. Even the act of tuning in was a reminder of how retrograde the experience has become. From the standpoint of anyone raised in the digital era CBS is like Rocketboom, I suppose - but if you can't make sure you're parked in the chair at just the right moment you might as well upgrade your hardware to a DVR arrangement like TiVo.
Katie did a fine job, as such. The news seemed more breezy and informal. The real test, of course, will be some national disaster, assassination, terror attack, or election snafu. That's when the real Katie will need to walk in front of the camera and deliver news.
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posted by Superfly @ 7:04 AM
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2 Comments:
B.F. Skinner complex? Or perhaps a time where families actually had time to sit down and not only eat dinner together, but watch the news? Of course, Dad was probably loaded up on martinis and Mom was vaguely disappointed with where her life had gone, but at least they had the NEWS, damn it!
"...perky news marmoset."
Nice.
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