As a "journalism guy" (I've got the degrees and the lesson plans to prove it), I find the Katie Couric build-up depressing. My local CBS affiliate has been pimping Katie's arrival for months, making it out to be a bright new era in journalism. Whatever. It's a bright new era in entertainment-media synergy. Journalism has nothing to do with it.

Agreed on Couric. I just don't see the big deal. With so many news and information sources, the role of an "anchor" has lost 80% of its importance. The iconic idealism of a "Trusted face and voice of news" is lost in the vide availability of news channels with a wide variety of personas. I get 90% of my news from the internet and radio anyway, as do so many of the working and tech-savvy. Also, on a side note, Couric is like Rachel Ray. Pretty soon I want to take her 30-minute meal and stuff it down her throat just to get her to stop talking.