aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, August 28, 2006

Katie goes LIVE on September 5

New York says she’s got what it takes to rejuvenate the formula. Romenesko:

Couric lacks old-fashioned TV-news “gravitas,” which is good

New York

Katie Couric is the first network anchor to have a quick, smart, mischievous sense of humor as a major part of her public persona, says Kurt Andersen. “She wonÂ’t have many opportunities to crack wise on the ‘Evening News,’ of course,” he writes. “But if you strip away the jokes from Jon Stewart‘s ‘Daily Show’ performances, what remains is an intelligent, charming, clued-in, puckish, apparently unpretentious, occasionally self-deprecating fortysomething whose responses to news stories seem recognizably, appealingly human.”