aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Katie & gravitas
What is gravitas? And why does it kick in at nightfall?
Gravitas lurks at the heart of the concentric speculation about Katie Couric’s television future: Should she leave Today for the CBS Evening News? Should the Evening News want her to?
It’s one thing to be the most successful morning news anchor. Being an evening news anchor is something else-something more … grave? More Latinate?
Ms. Couric lacks it, by various accounts, because of her legs or her boyfriends or her perky giggle. An evening news anchor is a different kind of person than that.
“It is essentially a chauvinistic word,” Connie Chung said.
It sure looks that way to me!
The story references this piece from Geneva Overholser on All Things Considered. I missed it then, don’t you miss it now.
I hope Overholser is right; I want her at CBS. I’ve compared Katie, favorably, to Edward R. Murrow.
Since Koppel left there’s a big news hole; I’ve virtually abandoned TV news. Katie - with my hoped-for new format - can bring me back.
Via Romenesko.
