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

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Katie’s long goodbye

Regular readers know I’m a Katie fan; unfortunately I was en route home from Prague so I missed it:

Throughout her record 15-year tenure, Ms. Couric was easy to love and at times fun to hate, but she was always the most vibrant personality on network television. Her popularity helped keep NBC’s “Today” the top-rated morning program for more than a decade, and it is still the most profitable show on television. NBC, a network that has no shame when it comes to milking finales and farewells, pulled out all the stops yesterday. The three-hour Katiefest, which even she described as a “celebration of moi, ad nauseam,” was by turns maudlin, mocking, touching and over the top.

I hold out hope that she’ll do something great at CBS.