As the end credits rolled, Couric, wearing a white jacket over a black shirt and skirt, was leaning against the edge of her desk, showing her famous legs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Someone who’s older than I am, please tell me, when Walter Cronkite or Peter Jennings or whoever<\/i> took over the nightly news, did the news stories the next day talk about his handsomly tailored suit, the color of its pinstripes, and the newscaster’s famous … Adam’s apple … eyes … wrists … anything?<\/p>\n
I actually saw a few minutes of Couric’s maiden broadcast, and I have to say, she has a very warm and empathetic demeanor that I quite enjoyed for the few minutes I experienced it. As for what stories she decides \u2014 or helps decide \u2014 to cover, well, who gives a fuck? I don’t watch evening news; I work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The AP reports that Katie Couric’s takeover of the CBS evening news went off without a hitch, can you imagine? A woman who has been living in insipid morning-news land actually pulled it off! Magnificent! But please don’t ever forget that as a woman, she is automatically subject to this kind of prose: As the end credits rolled, Couric, wearing a white jacket over a black shirt and skirt, was leaning against the edge of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}