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Sunday, July 15, 2007
7:48:00 PM EDT
My advice to Katie Couric on Huffingtonpost.com doesn't tell her to give us the investigative journalism so many of us admire. But after what happened to Dan Rather, no station wants to probe deeply into controversy. And we should cease to expect it -- not in a half hour show.
Much of the criticism of her and other news commentators is akin to frustration at oranges for not being apples. The days of Edward R. Murrow are gone. Millions of people get their news from sources on the internet long before the evening news shows are aired.
Real news comes from other sources -- multiple and competing ones. Given this reality, the issue for Katie Couric is not how to become someone who tackles tough subjects, takes stands, and brings corruption to its knees but how to provide us with the best of what can be expected from a half-hour show recapping the day.
Don't get me wrong, I could go for bringing corruption to its knees -- but it just isn't going to happen on CBS, NBC, ABC or any other nightly news venue.
So going after Couric for not being something the format doesn't allow is a waste of energy. Going after the format and insisting on more, now that's a better use of time.
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7:48:00 PM EDT
Katie Couric
My advice to Katie Couric on Huffingtonpost.com doesn't tell her to give us the investigative journalism so many of us admire. But after what happened to Dan Rather, no station wants to probe deeply into controversy. And we should cease to expect it -- not in a half hour show.
Much of the criticism of her and other news commentators is akin to frustration at oranges for not being apples. The days of Edward R. Murrow are gone. Millions of people get their news from sources on the internet long before the evening news shows are aired.
Real news comes from other sources -- multiple and competing ones. Given this reality, the issue for Katie Couric is not how to become someone who tackles tough subjects, takes stands, and brings corruption to its knees but how to provide us with the best of what can be expected from a half-hour show recapping the day.
Don't get me wrong, I could go for bringing corruption to its knees -- but it just isn't going to happen on CBS, NBC, ABC or any other nightly news venue.
So going after Couric for not being something the format doesn't allow is a waste of energy. Going after the format and insisting on more, now that's a better use of time.
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