I heard about Katie Couric leaving Today to take over the anchor spot on the SeeBS Evening News, but she still seems to be there on that morning facsimile of a news program. In fact, every time I surf around the dial in the mornings, I seem to catch some big celebrity with a camera pointed at him or her, emoting as though Couric were their best friend leaving the planet to serve humanity on some deep-space outpost, and they'll never see her again.
This has been going on for more than a month.
A farewell party is nice, but it shouldn't last more than a couple of hours, or it becomes what it has been this past six weeks: boring, irritating, and cause for us to say, "Shut up and go, already!" Even Jesus only had a simple supper and a private little all-nighter with his friends, before he started his difficult journey toward better things.
I'm sorry, but Katie's not dying, she's not sailing solo around the Antarctic waters or taking some other potentially life-threatening adventure, she's not launching herself into the void (although with SeeBS News ratings and degree of trustworthiness where they've been, it may come close to any or all of the above). She is just changing times & channels. That's not news. It's not even a feature article worth spending more than a minute -- or, if I'm in the mood to be generous, a single day's programming -- on air. If people want to tell her that they'll miss her, because they're not going to bother to watch her perky little smirk in the evenings, why don't they send her a private message, and why doesn't she keep it private? Making a big deal out of her change of address is a clear indication that the NBC news people are less interested in presenting actual news, and more involved with marketing their own little media cults of personality.
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