"Perky" Katie Couric, 49, is going to become a news anchor. She's leaving NBC to join CBS, where she supposedly will become the first woman to anchor a network weekday evening newscast alone.
I wonder just how this TV persona of hers -- so deeply ingrained in her psyche after fifteen years of effort -- this perky, flip, light-headed, see-me-smile-so-cute image is going to work when she starts delivering the news of more American soldiers killed and maimed by yet another IED, or of a hundred thousand killed in another massive tidal wave.
Will she keep those claimed six million viewers when she drops this smiley-face facade and starts trying to project "Gravitas", trying to act serious and weighty for the usually bad news? Or will she only report happy, smiley type news more in line with her carefully crafted perky, smiley, chitty-chatty TV image?
You'll have to let me know... I won't be watching.
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