Katie Couric will be capable of doing much less damage to the nation as a CBS newsreader. Nobody watches that crap anymore. I predict that she will absolutely crash at her new position - - a complete flop.
The huge audience of women who watched Couric in the morning as they were getting ready for work or sending the kids off to school is not around at 6:00. That's the time when the men come home from work and many women are still in charge of dinner whether they work or not. Plus, the kids are home and they are watching TV.
There are very few casual news watchers anymore - - serious news junkies amd people like us political junkies here at FR get our news from the internet or from a 24-hour cable news channel. The six-o'clock network news program is a dying institution, and it is dying fast. Couric is just in time to help usher it out for good, at least at CBS.
(Tin-foil hat alert: It has crossed my mind that NBC worked a backroom deal with CBS to "Lunden" the Perky One out of the 'Today' show. Getting CBS to offer her the anchor job was about the only way NBC could get rid of her without a public relations problem. Possibly, NBC is sharing her current salary load. Ratings will tell the tale, and if they are as terrible as I suspect they will be, then CBS will "Chung" her out of town and everybody can wash their hands of Katie Couric. /Tin-foil hat alert)
LOL! Katie Couric will turn out to be CBS's Edsel.