Anyone who ever had the misfortune of seeing Katie trying to report on the elections---sitting there with Tom Brokaw trying his best to coach her---just knows if she DOES depart from teleprompter world, she'll crash and burn even faster. She had zero ability to contemporaneously comment upon and analyze anything political.
Aha! So she won't be a *mechanical* Ted Baxter, but a living, breathing, flesh-and-bone, actual and in fact Ted Baxter! Now I understand this article. :D