Caitlin Flanagan on Katie Couric, Morning TV, and Why News is Doomed
In the January Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan explains the allure of the Today show,
When it is on, the television screen is no longer a barrier separating real life from TV land; the television screen is a window into another room of the house, the one where the grown-ups are.
in a piece about Katie Couric. She writes of the old Katie:
sporting a Dorothy Hamill wedge, the tonsorial equivalent of a vow of chastity
and the new:
It was as though she’d gone backward through the familiar process that had taken Diane Sawyer, her rival, from pageant queen to journalist.
She’s
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