An excerpt from the interview with Katie Couric in February’s Readers Digest, on newsstands today:
| What’s it like going from the No. 1 morning show to the No. 3 evening newscast? Is that like, Ouch? Or are you really unfazed by ratings? I am blissfully unaware, but I am not exactly living under a rock either. The bottom line is that seven and a half million people are watching us. No, it’s not the same audience that CBS Evening News had in 1968, but it is still huge. And I feel a tremendous responsibility to do the best job I can for those who are watching. I’m trying to strip the more formal traditional newscast of its pretension while maintaining a strong sense of decorum. |
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