Couric To CBS: “Analysis Of Her Performance Will Be Highly Gendered”

The AP: When people used to ask Connie Chung if a woman would ever get to anchor the network evening news all by herself, she’d say: ‘Not in my lifetime.’ Now Chung, very much alive, calls Katie Couric’s move to CBS ‘a watershed moment.’ And she’s not the only one who confesses to feeling a shiver of pride…”

Truman State University professor Steven Reschly is quoted at the end of the piece: “Analysis of her performance will be highly gendered – hairstyle, clothing, demeanor, aggressiveness – does she have (what it takes) to compete with Bill O’Reilly? It will be fun to watch this play out.”