Over the weekend on Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz asked former CBS Evening News EP Jim Murphy about Katie Couric‘s ascension to the anchor chair:
| KURTZ: Jim Murphy, you basically devised the looser format in which Bob Schieffer has these regular unscripted chats with the correspondents. Do you see Katie Couric continuing that, or is she better suited to a different approach? MURPHY: I hope she does. I think that that format sort of fits her like a glove. I mean, what we did was Bob brought a little bit of his great personality and his plainspokenness to the broadcast and to his conversations with correspondents, and it’s very much like what Katie does in the morning. And I think that — this format would be very good for her, and they’ll tweak it, you know, to match her work better than it exists, you know, at the moment. But I think it’s going to work out very well. |
Advertisement