Katie Debuts: Morning Papers, Part 1

> Boston Herald: “Couric opened strong…”

> CBS Marketwatch: “She dropped the ball… The show was silly at times, full of fluff at others and, faithfully, All About Katie. All the time…”

> Washington Times: “The nightly news has been Katie-fied…”

> Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “There are few conclusions you can draw from this first outing…”

> Providence Journal: “Couric did a fairly graceful job of acknowledging her heavily hyped debut without dwelling on it…”

> NY Sun: “Wearing white after Labor Day isn’t a fashion crime anymore. But if Katie Couric really wanted us to focus on her reporting rather than her wardrobe, she shouldn’t have flouted one of the oldest rules in the book…”

> St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Proponents of hard news most likely were dismayed by an abundance of feature segments…”

> Arizona Republic: “The first broadcast offered a preview of where CBS is headed,” including a “more conversational, more engaging” approach, “more one-on-one interviews,” and “longer pieces…”

> St. Petersburg Times: Connie Chung says “she looked like she had been doing the CBS Evening News for 25 years…”