Katie’s Tour: Hartman Says Viewers Yearn For “Serious Journalism”

By Brian 

Katie Couric spent Tuesday in Texas, and the Dallas Morning News has a recap. She’s in Minneapolis today, raising money (for colon cancer) and raising awareness (of her new CBS gig).

Couric won’t tell reporters about what the viewers say at each “town meeting” along the way. But EP Rome Hartman tells the LA Times that “I was really struck by how people kept saying that they want depth and they want serious journalism.” He said several attendees cited the recent tensions with North Korea as an example of a subject for which they wanted more background…

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