Meredith Debuts: Instant Reactions

> Gawker: “As if that ‘It’s a new day’ jingle weren’t already festering in your hippocampus, NBC is hell-bent on making sure everyone knows MEREDITH IS HERE and, no matter what, SHE IS TOTALLY AWESOME!”

> TVgasm: “In just the first few minutes of the show, Ms. Vieira: (1) swung wildly back and forth about ten times between grave, news-anchor seriousness and hysterical, Publishers-Clearing-House-winner laughter; (2) implied that President Bush is gay; (3) compared her thighs to the Goodyear Blimp; and (4) announced proudly that she was ‘putting the ‘broad’ in ‘broadcasting’…'”

> NewsBusters: “While Katie Couric was tagged as ‘perky,’ I’d say she was in many ways a cautious and button-downed professional. Vieira gave a couple indications that she might have a looser approach…”

> From an e-mailer: “NBC has certainly found the right co-anchor for Matt Lauer. For someone who rarely watched morning news shows, I definately will be tuning in more to see the Today Show…”