Word: couric
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...host of the Today show, Matt Lauer comfortably occupied the seat next to the most popular anchor in morning news. But with Katie Couric gone to CBS--and Meredith Vieira still settling in as co-host--senior anchor Lauer is now more responsible for keeping Today on top. Lauer, 49, talked with TIME's Jeanne McDowell about his 10 years on Today, his chemistry with Vieira and his memorable face-off with Tom Cruise...
What was the impact of Katie Couric's leaving...
When Katie Couric took over the CBS Evening News, some viewers wondered whether a Today show anchor could claim Walter Cronkite's mantle. Turns out we were wondering about the wrong Today anchor. When Matt Lauer announced that NBC would start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," media observers hailed it as a "Cronkite moment," referring to the CBS anchor's 1968 declaration that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, upon which L.B.J. realized he had lost Middle America...
...controversial photo-shopped image of ElizabethVargas nursing her child at the anchor desk? Viewers didn't even realize your mother was pregnant with you when she was on television. Does that mean things have changed for women in television? What would your mother think of Vargas... or Katie Couric for that matter...
...public woman about to make Vargas' choice, the prospect of a magazine turning her choice into the subject ofprovocative editorial art won't make her decision easier. It'll be great when women can make the choice Vargas did and the world yawns. Mom would love Couric and Vargas because she would know how tough it is to do what they do as journalists and why it's even harder to do their jobs as women. She probably would have also been their harshest critics too since she believed the reason the prize is worth having is that...