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...KATIE COURIC NBC pays up to re-up Today anchor for four years. Holds her own against sex symbol Matt Lauer...
...incident involved the brief but purposeful exposure of the private life of the Today show's Katie Couric. Couric returned to her position as host after a period of mourning following the death of her husband Jay Monahan, an attorney and legal analyst for NBC. Monahan, only 42, died of colon cancer. On the day of her return Couric wore his wedding ring on a chain around her neck. Welcomed back by her co-host, Matt Lauer, she proceeded to thank the thousands of viewers who had sent condolences and then extended her sympathies to those who were struggling with...
That's all there was to it. There was warmth but no tears on the part of Lauer, no tears from Couric, no further mention of her loss. She went to work interviewing former Secretary of State James Baker. What made the incident impressive as well as affecting was, in part, that it was so out of step with the modern way of handling personal difficulty. In an age that makes the most--and generally the worst--of any disappointment, much less grief, in which people weep lavishly at the drop of a stock market, and the tendency of television...
Even more impressive was the way Couric chose her words. Too tasteful to dwell on her sorrow and not content merely to acknowledge those who had expressed concern for her and her small children, she expressed concern for others who might be in the same hopeless boat that she and her husband had known. Nor did she offer any easy answers or palliatives, but straightforwardly gave her "sympathies," which in her case were literal; she did feel what those others felt. By doing so, Couric made something valuable of a private life exposed. She showed what Tripp, Flowers...
DIED. JAY MONAHAN, 42, NBC News legal analyst and husband of Today show host Katie Couric; of cancer; in New York City...