Katie Couric is apparently throwing in the towel on this whole "hosting the evening news" gig...but I don't care. Well, and you probably don't either. And based on her ratings, neither do a whole lot of other people. But I really don't care because I don't get my news from the evening news. I'm rarely home in time to watch it anyway, and even if I am...I'd rather watch a rerun of Scrubs and then catch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert a few hours later in the night to fill me in on what's really going on.
If I watch TV "news" at all. Isn't that really what the interwebs are for? I spend my day in front of a computer, and why would I want to watch the news when I can selectively scroll through whateverwhatever.com and pick the headlines I'm interested in?
I'm afraid the days of Tom Brokaw (or, for an earlier generation, Walter Cronkite) may be over. Those dramatic "breaking news" moments are a little less dramatic when Twitter exploded twenty minutes earlier with all the "news" you need to know.
I'd rather just read The Onion.
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