No, this is not an important story, though the coverage allotted by a local paper is fair enough, given the subject’s visibility. But one wonders about the wisdom of CBS’s strategy in setting up a series of eight artificial big-city occasions for Couric to cast her “Eye on America,” as if her years on NBC’s “Today” had left her clueless in this regard, and then to restrict access in a fashion which (as noted by one observer on the ground) recalls this Administration’s phony “town meetings,” where never is heard a discouraging word. With the press barred (no doubt to stop competitors from stealing fresh story ideas), these two reporters are not inclined to take the event at the promoters’ face value: the byplay over an ... More »

This is a puff piece that does it's best to talk about a puff media event. Katie Couric in Minneapolis-St. Paul is NOT newssss, in the view of this reviewer. Sourced? Well, yeah, okay. Sorry to be flippant about this one.