This morning, Katie Couric bid a tearful farewell to “The Today Show,” and, dammit, I even got a little misty…particularly when I realized that, now that she’ll be behind the anchor desk at “The CBS Evening News,” I won’t be able to see her legs, which always gave me a reason to get up in the morning…well, um, I mean, besides my wife and kid.
Ahem.
There were some very funny moments during the various clip segments that covered Couric’s entire tenure at the show, but somber moments appeared as well. In fact, when we were watching the various key news stories that she’d been a part of over the years, my wife observed sadly that “when (our daughter) gets to school, there’ll be so many things in her history book that we never would’ve imagined when we were her age.” Given that she made this comment as the screen showed clips from 9/11, Hurrricane Katrina, and the Columbine massacre, I dare say she didn’t mean it as a good thing.
