I’m no fan of Katie Couric, but it seems to me she’s getting the shit end of the stick these days.  A recent poll shows that viewers’ negative opinion of her is rising and I find that interesting.  She was extremely popular on Today, but the switch to a nightly news program makes them dislike her?  Just doesn’t make sense.  I watched Couric’s broadcast a few times and while it was certainly nothing spectacular, it was also no better or worse than her counterparts on NBC and ABC.  What has turned American against Katie Couric?

The issue of releasing the Cho videos to the public still has me pulling in different directions, but I think Jeff Jarvis and Kevin Drum make excellent points about why the video should have been released.  I think their points are valid.  We don’t need a news media, whether it is old or new media, deciding what the general public should or should not be allowed to see.  Let us make that decision.  Granted, people will get hurt, the victims and their families especially, but do we really want news organizations taking that control from us?