Comparing Couric & Rodriguez

Eat the Press says “Katie Couric receives the unkindest comparison of all” in The New York Observer this week.

The story compares Couric’s trevails to Alex Rodriguez. Here’s my favorite paragraph:

“So each new strategy that CBS or the Yankees might try, hoping to win more viewers or more games, gets evaluated as an act of publicity long before the results come in. Ms. Couric and the CBS Evening News are going through the kind of scrutiny usually presented on WFAN: Are they sunk? Are they crazy? What were they thinking in the first place? And how long can they keep making excuses for that overpriced bum?“

Here’s the rest…

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