Add Saturday Early Show anchor Russ Mitchell to the list of CBSers who support Katie Couric‘s possible move to CBS News.

“The folks in charge now are very aggressive,” Mitchell tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I don’t blame them for going after Katie one bit. She’s a big star and a very talented journalist — and a nice person as well.”

> Attention Rome Hartman: This is the most important paragraph in Gail Pennington‘s column: “Watching all three network newscasts on the same night, it’s difficult to note many differences among them. Only superficialities set them apart on a busy news day.”