Can Katie Couric "make the transition from the mostly frothy melange that is morning television to the buttoned-down world of network evening news?"

Matea Gold asked, and Katie replied for a must-read LAT piece.

"Blah, blah, blah," Couric said. "John Chancellor drove a go-cart on the 'Today' show. Get over yourselves, really. I think it's sort of a lemming-like reaction and not very informed, because I think if anybody watches the show, they'll know we do plenty of serious things... To suggest you can't have fun and you can't talk about fashion and enjoy it and then do a serious story on welfare reform is just limited in your thinking."

Read more of her "remarkable candor" here...