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September 26, 2008

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This kind of anchor DIY vibe didn't start with Couric, and I find it very annoying. For a few years now, Anderson Cooper has had the habit of carrying a DV camera with him during his location trips and sometimes during interviews. It's mostly just distracting (especially since it's obvious that Anderson is travelling with at least one professional crew in tow and a coterie of producers and assistants).

Similarly, during the Los Angeles-area earthquake this year, Fox News Channel spent an inordinate amount of time showing streaming video of one of their crews driving to the scene when there was already an abundance of useful live video from affiliate helicopters. It's all just a technology expo, and it proves nothing.

I think the fact that Katie Couric is shooting her own interviews is a superb way to show the public that she is capable of doing just about anything herself.

Honestly, who cares if the ratio aspect was incorrect. I mean, c'mon, are technical things like that so important that they trump the quality of the work?

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