Today Show viewers who hadn't heard that Katie Couric's return to her alma mater would be about charity -- and not her career -- still got an interesting bit of viewing this morning as nightly news anchors Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson debated former Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new tell-all and the media's role in the lead-up to the war in Iraq. Who do you suppose was the most apologetic about dropping that ball?
That would be Couric.
“[McClellan] said we didn’t do our job and we didn’t ask the right questions,” said [Matt] Lauer, who co-hosted TODAY with Couric during the buildup to the invasion and the first three years of the war.
“I’ll start by saying I think he’s fairly accurate,” said Couric, now anchor of the CBS Evening News. “Matt, I know when we were covering it — and granted, [in] the spirit of 9/11, people were unified and upset and angry and frustrated — I do think we were remiss in not asking some of the right questions.”
Is it predictable that the new kid on the block -- and the one with the least job security currently -- would be the one most ready to admit fault here? We're not sure. What do you guys think?