• Slate, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 3:30 PM

In the wake of confirmation that Katie Couric is indeed moving on from her spot on the "CBS Evening News" comes Jack Shafer's take on the death of the evening newscast as a whole.

You've probably heard this idea before, but Shafer puts a snappy yet verging-on-nasty spin on the issue. Here's a sample of his tone: "...when ABC News gave Diane Sawyer the keys to its World News telecast in 2009, they were overtly endorsing the CBS News strategy of hiring a middle-aged bottle blond from morning TV to chaperone all the unschooled geezers turning on their sets at night."

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