Katie Couric offers a silver bullet to critics of her editorializing the news (at CBS? Perish the thought!):

One of Ms. Couric’s innovations—or corruptions—of the form is that she occasionally offers up her own reaction to the stories that appear on her broadcast. A vestige of her chattier Today Show days, these frequent interjections are the subject of much deep thought and close analysis in the halls of CBS—and the subject of sniggering elsewhere in television news.

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“I think that, probably it may be off-putting at times to some people who are used to a very, very buttoned-up newscast that doesn’t have much leeway for an occasional glimpse of personality, but you know, I try. I’ve always had the ‘less is more’ philosophy, believe it or not, but there are times when I think it’s personally fine. If people feel discomfort, maybe they should consider a suppository.”

Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff recently described the newspaper as "a medium for old people (newspapers are for people who remember newspapers)". Its putative would-be video successor is already in similar territory, even if it doesn't know it yet.

Update: Neo-Neocon has some thoughts on the print media's own repeated editorializing within otherwise straightforward news stories. Of course, as Michael Kinsley noted last year, for the legacy media, this is the "Twilight of Objectivity". Though I'd argue that they're already in the era of post-objectivity.