It’s amazing that Katie Couric can maintain her eternal perkiness in such a dark, depressing world. Amazing what $15 mil a year will do for a gal.
She just started a series called “Children of the Recession” on her nightly CBS Newscast. She kicked it all off with an op-ed piece in USA Today in which she postulates that today’s kids are the “Recession Generation.” Apparently unable to settle on one generational nomenclature, she later called them “innocent victims could become the Lost Generation.”
On the CBS Evening News she harkened up images of the Great Depression and said the current recession “may be” to kids “what the depression was to an earlier generation.”
“Volunteer families stepping in during tough times is reminiscent of the Great Depression,” the perky one intoned gravely, “when parents in dire straits sent their children to live with relatives or other people in the community.”
Tom Brokaw noted that the kids who lived through the Great Depression became “The Greatest Generation,” but Couric sees kids who live through this recession as “The Lost Generation.”
Why the difference? Maybe it’s because that earlier generation didn’t have to watch depressing, grossly-distorted historical analogies on TV every night.
Source: CBS News, NewBusters.org
