In Newsweek, Connie Chung mangled her metaphors in trying to assess ABC’s choice of Diane Sawyer as its evening-news anchor: “The network-news flagship program has been the last vestige of the dark ages. The anchor has always been traditionally a male—a white male.” Wouldn’t that be the White Ages?

Chung also made the bold prediction that there would be no catfights, as if Katie and Diane would scrap like Joan Collins and Linda Evans on Dynasty:

To isolate the two is a chauvinistic approach to create a catfight between two women. That will not be the case. The fact is, it will be a three-way battle. There will be no fingernails. Brian [Williams] will not be putting on a skirt. There will be no mudslinging, only professionalism from all three of them.