Katie Couric from earlier today:

No matter where you are ideologically, it’s a sad day for american politics. I am very proud of the special we’ve done. It’s tonite at 8.

I found this a little pimpish, so I RT’d to my feed:

Death = ratings RT @katiecouric: […] it’s a sad day for american politics. I am very proud of the special we’ve done. It’s tonite at 8.

And Couric didn’t seem to like this and DM’d me back:

@katiecouric actually death equals honoring a life

Well, if that’s the only reason to do a special episode, I look forward to CBS’s commercial-free coverage of Ted Kennedy tonight at 8 p.m., as well as the inevitable memorial service at a date t.b.d.

And for the record, although I am not a fan of her, or any other network anchor, I am not a knee-jerk Couric basher either.