For those who find it astonishing that a reporter managed to extricate emotions from the beleaguered Katie Couric this week, it's worth reminding everyone that celebrities never land on magazine covers by accident. Couric's every utterance reflected a careful calculation on her part. Yes, the writer did his job and...

The CBS executives who leaked the story of Dan Rather's imminent exit from the news division to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post today clearly despise the former anchorman. They blame him for the 2004 National Guard documents scandal that tarnished the reputation of CBS News. They hate him for...

My favorite new thing to watch on television is the TiVo gears. I often find myself comforted by the sight of the faint green wheels on the TiVo home page that turn endlessly and with no variation. I consider the TiVo gears to be the 21st century equivalent of the...

So Charlie Gibson gets to leave "Good Morning America" first. How did that happen? That's one of many unanswered questions in ABC's announcement that Gibson would take over as solo anchor of "World News Tonight" in June. The main one concerns Gibson's co-anchor on GMA, Diane Sawyer, who can't be...

How do you fall in love with a beast?

I'm trying to, but it isn't easy. This particular girl doesn't want to be touched between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. When we go for romantic evening strolls in my busy New York neighborhood, she...