You know, the interview with Sarah Palin is doing wonders for Katie Couric's career as a serious newscaster, which just several weeks ago was assumed to be nearly over. We're seeing the great utility of having a woman across the table from Palin: Had a man conducted the toughest, most embarrassing interview of this election cycle with the Republican Party's first female V.P. nominee, he surely would have been accused of sexism. But Couric, the first woman to anchor an evening news broadcast? I don't think so. She just asked the questions that needed to be asked.
--Dana Goldstein
