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Katie?.

Yes, what does this mean for Katie, who only five or so months ago was buried by the Major Media Outlets like the Wall Street Journal and other members of the Let's Bury Katie Choir?

I've just crawled out from under my bed because I heard the sky was falling - Prez Bush said so after all - but looked up to see that it was only rain coming down, so I finally had a good look at the Palin-Couric interview, Part 2, that'll air tonight and has been posted on CBS already and has been widely derided ... err, dissected in places like Gawker.

Here's what it means: That Couric will be the anchor of "Evening News" for years to come, and that after two years of soaring arias from members of the Let's Bury Katie Choir, that the music will finally stop. She's turned a corner, the corner she needed to turn, whereby she is no longer a rival, and third place one at that, to Williams and Gibson, but a potential threat to them. Much has been said about Palin's performance, and because TV Zone studiously stays away from politics, you may draw your own conclusion. But we do have opinions about TV stars, and mine on Couric is that she was terrific - clean, sober, intelligent, solid, prepared and respectful. She allowed Palin to be hoisted by her own petard.

This is just what Couric needed right now - a big interview at an important time in history and in the body of a telecast, "The Evening News" that is consistently good. She's got her mojo, and mojo can lead to momentum ... and she's gotten it at exactly the right time.

You go girl.

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