Digby: Tabloid Auto De Fe

Many people are wondering what in the hell was up with Katie Couric when she hammered John and Elizabeth Edwards last night on 60 Minutes. (Taylor Marsh wrote the definitive post on her egregious conduct, here.)

K-Drum thinks she was just trying to prove her "serious journalist" bonafides, which it seems to me should have been a pre-requisite for her current job, but there you go.