Katie Couric's profile of Condi Rice on Sixty Minutes is a kind of case study in softball fluff job. How did this ever get on the air? Rice is graceful as always, but what was Sixty Minutes thinking? There is no tension, no anything, no narrative arc, just the same point made over and over again. I've never seen another serving official get such softball treatment from a serious news show. Rice was almost beaming with the Nerf-ball questions. How much of a true believer are you? Wonderful. So, you're really a true believer, aren't you? Tell me again how your life story has made you a true believer. ... Iraq is hard, but your life story is about overcoming hardship, isn't it? .... Would you like to get married? Agh!

Posted by Laura at September 24, 2006 08:41 PM