Rumors that Ann Curry is on the way out as co-anchor of the Today show bring this response from me:
“What took you so long?”
Perhaps my response should be “Why was she put in that position to begin with?”
Curry was a decent, at best, news reader every half-hour for the show before her promotion, but she never had the gravitas or presence to be co-host.
That’s not as big a knock as it sounds like, as Matt Lauer, for all his experience has never been larger than life … except for perhaps his ego.
When NBC buys out Curry’s contract, as it appears to set to do, and replace her with a younger woman from inside or outside its fold, it comes out a loser.
Not only the network shell out $10 million to buy her silence, it will come off as nasty for its treatment of a loyal employee, overmatched for the position, or not.
Ann Curry … Not the Best Choice … (get it, NBC?), but one it should have decided on initially.




Matt Aug has been a reporter, writer and editor for over two decades and has been published by USA Today, Newsday and NFL.com. Matt watched black and white television growing up and was around before HBO began!