CBS News anchor Katie Couric was in Tel Aviv – undivided but not the capital of Israel – as part of her quest to follow Barack Obama around like one of the puppies in the pack.

Israel’s Haaretz paper wrote of her as if she were somehow regal, but Katie was there only to continue making excuses:

“Unfortunately I have found out that many viewers are afraid of change. The glory days of TV news are over, and the media landscape has been dramatically changed. News is available now for everyone, everywhere, all the time, and everybody fights for the last pieces of the shrinking pie. The corporate pressure and the ratings terror are intensifying all the time, and the situation is not simple. I find myself in the last bastion of male dominance, and realizing what Hillary Clinton might have realized not long ago: that sexism in the American society is more common than racism, and certainly more acceptable or forgivable. In any case, I think my post and Hillary’s race are important steps in the right direction.”

She’s write that it’s over for network newscasts, and she’d be correct if she claimed that her CBS News bosses set her up for a fall with their doltish decision-making, but this has little to do with sexism. You are lousy at the standard newsreading format, and the format which you can handle, the cutesy stuff for which you were hired, the American people do not want.

Take the money and run. But please shut up.