The only non internet person on Couric's list, in fact, is FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. The other people who control the media, according to the CBS Evening News anchor, are all Web heads:

• Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
  
• Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington.
  
• The founders of the women's blogging network BlogHer: Jory Des Jardins, Elisa Camahort Page and Lisa Stone. This is a big stretch but we're assuming Couric is trying to imagine the less sexist world she'd like to live in and lend some buzz to a feminist cause. Fair enough.
  
• Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder.
  
• Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone.
  
• Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Couric is obviously just trying to butter up people who might be able to help her ditch the old fuddy-duddies at CBS News and expand her promising sideline in lifecasting. Which is, frankly, brilliant. We know some other people who might be able to help you Katie, call us.

Oh, and the Jewish thing? Couric is no anti-Semite, but we couldn't help but notice that her list of people who supposedly control the media does contain a majority of people of Jewish descent: Brin, Page, Newmark, Zuckerberg, Genachowski and Camahort Page.

Of course, the pace of change in Silicon Valley has a way of leveling these old-world distinctions. Page's family was non-practicing; Zuckerberg has gone atheist and Camahort Page is "a total non-religious person."

[via Bay Newser via NBC Bay Area]

I Twitter and blog very selectively... I don't think anybody gives a rats ass whether I am about to eat a tuna sandwich. I don't even care.

Some of it is so inane and narcissistic and bizarre I don't quite get it. I don't know why anyone would want to read it, much less why I would want to write it.

So Twittering a tuna sandwich is terrible and pointless, but Twittering "lobster bisque, striped bass [and] fruit confetti w/pound cake" is OK, judging from one of Couric's recent tweets (see left). As is blogging from the American Idol audience.

When will Katie Couric apologize for being a terrible East Coast Media Elite?

Seriously though, KC: We all like to pretend we're the fascinating center of the universe sometimes, and until the rest of us work out way up to the point where, say, David Letterman and TMZ care about us like they do a certain TV news anchor, Twitter remains a choice venue for those little narcissistic moments.

Maybe you'll understand some day, when Twitter subsumes all human thought and expression.

[Variety]