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Book promotion was on the agenda at both CBS and NBC. Amy Robach dug out Beijing Olympics archive videotape from the NBC vault to illustrate her profile of Dara Torres, the 41-year-old swimmer. Torres was ostensibly making news by announcing that her decision to retire from Olympic competition--"No this is it. This is definitely it"--was not irreversible, looking forward to London 2012. Her authentic motive for granting the interview was presumably to boost sales of her memoir Age is Just a Number.
CBS anchor Katie Couric, who had a busy day counting the Eric Holder interview, also dug up archive videotape from NBC News as she promoted the book No Right to Remain Silent by Lucinda Roy. Professor Roy teaches English at Virginia Tech University--or she does not. Couric called her a "former professor" at the start of her report and said she "may have put her career there in jeopardy" at its conclusion. Anyway, in her book Roy recounts the contacts she made to four different campus departments registering concern about Seung-Hui Cho, the suicidal student who killed 32 others in a shooting rampage when he took his own life two years ago. After Roy's intervention, Cho received help from an off-campus mental healthcare facility and voluntarily contacted an on-campus clinic. "Records of any treatment he may have had there are missing," Couric reported. Cho went ahead with his killings anyway. The NBC footage Couric aired was a clip from the video suicide note Cho mailed to that network on the morning of the massacre.
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