Three weeks into my summer reading pile, I'm halfway through The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World - And How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen, two women who share an extensive background in public interest communications. (More about them - and this fascinating book - later, as I plan to write a review very shortly.)

I mention this because I've been ruminating on how women think and what our social priorities are. And this being an election year, of course political concerns dance on the edge of my thoughts.

So when Deborah White, About.com's Guide to US Liberal Politics, blogged about her Second Thoughts on Suitor Obama, I had to laugh at the same time I recognized how brilliantly her courtship analogy suited this situation:

When Barack Obama was courting me, I swooned over his velvety tones, his smoothly elegant style, and most of all, his seeming soul-deep promise of a better tomorrow...

But now that we're engaged, I'm having second thoughts. You see, my intended seems to be taking me for granted, even before we take our vows.

Maybe Obama needs to read The She Spot. Or at the very least, take a look at what Deborah has to say.

The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric has been named the recipient of the 2008 International Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. Given by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the annual award honors excellence in electronic journalism.

What does this mean for the news program, which has been troubled by plummeting ratings, and for Katie Couric, who has been rumored to be looking elsewhere? TV Week interviews CBS Evening News executive producer Rick Kaplan about this and more.

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