katy Tur and Ari Melber-- most awkward handoffs

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Maybe Katy Tur is getting paid more than Ari.

Or the other way around. I saw something similar when Barbara Walters became the first woman anchor. (Yes, I'm that old.) Walters was being paid $1 million/year for five years, a considerable sum for a news anchor in 1976. Her co-anchor, Harry Reasoner was paid half that.

The tension was palpable. "You know, Harry," she quipped in one especially embarrassing exchange, "Kissinger didn’t do too badly as a sex symbol in Washington." Her counterpart just glared: "Well, you would know more about that than I would."

The "partnership" lasted two years before it was broken up in favor of a multi-anchor format, and it was 15 years before another woman -- Connie Chung -- sat in the anchor chair.