For those of you who picked up a copy of this week’s New York magazine, thumbed through Katie Couric’s laundry list of fears, anxieties, and complaints, got past the part where she admits to getting slap-happy with a subordinate, and paused over the part Couric actually cops to having second thoughts. But, you wonder, has she actually contemplated relinquishing her anchor seat for good, turning her back on broadcast journalism, and running for the hills, so as not to end up like Deborah Norville?

Fortunately, CBS news prez Sean McManus is (sort of) quick to nip that rumor in the bud.

“She has a five-year contract with CBS to anchor the evening news,” McManus told The Associated Press. “All of us, including Katie, expect her to be anchoring the evening news in her fifth year.”

By which, presumably, he means, “What, you thought we were gonna throw $60 million down the toilet because she gave some touchy-feely interview about how much she misses her hairdresser?”

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