Geography lesson

[nsj]

Would someone please tell Katie Couric that she's in Raleigh and not Raleigh-Durham?

Raleigh and Durham may share an airport, but they're not at all the same city, and lumping them in together like that does a disservice to both of them.

Comments

[a1an]

so are you in Bryan/College Station - lol

[nsj]

Yeah, but at least Bryan and College Station but into each other. It's much like my (and many others') annoyance with "Dallas/Ft. Worth". Raleigh and Durham are seperated by distance (they don't touch) and are definitely different culturally, much like Dallas and Ft. Worth are.

[a1an]

Ive never been to Raleigh and Durham. But I dont mind saying D/FW or Dallas/Fort Worth because I grew up in Hurst and even though they are decidely two diferent cities, still they are one huge metroplex and if you can find a blade of grass in between the two, you're doing lucky. Nowadays they have a communter train between FW and Dallas that wasnt there when I lived there.

[gorski]

trust me: if you come to Raleigh or Durham and refer to being in "Raleigh-Durham", people will look at you mighty funny. Or they might decide to give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you're talking about the airport.

peace,

--me

[ariellejuliana]

Why is Katie Couric in "Raleigh/Durham" in the first place? Did something interesting actually happen here? ")

[nsj]

She was anchoring from Raleigh the day the "Duke Lacrosse" case was dropped.

It amused me that their tape editors made a point to edit in clips of her sitting and asking a question at the actual press conference. She's taken a lot of slack for not having any reporting credentials -- I guess this was an effort to bolster her "street cred" so to speak.