Alphabet Soup for Breakfast

Several weeks ago, CBS This Morning made its debut with anchors Gayle King, Charlie Rose and Erica Hill. The network hopes its revamped, third-rated morning-show -- and fresh new format -- will make tougher competition for NBC's top-ranked Today show and ABC's Good Morning America.

It is nice to have choices and it is equally nice that these choices allow us to employ hundreds of workers and also equally nice that those workers can have the opportunity to provide for their families.  But, how much different is one show over the other and how much time do we actually spend in the morning watching these shows as we are getting ready for work?

Here's what TV and media critics have to say about the debut:

"For years, CBS News officials have pitched each successive version of the network’s morning show as new and improved, and most were not. With the new version of 'CBS This Morning' they actually stayed true to their word," observed The New York Daily News' Richard Huff.

"Perfect? No. But it looked dramatically better and was far meatier than the last version, which is a huge deal," Huff said, noting an improvement in design (darker colors versus the light blues, and exposed brick) and co-host seating arrangement (a round glass table replaces a standard panel).

Even though critics will be critics (as the boys say), the co-hosts of the show stated, "Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many mornings," Rose remarked, while King said: "Today feels like the first day of school. ... I hope we get good grades."

Interestingly, this past week, CBS This Morning had a 12 minute (or so) segment on the CEO of GoPro, which manufactures a small video camera that can be mounted virtually anywhere.  As a result, videos from this camera have been posted on You Tube and gone viral, as they say.  And, while “going viral,” I guess is important, what immediately struck my attention was what this young entrepreneur had to go through before becoming successful. 

You see, I teach an Entrepreneurship Class, and what this young CEO has managed to accomplish is what I have been talking about since the first day of class.

So, regardless of the alphabet soup choices that we have in the morning, I connected with CBS because this segment connected with me.