You can let America choose its next idols. But please do not let them choose the next job for Katie Couric. The CBS Evening News anchor, who is either being "pushed out" or "volunteering an exit" from her post, was the subject of career speculation outside the Today show, or at least she was when the Observer egged on the crowd. So what do fans of the former morning show star think she should be doing?

• “I think she’d be good at a talk show during the day,” said Bev Clarke, a petite blond lady from San Diego. “She seemed so tense on the nightly.”

• “Katie should go to Africa and do humanitarian work, like Bono,” said Jacob Burgess of Port Washington, N.Y.

•â€œShe should blog her face off,” said a young man who declined to provide his name.

• “Acting, maybe?” said Scott Labonte, 31, of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Definitely comedy, he suggested. No drama. “Like 30 Rock, or something like that.”

• “Katie’s hot,” said Craig Bellew, who was visiting from Clarkesville, Ga. “She should come right back here. I grew up watching her on Today. And it’s easier to say her name then—what’s the other girl’s name? Anyway. She’s hot.”

• Ms. Radzikinas said she was a big Katie fan and suggested that the anchor should get her own talk show. The aunt frowned. “She needs to stay home with her kids,” she volunteered. “Not nice!” said the niece. “She could take over for Rosie O’Donnell,” said the aunt, softening her stance. “Yeah, I’d like to see her with the girls on The View,” said the niece.

[Observer]