Should we report on Katie Couric’s new haircut?

That was the question swirling around some newsrooms, including Media Bistro, after Couric appeared Monday on CBS’s "Evening News" sporting a short, pixie Katie Holmes—esque haircut.

The acclaimed journalists at Bistro decided the hairdo story was a definite don’t. They concluded that covering a female anchor’s new ‘do would be sexist, writing, "’Would we report this if Brian or Charlie got a haircut?’ The answer was ‘no’ and ‘no.’" Yet today they pass on word that they’ve received emails from readers wondering why they didn’t mention it, so today, they wrote a post about that and are asking the public if they think that they should have covered it.

The New York Daily News, however, did find a veteran journalist getting a haircut was newsworthy and wrote about how much they disliked Couric’s new look: "The coif, a boyish pixie cut that channeled some of Hillary Clinton’s bad ‘do days, was a striking departure from the signature bob viewers associate with the 51-year-old anchor." They went on to make an interesting analogy here - Couric has said in the past that she has found sexist parallels in her difficult experiences as a high-profile anchor chair at CBS to Hillary Clinton’s quest for the White House.

Jumping on the media bandwagon, here are our thoughts about Couric’s new ‘do: First, Couric looks fabulous — before and after the trim. Second, this would have been more newsworthy if Couric’s beautician was Sarah Palin, who was hammered by Couric in an interview that was believed to have hurt the Republican ticket.

Here’s a shot of Couric’s old bob, for those of you who don’t remember:

Tell us: Was it sexist of the press to report on this?