Campbell Brown (Patrick McMullan)

At yesterday's luncheon for Makers, the series of online videos on ground-breaking women, we ran into onetime NBC News mainstay Campbell Brown, who departed the network for CNN in 2007. Given that Ms. Brown was a member of the Today family, we asked her about the departure of Ann Curry, which was at that point less than 24 hours away.

"Here's the thing!" she told us--she had been out of the country for two weeks, and needed us to present a primer. After being informed of Ms. Curry's fate at Today, Ms. Brown contemplated. "I've known Ann Curry for years. She was so kind to me when I left NBC that I'm really sorry that she's going through that--I don't think it's fair."

This morning, Ms. Curry was given a brief send-off, during which she cried while discussing how she was unable to "carry the ball to the finish line." A fifteen-year veteran of Today, Ms. Curry recently stated she hoped to make it to 20.