Katie Couric

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Anonymous wrote:I used to work at NBC in the early 2000s. Katie was one of the good ones. There were plenty of ice queens. I'll let you guess which ones those are. Including some who began in DC. Ahem.
I'm amazed that people are reaming her for being honest. This is what goes on at network news. People are competitive. If she were a man, she wouldn't be getting this backlash for competing with colleagues. But because she's a woman, she's being called a b*** and a narcissist. I applaud her for actually being open and unvarnished about how people jockey for power in this industry, and making herself vulnerable.

I asked myself this, if she were a man would I feel differently if he dished about a former colleague's bad breath, lack of humor, rigidity, the time they came on to him, all the personal former colleague content she seems to have written. My answer was I think I would still find it appalling...I would think he was an arrogant di#k. If it was just her writing about the industry and processes, etc. Her experiences fine...she got into personality attacks, who people were in her opinion, or people's vulnerable moments, like she's writing for tmz or or something. These were her colleagues. That was my main issue. Yea it is obviously an ugly industry, no doubt. So I guess if that was the goal, to share that, she certainly achieved it.

Have you read the whole book or excerpts on gossip sites, though? I am reserving full judgment until I read the whole thing.

I suspect that editors/publishers pressure them to include such details, so it gets media pick up, and they sell more books.

Not saying it is right, but perhaps the reality of celebrity publishing.

Yup. I remember listening to a podcast about Jose Canseco's book. They strongly encouraged him to name names re: the baseball steroid scandal, and he was happy to oblige!

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Anonymous wrote:But actually no one cares about Katie Couric except old grandmas, which is the reason I'm the only one updating this thread. I'm not a grandma, I'm a narcissist hater.

Funny how it's age-ism runs rampant in the DCUM comments.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we learn that she protected RBG.

I think it's insulting that she thought RBG needed protecting.

Really?

Had RBG’s comments aired, she would have likely been labeled a paternalistic racist.

Imagine if any white person said those exact words today. They would surely be canceled.

If any rational person looked at RBG and her career I don't know how anyone would of thought of her as a racist. Couric also has no right to edit someone like that, it's disingenuous as a journalist.

How many black clerks did she hire during her tenure as a COA or SCOTUS judge? It wouldn't be the first time this sort of critique came up.

Are you suggesting she didn't pick more Black clerks because she didn't like Black people?

And how many do you think applied??? She was only obligated to pick those most qualified. She wasn't racist, but you can bet Couric lies and is a narcissist.

Her comments about Kaepernick were absolutely racist. Good thing Couric covered for her.

No they were accurate actually. He had a lot of privilege and did himself in. Though I wouldn't believe much coming from her especially from a book she wants to sell.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to work at NBC in the early 2000s. Katie was one of the good ones. There were plenty of ice queens. I'll let you guess which ones those are. Including some who began in DC. Ahem.
I'm amazed that people are reaming her for being honest. This is what goes on at network news. People are competitive. If she were a man, she wouldn't be getting this backlash for competing with colleagues. But because she's a woman, she's being called a b*** and a narcissist. I applaud her for actually being open and unvarnished about how people jockey for power in this industry, and making herself

I asked myself this, if she were a man would I feel differently if he dished about a former colleague's bad breath, lack of humor, rigidity, the time they came on to him, all the personal former colleague content she seems to have written. My answer was I think I would still find it appalling...I would think he was an arrogant di#k. If it was just her writing about the industry and processes, etc. Her experiences fine...she got into personality attacks, who people were in her opinion, or people's vulnerable moments, like she's writing for tmz or or something. These were her colleagues. That was my main issue. Yea it is obviously an ugly industry, no doubt. So I guess if that was the goal, to share that, she certainly achieved it.

Have you read the whole book or excerpts on gossip sites, though? I am reserving full judgment until I read the whole thing.

I suspect that editors/publishers pressure them to include such details, so it gets media pick up, and they sell more books.

Not saying it is right, but perhaps the reality of celebrity publishing.

Yup. I remember listening to a podcast about Jose Canseco's book. They strongly encouraged him to name names re: the baseball steroid scandal, and he was happy to oblige!

Conseco and Couric, two paragons of integrity.

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Anonymous wrote:Now we learn that she protected RBG.

I think it's insulting that she thought RBG needed protecting.

Really?

Had RBG’s comments aired, she would have likely been labeled a paternalistic racist.

Imagine if any white person said those exact words today. They would surely be canceled.

If any rational person looked at RBG and her career I don't know how anyone would of thought of her as a racist. Couric also has no right to edit someone like that, it's disingenuous as a journalist.

How many black clerks did she hire during her tenure as a COA or SCOTUS judge? It wouldn't be the first time this sort of critique came up.

Are you suggesting she didn't pick more Black clerks because she didn't like Black people?

And how many do you think applied??? She was only obligated to pick those most qualified. She wasn't racist, but you can bet Couric lies and is a narcissist.

Her comments about Kaepernick were absolutely racist. Good thing Couric covered for her.

No they were accurate actually. He had a lot of privilege and did himself in. Though I wouldn't believe much coming from her especially from a book she wants to sell.

It's accurate and not racist/xenophobic to tell people who are descendants of slaves in this country that their parents and grandparents could have had a better life "where they came from"? Interesting...

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Quit it with the Kaepernick tangent. RBG was great, but had a crappy opinion, the same opinion as held by maybe half or more Americans - unfortunately a very mainstream opinion. Some of the people holding this opinion don't even get that it is a racist opinion. It is a racist opinion, but I would not go on to label them all racists. RBG still rules, mostly. Kaepernick is still totally 100 righteous.

But here, we are talking about Katie Couric, who does not rule and is not righteous, hahaha.

Was there ever a more celebrated female DC-local boomer? She was all the "cool girl" things of her generation - a cheerleader, a Tri Delt. America's sweetheart. A career woman, but cute and feminine. Got to be a feminist hero to girls, without actually being a feminist (she was only a me-ist). She nailed it!! It's almost understandable that she would be so full of herself. Mean girl writ large.

I figure she is freaking out now, poor thing! It is hard to come down from all that.

I wonder about the people who were her editors/advisers/publishers for this book. It's like they were OK, whatever, it will sell, let her do it, it is her after all.

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R.B was correct on Kaepernick. Activism is great but not during NFL games, or other venues. Not kneeling when you are suppose to stand for the flag. He had the rest of 24/7 to do his activism. That was the entire point. To date he still has been unsigned due to not following NFL rules.

Couric was Matt L. bestie until the media reported on his true behavior. Couric knew exactly what he was...so are we to believe anything she wrote in her book?

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Anonymous wrote:But actually no one cares about Katie Couric except old grandmas, which is the reason I'm the only one updating this thread. I'm not a grandma, I'm a narcissist hater.

Funny how it's age-ism runs rampant in the DCUM comments.

Don't they have a teen forum for pp. Everyone is old when you're a adolescent...or have the brain of one.

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Reading the book now and it's fabulous.

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The real story is that Couric thought that RBG was too old and out-of-it to understand a simple question and didn't report that.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading the book now and it's fabulous.

Must have a low bar...

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Did anyone hear the interview on NPR this afternoon? I heard excerpts and thought her answers were kind of shallow.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading the book now and it's fabulous.

Must have a low bar...

No I'm actually a former literary agent who continues to work in publishing

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Anonymous wrote:Reading the book now and it's fabulous.

Must have a low bar...

No I'm actually a former literary agent who continues to work in publishing

Fabulous? That seems a bit extreme...

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone hear the interview on NPR this afternoon? I heard excerpts and thought her answers were kind of shallow.

The book sounds shallow so there you go...