Couric seems like someone who was obviously enmeshed in a fiercely competitive boys club and wanted to be at the top, and did what it took to stay there, over decades, paying little time and attention to the inner life and tending to relationships. (Just like the nanny said). She obviously had little work life balance...She seems like the old school model of a self absorbed, workaholic man to me. What a shitty industry she was in... Even her language, is so coarse and blunt ( "I did not think people were jonesing to see my colon"). What the hell is up with this language? Then she starts therapy, gets a small taste of insight and runs with it, deciding she doesn't give a sh*t if she is not not "pleasing" she's going to say whatever she wants and we are all supposedly going to cheer her new empowerment. It's so classically narcissistic and unfortunate that she went to the other extreme....from preoccupied to pleasing to being an insensitive pri*k. And she can't see herself and does not care...she's proud of herself. What a sad commentary.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049012311/katie-couric-going-there-memoir |
She has the ego of the men in that business during that retro ers and the attitudes and behaviors of a lot of them too, and that's not necessarily a compliment. She showed no moral courage on the Lauer situation, and other situations as well and looked the other way and basically was mostly focused on herself and her career, admitting it probably kept her from seeing her husband was jaundiced and ill early on. I say this as a working woman...This is not anything to be proud of and she was a living embodiment of the toxic culture she was immersed in for decades. Not a great role model at all in the ways that have to do with personal character in my opinion. Really sad to learn. |
She certainly seemed hungry and thirsty that's for sure (and probably still is). |
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I love the book. |
Wow. Sad for her to do that. |
I'm pp and you've totally hit the nail on the head. I think we've taken the whole use your voice to mean say anything you want with disregard for anyone else. What about compassion and grace? |
Yes and empathy and maybe dignity? Would she want her past colleagues to speak about her in the same demeaning tone she has taken with them here? Devaluing them as people? I doubt it. |
Katie Couric is over. She's no Oprah or Martha Stewart.
Diane Sawyer seems classier, more intelligent. Katie's slide to obscurity starts now. Hope her personal relationships will sustain her. |
+1 Agreed on Sawyer...a much more emotionally stable, self aware person. And more sophisticated, yes. |
If I had built a potential legacy over decades and was on the cusp of blowing it up and "going there" I really hope someone would help stop me. Wondering why that did not happen. |
I thought about this too and I think no one cared. Maybe some people intervened like, do you really want to do this? And she really wanted to do this. Now the publishing people know they will sell her book no matter, so what do they care. Why do you extend yourself to save Katie Couric from showing everyone her ass, if she is intent on doing so? |
B/c they were all probably happy she made a jacka$$ out of herself. |
She'll have a new daytime show by next year mark my words |
Supposedly she is desperate to get back on TV |