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.

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.

Ok, point taken... does it look well written? Curious about your take on that.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how basic and poor her writing is, specifically the abundance of cliches: "textbook narcissist" (warner) "bad feelings" (norville) , cigarettes and alcohol "oozing from every pore." (Harry). She was at the top of her field and yet her writing is so trite.

Why does this surprise you?

Couric is the epitome of “trite.”

She was a morning show presenter. Her job was to simply read a dumbed down version of the news while chatting with vapid celebs and colleagues.

She was a journalist, major network news anchor, producer and has her own multimedia company, she was not just a morning show presenter.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe how basic and poor her writing is, specifically the abundance of cliches: "textbook narcissist" (warner) "bad feelings" (norville) , cigarettes and alcohol "oozing from every pore." (Harry). She was at the top of her field and yet her writing is so trite.

Why does this surprise you?

Couric is the epitome of “trite.”

She was a morning show presenter. Her job was to simply read a dumbed down version of the news while chatting with vapid celebs and colleagues.

I can't believe how basic and poor her writing is, specifically the abundance of cliches: "textbook narcissist" (warner) "bad feelings" (norville) , cigarettes and alcohol "oozing from every pore." (Harry). She was at the top of her field and yet her writing is so trite.

There is a very childish part she displayed in the book...mixed in with her sophistication and experience. I would be mortified by the hurt she has elicited in her former colleagues...now she privately is likely having to backtrack and do some repair. She looks petty and mean ...even if what she says is true (that the book is more balanced and she says lovely things about her colleagues as well) the tone is skewing negative.

Her words and descriptions for people and events sound so dramatic and inflated...which makes me suspect she is likely that way... adolescent thinking and writing for a woman of her age and accomplishments.

Anonymous wrote:I find her more relatable than 99.99 percent of other TV news ice queens. She has a hot loaded husband, a huge career, close-knit fam and more money than God. And her publicist is playing the press like a violin with this book.

Eh, I doubt it. She's not looking enviable anymore, more petty and desperate. I also would wait on actual book sales before claiming her publicist is fabulous. I don't think the promos so far are generating positive buzz or interest...more negative actually. I think I am in her book demographic and I might have bought it if it was more serious and she was a better writer. Have lost a lot of respect for her, actually and I'm not the only one...that's no small thing. She wants very much to be respected..Her career is not "huge" anymore btw. Yes she's rich so if that's your standard she has it all. She had two adult daughters and has had significant losses in her personal family life....also not sure that is all that enviable. She raised her daughters alone.

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.

This ex boyfriend, Tom Werner, worth at one time $600M, she described as "textbook narcissist" because he broke up with her by email.

"She pressed him and he balked, leading to the infamous e-mail, Klein said.

“It was a long message which described how Tom did not feel he could continue his relationship with her.”

But the two did get back together one last time – when CBS was considering Katie for the anchor chair. Werner, the book says, acted as Couric’s rabbi with the CBS suits and ultimately she won the job – only to be devastated by bad ratings and pitiless press.

Since the 2005 Werner bust-up, Couric has been linked to several new guys including, most recently, entrepreneur Brooks Perlin, who, at 33, is 17 years younger than the news queen. Tom has been mostly solo."

He doesn't sound like a narcissist to me.

"In one book chapter in the book, she details how Monahan — the father of her daughters Carrie, now 25, and Ellie, 30 — was a Civil War buff who collected Confederate artifacts and participated in reenactments up until just four months before his death, writing she treated his “passion for the Confederacy with amused tolerance, seeing it as a benign hobby” and threw him an Old South-themed 40th birthday party.

But with hindsight, she is embarrassed that an “incensed” Monahan delivered a nine-page speech to the United Daughters of the Confederacy after the group was denied a patent renewal for their Confederate-flag logo. He “vilified” Sen. Carol Moseley Braun’s comments against the logo as “venomous” and called the press that covered it “obsessed with appearing politically correct.”"

Ew!!!!

"Couric admits she gave younger journalist Ashleigh Banfield the cold shoulder early on because helping her would have been “self sabotage” and that “I’d heard her father was telling anyone who’d listen that she was going to replace me.”

Banfield responded this week by saying that, in fact, her “senile” father was in a care home at the time and had simply told a Post reporter he hoped his daughter, then an Afghanistan correspondent for NBC, would be “given a desk job like Katie’s.”

Banfield told The Post: “Her words have really hit me hard. She was my North Star. I always looked at her as one of the most brave presenters … at a time when we were all called bimbos. She was the best morning show host ever. I’m just gobsmacked.”

She now wonders if Couric undermined her career.

“NBC left me brokenhearted. I was at the top of my game in 2002. But just as quickly as I rose, I was derailed and given no explanation. They took away my office, my desk, my phone, my computer … They never told me why. It was the most painful mystery. When I heard about Katie’s comments I wondered if that was the reason.”"

Whatta beeotch.

Anonymous wrote:I find her more relatable than 99.99 percent of other TV news ice queens. She has a hot loaded husband, a huge career, close-knit fam and more money than God. And her publicist is playing the press like a violin with this book.

Lol, ok. She has exposed herself as the ding-dong that she really is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find her more relatable than 99.99 percent of other TV news ice queens. She has a hot loaded husband, a huge career, close-knit fam and more money than God. And her publicist is playing the press like a violin with this book.

Hi Katie!!

Not Katie. but hiiii