Katie Couric on Diane Sawyer: вЂI Wonder Who She Blew This Time’
In a juicy brand new tell-all guide, Couric comes across as brash, striving, and self-absorbed, and Sawyer is really a Machiavellian, often-inscrutable workaholic.
Lloyd Grove
Editor most importantly
The Day-to-day Beast
The moment of truth is about to arrive—or at least a book-length facsimile thereof for Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour.
News executives and community publicists have now been distracting by themselves using this summer time’s seriously depressing or perhaps world that is alarming by moving around and poring over bound galleys regarding the News Sorority, veteran journalist Sheila Weller’s gossipy chronicle of this increase (and occasional stumbles) of three of tv news’ best-known ladies.
In Weller’s narrative—which, as the subtitle indicates, aspires to report “the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV Information”—Couric comes down as brash, striving, self-absorbed, and sometimes insensitive towards the realities faced by her less well-compensated colleagues, yet steeled by individual tragedy (the cancer-related fatalities of her spouse along with her cousin) and with the capacity of big-hearted generosity.
Sawyer is just a Machiavellian, often-inscrutable workaholic who utilizes her seductive charm and visual appearance to expert advantage and torments news producers together with her relentless perfectionism and insecurity—an apparent result of a fraught relationship along with her judgmental, solid mom (whom once delivered the adult Sawyer as a self-flagellating death spiral, Weller writes, whenever she criticized just exactly exactly how her TV star daughter had made her bed).