Katie Couric: 'I'm Not Sure The Country Was Ready For A Female Anchor'
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2021
- Former TODAY anchor Katie Couric joins the 3rd Hour of TODAY to talk about her new memoir, "Going There." She explains why she thinks "a lot of it is taken completely out of context to get clicks." Regarding her stint as a CBS evening news anchor after leaving TODAY, she says, “I’m not sure the country was ready for a female evening news anchor.”
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Someone should remind Katie that Barbara Walters, Jessica Savitch, Carole Simpson and Connie Chung were network newscasters long before her stint at CBS.
Exactly right, Andrew! But the ego-centric, mascara gobbed Couric thinks she was a ground breaking feminist journalist (HA!) when she is nothing more than a hateful, nasty wash-up after the publication of the most mean-spirited and flat out cruel book out there. Couric is finished and she knows it.
Exactly right, Andrew! Oddly, I replied to your post earlier, just read it again and it has disappeared! But you probably read it so I don't have to repeat it -- other than to say --- after the mean-spirited and flat out cruel book Couric penned -- she is washed up and finished. No one wants to be around someone so brutally back stabbing and shrill... totally cringe-worthy with gobs of clumped mascara!
THANK YOU! Her gummy smile no longer cuts it.... they are short fangs!
@@annsmith7207 great comment.
OUCH, the truth hurts.
I didn’t care for Katie on Today or any news anchor position, I thought she was over rated. Not being mean, just being honest about how I viewed her.
Isn't that cute?
It was the country's fault she failed at CBS because all of us were still too sexist.
“were” ? Take a look at what Linkden has morphed into. Baby doll selfies of woman.
@@joniheisenberg6691 and who puts those up, men?
@@timjilman3295 No. It is women taking pictures of themselves with trite phrases a la “Be Best.”
Yeah thats BS!😆
Nonsense....Diane Sawyer, is incredible.
We buy into a personality, whether it be a male, or female
For the evening news, do you want Brian Williams, or Mario Lopez ?
Katie, did a great service, advocating for colonoscopies
COURIC'S new book should be called How to Burn Bridges and Rebrand Myself from Perky to Hateful. Why? Is the bigger question.. What a disaster.
Right?!!!! She’s an angry ELF!
I agree with you. She clearly needs something.
Right on
The one where she proudly admitted to misleading America on a hot button topic to help her political party? She is just another cheap propagandist.
She is, was & always has been the ultimate troll archetype.
The entire genre of vampire & zombie films have yet to achieve Katie Couric's flesh gnarling madness.
Christian Bale modeled his American Psycho character after Katie Couric's taut smile.
Katie Couric was lousy as the female anchor. It had nothing to do with the fact that she was female. She seemed so incompetent.
Brian Gumble hated her and thought she was woefully incompetent years ago when no one was listening.
@@Nico-yi2bi how do you know that.
@@Nico-yi2bi
LOL. and I couldn't stand Gumble
When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
Lol does Barbara Walters not exist in her universe?
It was rumored they didn’t get along , Barbra didn’t want her on ABC news back in the day
she was the first female solo anchor of an evening news broadcast. barbara walters + harry reasoner co-anchored the abc evening news
@@carriemonahan7136 Exactly! Barbara was a trailblazer but she was not the first female evening news anchor.
@@eldermcnamara3631 Oooooo. Do tell. I love sipping tea 😏
@@hmacklemore2226 Actually Barbara was the first female evening news anchor. Not first female solo anchor, okay, but first female anchor.
Diane Sawyer who was ABC solo anchor from 2009-2014 did okay and she was even on GMA. Katie Couric went from a fluffy morning breakfast show to being a serious anchor at the evening news desk & people didn't see her as having gravitas.
The scandal over "Katie's Corner" proved them right.
Well I think in Diana's situation, she was an anchor from the start so she comes with that background to solo anchor the evening news on ABC.
@@turntableone4356 Dianna came from "60 Minutes" and prior to that, was in the Nixon Administration. Ms. Sawyer also had a, cough, cough, direct number to Mr. Paley, the Chairman/Owner of CBS.
We didn't know how nasty and hateful Katie really is. Thanks for letting us know the real you. Time to turn the channel!
You knew and you liked it. She draws the flies.
She really is a bad person.
From the looks of your name, you are much more of a bad person than she could ever be.
Maybe they weren't ready for me as an anchorperson. You hit it on the head Miss Couric.
Girl: you weren’t the first female anchor. 🙄
to solo anchor an evening news broadcast
Yes she was. She’s speaking about the CBS Evening News solo role.
Barbara Waters was the first U.S. female *co-anchor* of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the _ABC Evening News_ . Connie Chung was the second woman to *co-anchor* a network newscast alongside Dan Rather as part of _CBS Evening News_ . Jessica Savitch was the *weekend anchor* of _NBC Nightly News_ . Carole Simpson was the *weekend anchor* of _World News Tonight_ . Diane Sawyer became the anchor of _ABC World News_ on December 21, 2009, three years after Couric became anchor and managing editor of the _CBS Evening News with Katie Couric_ on September 5, 2006.
How can anyone not want the honor of being called Grandma or Grandpa?
Everyone has a different choice! You must know that.
@@edglebennett6312 It just seemed like they were opposed to the traditional. If it happens organically, great, otherwise, whatever. My son called his Grandparents Ma & Pa.
@@CatDogWalk It's a choice. Our world is very sensitive about aging. I'm just blessed to be alive ,call me whatever, just call me.
She'd sooner eat the young to gain their vitality than concern herself with such trifling notions.
@@UberAV Really? That's all you got? My land's!
I am sad there is so much negativity around the book. I am eager to read it from my library. I think it’s important to hear people’s stories without judgement.
Katie is the kind of reporter that edits a story to meet her views.
I'm Australian .. so I don't know a whole lot about Katie Couric (except that she interviewed my ex son-in-law!!). I'm just here to say how amazingly fantastic she looks for 64 ! Well done Katie !!!
yes her surgeries worked
Two things: did she apologize to the female journalists she hurt along the way? Secondly, how did she raise her own daughters in how to deal with other women? Was she honest about how she saw women as competition which hurt her brand? Just curious.
Why should she apologize? Did Obama apologize to McCain for beating him? Should Britney Spears apologize for selling more albums than Christina Aguilera? No... it's called being competitive and doing the job.
@Gonewiththewind Oh, please. Couric didn't backstab Banfield, she simply didn't support her moving up in the company. It's called being a competitive employee.
I caught a few minutes of Hoda's and Jenna's interview with Katie. Jenna brought up Deborah Norville and asked Katie if she would be reaching out. I'd you not Katie's response was I 'm going to send her a copy of my book and write I hope read and enjoy this.
Deborah Norville should send the book back in ashes.
@Gonewiththewind Alright then...
Shes no Jessica Savitch who WAS THE BEST ANCHOR EVER
Jessica Savitch was the *weekend anchor* of _NBC Nightly News_ .
terrible, terrible, terrible, no way would I touch your book. So much for the girl next door, the horns came out!
You sound tired and thirsty, hun.
If you read her book you can really see that Katie was very brave and hungry to succeed. Her career is not without challenges but she just goes head on.
This reminds me of Jennifer Aniston's character in the Morning Show. Like... spot on. If you haven't seen the show, its on Apple + - Jennifer plays a Katie Couric type. character & Steve Carrell plays a Matt Lauer type character.
Katie Couric is a menace to society.
I heard that jennifer aniston’s character is actually based in Savannah
Wasn’t Barbara Walters an anchor ? Diane Sawyer ?
Barbara was co-anchor, with a man, and Diane became evening news anchor almost 4 years after Katie started. Check your facts, hun.
Barbara Waters was the first U.S. female *co-anchor* of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the _ABC Evening News_ . Connie Chung was the second woman to *co-anchor* a network newscast alongside Dan Rather as part of _CBS Evening News_ . Jessica Savitch was the *weekend anchor* of _NBC Nightly News_ . Carole Simpson was the *weekend anchor* of _World News Tonight_ . Diane Sawyer became the anchor of _ABC World News_ on December 21, 2009, three years after Couric became anchor and managing editor of the _CBS Evening News with Katie Couric_ on September 5, 2006.
How sweet turns sour.
Aww miss me.. What a joke... She needs money... Go run.. Buy the book... 😆
Sometimes you are not the victim and stop thinking about it
Ladies and Gentlemen, you're witnessing the result of a life that's hit the wall and now the only purpose would be to fill the pages of POF.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POF
Lol girl bye
Katie is absolutely sickening and soooo full of herself!
I always felt she was a mean, nasty person the book just proved that many were right all along!!
Love this interview
At least she named names while the people were still alive!! Unlike a lot of famous people will hint around without ever saying who they were referring to!!
That is just it my dear please can we chat privately ?
Except for RBG…
Shanelle does not seem to like her
Shanelle comes from local news in Philly prior to TODAY so she knows what real and genuine looks like and she sees the fake in her
For very good reason. She may not be interested in throwing softballs.
I’m not buying Katie’s book.I have no interest in reading a book that is very hateful,nasty,and written by a ego driven narcissist.Katie is a bully and a mean girl.she hurt a lot of her former colleagues and was malicious towards them in her book.I’ve heard what she wrote through media and I just find it mean and nasty.i have never ever liked Katie due to her grand ego and narcissistic behavior towards others.she did know and observe Matt layers behavior and I feel she enabled him by not outing him to her bosses and stand up for her female co workers.she and Matt fed on each other and they both used each other.
I'm wondering what Ann Curry & Natalie Morales thinks about it, would love to know.
Perhaps they just weren't ready for someone like Katie Couric, given that were many competent and acclaimed female anchors around the world before Couric's own disastrous attempt at anchoring the evening news. A statement like that says way more about her than about the prevailing culture.
I always felt that she was condescending towards Ann Curry.
The Today Show wouldn’t be what it is today had it not been for Catie Couric, Kathie Lee Gifford, Ann Curry & Natalie Morales. If these could all make a comeback they would most definitely be the G.O.A.T.
Literally only here for the southpark references
The questions show you that there's no honor amongst thieves
America's Sweetheart? Never! I watched her for 15 years; no kindness there, just her own efforts to be taken seriously.
Yes we were ready!
ALL THESE NEIGH SAYERS....I STILL THINK SHE'S GREAT!
Anyone in media is gross but this feels like we have to massage her ego after she covers info up lol this country is becoming a joke. Real men and women need to stand up.
Surprised she didn't blame her failure on the Russians as well.
My instincts were right about this one.
I’ve never liked, Katie Couric.
Katie you built a brand on the Today show as the fun, perky, lady who would bake desserts and interview celebrities. People didn't think of you as a serious journalist. Then you went to CBS and the public was confused about you. You don't get an all access pass with the public. You got out of your lane.
Why does a woman, or anyone for that matter, have to stay in a 'lane', for the public or not? I also thought being diverse and complex was a good thing.
@@waynethepoet88 you’re talking to a guy who is expected to stay in his lane, right?
I think she’s just a pompous twit who genuinely sucked at her job.
Point is, stick to what you’re good at.
Always was a conniving backstabber.
That’s not journalism that censorship.
Money doesn't make you happy.
In her case it made her bitter and snotty.
Also lets go Brandon
I'd pay to watch DWTS featuring Katie Couric and Sean Spicer!!!
The country wasn’t ready for couric in the evening. Period. Not enough gravitas
The phony “girl next door” reveals who she really is… and why people don’t like her!
The Couric is a unit of measurement established inn 1997 by the European Bureau of Fecal Standards and Measurements. One Couric is approximately 1.19 kilograms or 2.57 pounds of human excrement.
Tom Llamas is just there as "Eye Candy." Thanks. I love it. Katie is the perfect example of one failing upwards.
She is nobody friend, just stay away from her.
Just started reading it. Made me realize how much politics is in journalism.
Politics”… i.e. nepotism
Love 💕 Katie Couric 🌹🌹🌹💕
She’s now grouped in with Brian’s Williams. U can’t trust her….
Shame on Katie and her memoir🤦🏼♀️
Whats to be ready?
This when journalism was the best
I have to say I have respect for her she knows what's important family but she is quite self centered
We had Barbara years ago. You didn’t cut it in nighttime news. Without the puff pieces, it’s not your area.
Barbara Waters was the first U.S. female *co-anchor* of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the _ABC Evening News_ .
....Why did you (a journalist) co-chair the Aspen Project on how to censor the Internet? Op-Ed: Why Has Journalist Katie Couric Went To The Dark Side Of Censorship? The Published Reporter.
That's why they gave it to a man
I never cared for her.
You mean an anchor who lies to her audience and edits out context to present a partisan narrative?
When did she work for Fox?
@@ld4974 you think this kind of stuff is exclusive to fox?
@@ld4974 When did Fox.. (you seem obsessed with) edit out that Ruth Bedar Ginsburg denounced the BLM protests? (Like Couric did)
True about Katie Couric: ua-cam.com/video/oOzCrm1G5cM/v-deo.html
@@brienfoaboutanything9037 thank you so much!
You look amazing like 20 years or more you ger
Strikes me (personally) as weird, for lack of better words. The segment she deleted from the Ruth Ginsberg interview was, to me, one of THE MOST redeeming, patriotic stands by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and the bizarre thought that it would "make her look bad" for pointing out the super-stupid and anti-American stance (non-stance(!)) of Colin Kaepernick, et al., is lunacy. God save us in this era of America-hating liberals who have no recognition of how good they have it here!!
Ugh.. you were not the first female anchor 🤭
Barbara Waters was the first U.S. female *co-anchor* of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the _ABC Evening News_ . Connie Chung was the second woman to *co-anchor* a network newscast alongside Dan Rather as part of _CBS Evening News_ . Jessica Savitch was the *weekend anchor* of _NBC Nightly News_ . Carole Simpson was the *weekend anchor* of _World News Tonight_ . Diane Sawyer became the anchor of _ABC World News_ on December 21, 2009, three years after Couric became anchor and managing editor of the _CBS Evening News with Katie Couric_ on September 5, 2006.
Love Katie …love her honesty….anyone who criticizes her for being a queen bee with other women is a judgement hypocrite … people are meat eaters and we all defend our turf and what is ours…. You go girl
Who enjoyed reading books about sports or news people
Katie was too full of herself and she her personal opinions, instead of going by facts which journalists used to do.
Blah, blah, blah...........and who cares?
Trying to sell your book and remain relevant!
and here you are lending to her relevancy
Yet you watched, giving the Today Show some ad money. Commented and boosted the video's popularity in UA-cam. Keep doing your thing, hun... you'll help Katie sell more books!
I was never going to be a fan of leftists like "perky Katie." No longer quite so perky, she is even more radical TODAY.
At least she is being truthful now in her book. I guess she was scared that she can't absolve her sins if she was not being truthful. Clearly she's trying to b perky and fun and the interviewers aren't having any of it. They r not laughing at her fake jokes. She's a terrible person and other ppl suffered from her actions. Ppl shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. But there are bubbly ppl who r terrible ppl and have done horrible things. Her book is going to fly from those shelves. Great tactic.
The country was very ready for a "good" female anchor. Katie was not good. Katie is much better suited for game shows, talks show formats. Ann Currie is so much better as many others were.
There are a bunch of misogynistic fools in here today!
Anyone who is human will understand she's human and not exempt from the experiences and feelings she's sharing in this book. I still like her, she's even more relatable, and we will never get over the fact that we weren't ready for her to leave Today show when she did. It fit her so well, and still does AND ALL IS OK. ALL IS OK. She's a great communicator too!
I agree, it's more realistic to admit one's mistakes and errors than pretend to be perfect. The whole ruckus about Katie not supporting other female journalists and talking candidly about famous folks she met is so silly. It's called real life!
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I know she’s a nice person at heart, but at the end of the day she is the quintessential morning show creampuff - she was definitely not the right choice to succeed the great Dan Rather, imo
wow! 64??
Her basement what now? 2:21
Katie is nothing special. She was the only female anchor pushing that feminist ideology crap.....
Have two seats Katie.
Young 64 !
Wow. Harsh comments on this feed….
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she looks awesome! killing’ em!🔥
This gal is a total whire
Camel or Pall Mall?
Who?
Katie is so full of it u just want to make money right now and this is ur last chance going downhill, we know ur story get off the pedestal please
Why hasn’t GMA or its CBS analog had the issues that Today has had? I have to thk it’s because they had really bad leaders who they entrusted thgs to…Katie has to be painted w some of that brush clearly…can’t have things all ways!!
Nan
Sweet lil girl next door🖕
Didn't care about a female anchor...Barbara Walters came way before her so she's lying...again. blah blah blah
Barbara Waters was the first U.S. female *co-anchor* of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the _ABC Evening News_ . Connie Chung was the second woman to *co-anchor* a network newscast alongside Dan Rather as part of _CBS Evening News_ . Jessica Savitch was the *weekend anchor* of _NBC Nightly News_ . Carole Simpson was the *weekend anchor* of _World News Tonight_ . Diane Sawyer became the anchor of _ABC World News_ on December 21, 2009, three years after Couric became anchor and managing editor of the _CBS Evening News with Katie Couric_ on September 5, 2006.
Is she a lier
I don't think Katie protected Matt she had a lot going on with her husband dying and raising children and a full time job....
She's a hard worker... climb a plateau that for a female isn't easy ... it wasn't her business most of us just want to go to work do our job without getting involved in other people's drama .... these weren't children they were adults who had to handle their own destiny I'm sure she would back them up but certainly not her place to interfere in Matt's business he was way to powerful to mess with at the time....
So far as our Country not being ready for a female anchor.... she is wrong... the world has never been ready for us females .... we have to make them ready
What happened is Katie lost her charm she wasn't her cheerful self on the news and that charismatic part of her is what made her a star.... if she brought that to the table I'm sure she would have made it....she was way too sober and not herself and that's what was the true issue.... lesson learned never forget to be yourself 👍
Katie, has the experience, but, who wants perky evening news anchors ?
J koo hon
Girls like me were so ready and excited for every female anchor! That’s a huge amount of the world’s population. But the workplace was perhaps not set up for women to succeed or work safely for that matter.
It seems like now days there are only female journalists.
I think there are more women reporters for sure than there used to be, but I don’t know if there are more than men. It’s good to see an equal (or about) amount of both men and women, but more importantly intelligent and good people.
@@simplifyhandles yeah exactly. They said during the interview that she was first woman to anchor a major nightly news cast on a huge network. Well Lester Holt is the first African American to anchor a weekday nightly news cast.
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