She also labeled Sawyer’s interview with Whitney Houston manipulative, writing, per the Post: “There was a very fine line between a revealing interview and the exploitation of troubled, often traumatized people in service of tawdry tidbits and sensational sound bites (e.g., Diane bearing down on an agitated Whitney Houston about eating disorders and drug use, which yielded the memorable comeback ‘crack is whack’). Katie Couric banned from plugging her bombshell book on CBS By Emily Smith and Sara Nathan Octo 4:52pm Katie Couric has been banned from promoting her new book on CBS after. Couric’s booker, however, was able to win the interview by pointing out that Sawyer was a stepmother while Couric was a widowed mother of two girls. The storied host goes on to say that she saw Sawyer as everything she’s not: a tall blonde with a voice “full of money.”Ĭouric also tells some stories about a few of the news anchors’ contentious encounters, including when Sawyer tried to get an interview with abducted teens Jacqueline Marris and Tamara Brooks by depicting herself as a family woman. Another person said that after this book she will 'never get a job at any television network or cable channel ever again because she.

“I loved that I was getting under Diane’s skin,” Couric writes. Couric's last major gig was with Yahoo which ended in 2017. In the book, due out at the end of this month, the former Today show host says, per the New York Post, that she and Sawyer were so competitive about scooping one another for big stories and better ratings that it once prompted her to shout, “That woman must be stopped.” One of her colleagues at the morning show reportedly even got that declaration embroidered on a cushion for her as a gift. Katie Couric is addressing everything about her life and career in her new memoir, Going There, including her intense on-air rivalry with Diane Sawyer.

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