When ratings dropped among younger women, Pauley - then just 39 - was the first one thrown overboard. Her remarkable rise occurred after NBC News famously botched the transition of Jane Pauley from the program in 1989. (Of course, the three network news anchors of that era, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw, had no part in grooming their successors).īut Couric knew she could be taken out the same way she came in. This much hasn't changed: Couric has been pilloried in the press over early leaks of "Going There," in which she admits she was not the mentoring kind at "Today." It's understandable she would want to protect her turf every woman who made a strong impression at NBC News was touted by the press as a replacement.
It also made her a favorite target for the tabloids and the long lenses of paparazzi.
But she was almost too good at the entertainment elements of morning TV - crooning along with pop stars, dressing up for Halloween and diving head-first into any ratings-driven stunt.īeing described as “perky” and “ America’s Sweetheart” overshadowed her real accomplishments as a journalist capable of hard-hitting interviews. She also stood up for herself, demanding an apology from CNN executive Ed Turner, who said she was hired for her breast size, and telling Bob Wright, then vice chairman of NBC parent General Electric, to back off when he said she was too aggressive in questioning his Bush White House pals.Ĭouric arrived at NBC News as a serious journalist, having quickly learned her craft in local TV and on CNN during its rollicking startup years. Hard-working and extroverted, she over-delivered at every turn, keeping NBC's "Today" show No. There is no relentless people-pleasing in her fearlessly frank memoir, a wildly entertaining and often emotional ride through the volatile media landscape of the last 40 years in which no subject is off limits.Ĭouric, 64, puts herself among the generation of career-oriented women inspired by “ The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” but she was in a class of her own. The breakthrough moment clearly stuck with her.
She was a “pleaser” since childhood, “a master of recruiting people to Team Katie.” “Have you ever considered that maybe not everyone is going to like you?”Ĭouric admits that she hadn’t. In Katie Couric’s new memoir “Going There,” the TV news star recalls a question asked by her therapist. In Katie Couric's new memoir, "Going There," no subject is off limits.
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