In one chapter, she addresses the controversy around 'Under the Gun,' the documentary she produced in which an editor made gun owners look like they couldn't answer the simplest of questions. She shares how she dressed as a flight attendant on a doomed air flight for a Halloween party and was tone-deaf in covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots.īut too often Couric paints herself as either the victim of her times or someone on the sidelines. She confesses that she 'protected' the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from public scrutiny by cutting inflammatory comments that Ginsburg made in an interview about quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Lee.Ĭouric would argue that she's also tough on herself. While she spends much of the book drooling over her beloved (there's a little too much about their sex life) she questions his fascination with the Civil War and speculates that he had misguided affection for Robert E.

Producer Jeff Zucker goes from being her staunchest ally to a smug know-it-all who helped doom their short-lived syndicated series, 'Katie.'Įven her late husband, Jay Monahan, doesn't escape criticism. She meticulously documents her relationship with Matt Lauer and how it slowly unraveled after he was fired for inappropriate workplace behavior, reprinting their text exchanges that became more and more chilly. The former 'Today' show and CBS news anchor paints a world full of masochist gatekeepers who get away with bad behavior - or at least they did during her rise to the top. Many of Couric's victims deserve the jabs. Marissa Mayer was in over her head at Yahoo even worse, she once arranged for a lunch meeting at a joint that specialized in soup. Prince Harry had a strong aroma of alcohol and cigarettes oozing from every pore.įormer CBS execs Jeff Fager and David Rhodes are 'self-satisfied schmucks.' The '60 Minutes' crew wouldn't give her a second of their time. Former CBS chairman Les Moonves is a close talker with bad breath. Tom Werner may have helped the Boston Red Sox return to their winning ways, but he was a loser of a boyfriend.

Her gossip-filled autobiography 'Going There,' published Tuesday, reads more like a never-ending vendetta than a memoir.Īlmost every short chapter comes across like a rabbit punch aimed at the kidneys of one former acquaintance after another. Katie Couric has finally shed that perky persona.

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