I was asking her about Colin Kaepernick, and her response surprised me. On why she excluded some of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's response to her interview question about Colin Kaepernick in 2016
That if there is a power differential, the notion of something being consensual doesn't necessarily hold.
I think our understanding of what is a consensual relationship - I mean, I think that's really the nub of it - has changed so dramatically. You never knew kind of what was true and what wasn't. There were relationships going on with bosses and their subordinates that you heard about. You know, there were extramarital relationships going on that were pretty much out in the open. I think the culture back then was kind of "don't ask, don't tell." Like, you didn't really want to get involved in people's - what was considered their personal life. Opinion Manipulative Editing Reflects Poorly On Katie Couric, Gun Documentary The Today show said it was OK if you come to Good Morning America first." And honestly, it was so intense and - especially in the morning where somebody would be in a hotel room and someone would call up and say, "We're here to pick you up. It was left to the women who were involved in a lot of primetime shows to try to get these gets. That period of time was sort of - sensational stories seemed to dominate the headlines. On the "catfight" narrative used to describe the morning TV news climate And what it was like to see the allegations about her friend and former co-host, Matt Lauer, who was fired from NBC for sexual misconduct.Ĭouric reflected on that time in broadcast television, during the 1990s and the 2000s, in an interview with NPR's Weekend Edition. She recounts the heartbreak as she lost her husband, Jay Monahan, and her sister, Emily Couric, to cancer. She also details what was happening in her personal life at the time. In her new memoir, Going There, Couric dishes on what audiences couldn't always see during the years she worked for ABC, CBS, NBC and Yahoo. It was the cutthroat heyday of morning news shows, when ratings often trumped ethics. Television journalist Katie Couric's new memoir, Going There, is a behind-the-scenes look at her personal life and professional strife in the years she anchored top morning news shows.Įvan Agostini/Invision/AP/Little, Brown and CompanyĪt the height of her journalism career, Katie Couric's success at the Today show rested on balancing a girl-next-door likability with getting the story.
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