Katie Couric’s “Going There” Provides Her Thoughts About Some D.C. TV Newscasters
Going There, the new memoir from Katie Couric, an Arlington, VA, native who was a local DC TV reporter before ascending to network-news stardom, produced a few choice descriptions of colleagues from her time at Channel 4, reports Washingtonian magazine. And, continues Washingtonian, while none of them “are quite as likely to drive headlines as her dish about the likes of Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Deborah Norville, or the disgraced Matt Lauer, there are some memorable asides all the same,” including:
Pat Collins: A “Beltway fixture” who “had the twinkly-eyed, ruddy face of someone who’d wandered in from County Clare. Had we met a century earlier, he would be happily dipping my braids in the inkwell.”
Susan Kidd: “A ballsy anchor with an Angela Davis vibe.”
Steve Doocy: “Long before he became the host of Fox and Friends, he was a benignly funny features guy at WRC.” He emceed Couric’s wedding reception.
Wendy Rieger: “A leggy looker at WRC and my complete opposite.”
Barbara Harrison: A “warm, impeccably dressed morning anchor,” she was “the first time I ever saw Bulgari jewelry in the wild.”
I.J. Hudson: When management wanted the young Couric to do a cringe-worthy sweeps-week feature called “No Time for Sex,” she suggested the veteran male reporter instead. “He’s married with children; he probably doesn’t have time for sex. I’m 27 and single. I have plenty of time!”
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