But we both engaged in the metaphoric kind – flattering gatekeepers, family members, and whoever else stood in the way of a big get.”īut in many ways Couric’s blistering book is summoning a world that has to a large extent ceased to exist: where top TV anchors were the “voice of God” to Americans stuck in front of their televisions and consuming news from a handful of networks. She adds: “I’m pretty sure I speak for Diane when I say neither of us ever resorted to actual fellatio to land an interview. In blunt language that might shock some readers, Couric jokingly wonders who Sawyer “had to blow” to score a big interview with a woman who’d given birth to twins at 57.

“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,” Couric writes. Among her most damaging criticisms was that Sawyer took advantage of a clearly troubled Whitney Houston in an interview in which the singer was put in the position of defending her use of crack cocaine. She says Sawyer was everything she wasn’t – tall, blonde, with a voice “full of money”. “I loved that I was getting under Diane’s skin,” she writes. Couric says that Sawyer was so desperate to beat her in the morning TV ratings wars that she declared: “That woman must be stopped.” She holds her most scathing criticism for the ABC Good Morning America anchor Diane Sawyer. But she also reveals some of the appalling behavior of her peers, including the late CNN interviewer Larry King, who, she writes, made a “lunge” for her across a sofa.

Little, Brown and Company, Couric’s publisher, told the outlet that the book is “heartfelt, hilarious and very honest”.Īcross 500 pages, Couric, 64, is reported to have a put-down for almost everyone, from Martha Stewart – “some healthy humbling (prison will do that …) to develop a sense of humor” Prince Harry – cigarettes and alcohol seem to “ooze from every pore” industry colleagues like Deborah Norville – “relentless perfection”. According to the New York Post, which obtained a copy of her tell-all memoir Going There, which is scheduled for release later this month. Couric takes aim at former colleagues, lovers, friends and professional frenemies in harsh terms, throwing off the sexist persona of the perky girl-next-door forced on her for decades.Ĭouric’s list of grievances is as long as it explicit.

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