Posted on 07/09/2007 6:06:15 AM PDT by SkyPilot
CBS EVENING NEWS anchor Katie Couric is being accused of slapping an editor -- after he injected a word she detested into a script!
"The stress has caused her to blow up at her staff for small infractions on the set," charges NEW YORK magazine reporter Joe Hagan, in a story set for publication on Monday.
"During the tuberculosis story in June, Couric got angry with news editor Jerry Cipriano for using a word she detested— 'sputum' —and the staff grew tense when she began slapping him 'over and over and over again' on the arm, according to a source familiar with the scene. It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasn’t kidding."
A top CBS executive tells the DRUDGE REPORT that no formal complaint has been filed against Couric over the incident.
"I sort of slapped him around,” Couric admits to the magazine. “I got mad at him and said, 'You can’t do this to me. You have to tell me when you’re going to use a word like that.' I was aggravated, there's no question about that.' But she says she has a good relationship with Cipriano. 'We did ban the word sputum from all future broadcasts. It became kind of a joke."
A CBS insider says Couric slapped the staffer in a playful manner.
"Look, it wasn't serious, whatsoever."
The magazine fronts the nearly 6,000-word expose with the headline: "I have days when I'm like, 'Oh my God, What did I do?' KATIE COURIC'S IMPOSSIBLE YEAR"
Developing...
Liberalism and psychotic episodes seem to go hand in hand.
Katie has not been looking “perky” for quite some time.
He lives for those slaps.
sputum? she doesn’t mind having a public internationally seen colonoscopy but has a problem saying sputum?
Viewers weren't ready - Katie First hint of regret for Couric as ratings plummet
She is an over paid, over pampered limousine liberal diva wannabe.
The idiots who watched her on TV had the attention span of a gnat. See BS thought she had this huge following. Most of those were the same dolts who get their news from Oprah.
This is like watching the Titanic sink in slow motion.
A slap on the arm doesn’t count, even repeatedly. It is only a way to add emphasis to the conversation. < /sarc >
Oh, the tortured life of a newsreader....full of surprise words.
Interesting, I have heard nary of word of defense for Couric from CBS. Not even the “we’re behind her 100%” line most pro sport franchise owners say weeks before they fire the coach.
maybe she thought she was interviewing Al Gore (Igor)
After each slap on the arm I’d yell Sputum!, Sputum! LOL
Then I’d level her. (grin)
“Touch me again and I'll kill'ya.”
Katie is a news reader.
She only reads what is put in front of her. She probably got mad over the word Sputum, because she , like those who watch her, didnt know what it meant.
The only people who watch Katie are those who are too dumb to read themselves.
The colonoscopy was important because the camera gave us a view of her character. We could see that she was truly an as. . .- nevermind.
Pray for W and Our Troops
NY Times is for people who can’t think, PBS is for people who can’t read and Couric is for people who can’t do either.
LOL! Yeah, if they want her to use words like that, they should have to pay her more than what she now makes — a paltry $15 million.
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