Posted on 07/08/2007 5:05:39 PM PDT by CAWats
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 manor.
"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...
"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 manor.
"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...
Katie has “jumped the shark”!
But ... ... ... did she call him a “FJB”?
I guess you can liken this to Joan Crawford and wire hangers.
As much as I dislike the CBS evening news and KC, I have to be a bit skeptical over the story, or the severity of the incident.
The timing of it is suspicious. They want her out pretty bad.
But what comes around, goes around.
Very nice. Very nice indeed!
Oh well just too typical of the lib loons mind set...they’re all idiots....very little depth...
Katie...it wasn’t sputum on that blue dress...get over it.
She’s the shark’s sputum.
‘Pop’ goes the weasel. Imagine if that were Rush, or Hannity, or Tony Snow, or W.F. Buckley...we’d never hear the end of it.
If you get slapped by a b#*ch, does that mean you’ve been b#*ch slapped? ;^)
Everyone call the network and leave a message on her answering machine: “Sputum, sputum. sputum, SPUTUM!”
Seriously, how can a newsreader object to any words she’s supposed to read? Did she get “sputum” confused with “semen”?
A decade from now Katie will emcee the rollout of the Boeing 797.
Typical diva behavior.
(Diva: a polite term for `world class b!tch)
Ecclesiastes isn’t quoted too often. Thank you.
Gil
yes!
I still remember her intolerably smug treatment of Dan Quayle. Until the dinosaur media actually gets some intellect, they are bound to have more cat scraps like this.
I think I see SPUTUM in your tagline.
A CBS insider says Couric slapped the staffer in a playful manor.
A “playful manor?”
Is that like a “fun house?”
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