Edward R. Morrow User ID: 169261 United States 07/09/2007 06:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor MAG: COURIC 'SLAPPED' STAFFER Sun Jul 08 2007 19:44:52 ET
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. Katie Courics plummeting ratings have pushed her over the edge. She has blamed the audience, CBS, old people, young people, men, women and Dan Rather for her lack of audience appeal. Maybe it's just Katie Couric who is to blame?
"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"
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Joe (OP) User ID: 169261 United States 07/09/2007 06:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor Couric ---"I be told you Biach, don't use that word. Know what I'm sayin.".....slap, slap, bank, slap, slap.
Editor----"O.Tay,Mam, I be no using dat word again. Please don't bitch slap me, Massa" |
Bitch Slappin Boogie (OP) User ID: 169261 United States 07/09/2007 06:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 160123 United States 07/09/2007 07:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor So, couldn't she have changed the word? She's the one reading it, for Dan Rather's sake. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 245877 United States 07/09/2007 07:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor she's a cunt
people who still watch tv would rather get their daily lies from abc/nbc |
Don't Be Evil
User ID: 221040 United States 07/09/2007 07:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor From all the headlines I thought she had almost beaten some poor young intern to death with a cell phone or something! All right, she should not hit an employee, even in play, but hey, she's human! She hit this fellow "playfully" on the arm, and he did not go for the three million dollar lawsuit! This should be the news item, not that she slapped him on the arm. Perspective is a good thing in life. :) All power is largely an illusion.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 245877 United States 07/09/2007 07:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor Quoting: Bitch Slappin Boogie 169261 lol! not too far off from "ouch my balls!" from the movie Idiocracy |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 96486 United States 07/09/2007 07:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor |
Booger (OP) User ID: 169261 United States 07/09/2007 07:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Katie Couric Allegedly Bitch Slaps her Editor Quoting: Anonymous Coward 96486 Say, bitch, y'all know you can't use the word 'sputum' on my show. A better phraseology would be, 'hock a loogie'......I'm just sayin. |