Katie Couric: "I feel like a human piñata. No candy is going to spill out"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Profile in Couric: Bashed but unbowed

Katie Couric wishes her detractors would put away their baseball bats.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/333247p-284759c.html

"I feel like a human piñata," says the "Today" anchor. "The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out."

Couric, whose $13 million salary could buy a lot of Wonka bars, knows that criticism "goes with the territory, unfortunately, of being successful and female." But she admits in this week's New Yorker magazine that it hasn't been "a lot of fun" being branded as a diva and blamed for her show's ratings slide.

Couric still has a better Q rating for viewer approval than "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer, who earns $12 million. But her "negative Q" - the audience of Katie-haters - has gone up 20% in the past four years, while Sawyer's rose half as quickly, according to the mag.

Couric denies that she's tried to tart up her image since her husband, Jay Monahan, died in 1998. "I've never tried to be uber-sexy," she tells writer Ken Auletta over lunch. (She volunteers that her beige suit is from Banana Republic.) "I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. ... I grew my hair out and got it lightened for the simple reason that I'm pretty gray, and this means I don't have to go to the hairdresser as often."

[Shell Beau]

1. I personally can't stand her. I don't know

why; she just irks me. I do like Diane Sawyer, though.

[Sannum]

2. I can't stand her.

She is as much of a journalist as I am Queen of England.

[papau]

3. She's the only NBC'er that fights back against GE ordered RW spin

Granted she does it with "opps-we were not to talk about that- sorry"

a con-game approach perhaps - but she shows more guts that Matt Lauer.

Indeed I am hitting CBS and ABC more in the morning - but Katie is the only reason that I still tune in NBC.

[DS1]

4. I looked up her asshole

:-)

[miss_kitty]

5. She was great when she nailed Poopy Bush to the wall

during a WH tour being conducted by Bar. He wandered in w/ the dogs, all ready to hype his latest criminal act and she just wouldn't have it. It's what got her the job. Apparently she's had to do something different to keep it. :eyes:

[FredScuttle]

6. Let's face it....

many people think she's a jerk

(intentional reference to her disgraceful "interview" of Michael Moore last year)

[blondeatlast]

7. Pinatas are amd up of paier mache, flexible wire, paint, and crepe

paper.

Ya know, I believe she's right!