Is Katie Couric a domineering prima donna who would do anything to claw her way to the top?
'Absolutely!' proclaims known muckraker Ed Klein, whose new unauthorized bio depicts Couric as a manipulative power-hungry shrew.
Armed with the testimony of various unreliable sources, Klein asserts that Couric alienated her Today show colleagues, willfully destroyed the marriage of a prominent CNN exec, and stood by her ailing husband, Jay Monahan—who died of colon cancer in 1998—purely out of "fear of negative publicity."
Writes the NYDN:
Klein contends "Couric was so chillingly calculating that cynics at NBC took bets on how long it would take her to exploit Monahan's death."
"Some said 72 hours; others just 24 hours," Klein writes.
For the record, Klein wrote a similarly unsubstantiated hatchet-job on Hillary Clinton (ironically entitled "The Truth About Hillary") back in June of 2005. Meanwhile, it should be noted that Couric waited until March of 2000 before electing to undergo an on-air colonoscopy—an act which is singularly credited with both raising public awareness for colon cancer and causing colonoscopy rates (which lead to early detection) to increase by more than 20% nationwide.
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