50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers
New York Press, recently made known to conservatives by Matt Taibi’s piece attacking the Pope and the Catholic Church, has published a list of the 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers. Tom Wolfe did not make the list for writing I Am Charlotte Simmons- a surprise from the Press. Eliot Spitzer (#35) did - another surprise. Particularly apt:
24. Katie Couric Co-host, The Today Show Couric’s cloying little-girl shtick on NBC’s Today Show is annoying enough, considering that behind the mask of “America’s sweetheart” is a hard-nosed executive drawing one of the biggest paychecks in television. Her reportedly $16 million annual salary isn’t what makes Couric loathsome, however. It’s her disingenuous toeing of the line between serious journalist and corporate media whore. Couric’s stratospheric stock has long ridden on her supposed ability to shift effortlessly between fluff and “real reporting”—meaning she can move from a fawning segment flogging the latest big-budget Hollywood pap to a “serious” news story like the Michael Jackson trial, all without batting a mascara-caked eyelash. The blow-up doll was even rumored to be a candidate for Dan Rather’s chair at the CBS Evening News, proving once again that an unctuous ability to operate as a chameleon is a prized asset in the morally bankrupt world of big media.
Posted on 3/31/2005 03:23 PM
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