If Katie Couric is preparing to square off against Diane Sawyer over Sawyer’s anchor spot my money is on Sawyer.
Ambitious news presenter Katie Couric is said to be eyeing up Diane Sawyer’s hot seat on ABC World News.
The 54-year-old newswoman serves as a special correspondent for the network – but according to insiders is keen to fill in for anchor Sawyer, 65, when she is away.
However, this news has apparently not gone down well with veteran Diane – who wants her rival to stay well away from her chair.
A source told the National Enquirer: ‘[Couric’s] time as anchor on CBS wasn’t very successful, but she’d like to show she can still do it,’ but added Sawyer would be ‘very unhappy if they use Katie as her substitute when she’s off.’
I bet; Sawyer doesn’t strike me as a Barbie font fan.
Couric’s new daytime talk show launching in September, but doing a daytime show gives a host less relevance than if they are the gatekeepers of the evening news, the face that families welcome into their homes as they prepare dinner and unwind from the day. If the speculation is accurate (and I take the National Enquirer more seriously now after they were the only media outlet willing to report on the John Edwards scandal–what does that say about the state of news?), it doesn’t bode well for Couric’s new endeavor that she is already planning for its failure or suggesting it’s but a stepping stone to another nighttime anchor job.
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