Katie Couric Slaps Staffer for Using “Icky” Word

~ 7.10.07 ~

Katie CouricKatie Couric is struggling as the anchorwoman of the CBS Evening News.

Katie Couric has been in the news lately because no one watches her doing the news. Go figure that one out, because I can’t. Anyway, Ms. Couric is apparently having second thoughts about being a real journalist and often wishes she were back on The Today Show doing hard-hitting interviews with Tom Cruise’s hot Latin “masseuse” Rafael.

Katie is so stressed about her job as CBS Evening News anchor that she battered an editor over a word:

Her frustration boiled over in June, after news editor Jerry Cipriano used the word “sputum,” a word she detests, in a piece about tuberculosis. Couric subsequently slapped Cipriano “over and over and over again” on the arm, according to eyewitnesses.

For those of you who don’t know, sputum is matter that is coughed up from the respiratory tract—such as mucus or phlegm mixed with saliva—that when spat out onto any flat surface looks remarkably like Katie Couric’s face. No one likes to be reminded they look like a loogie, and Katie is definitely no one.


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