How Katie Couric Really Feels About Her Time At CBS

Katie Couric would become the first solo nighttime news anchor at CBS in September of 2006. Incidentally, Barbara Walters co-anchored the ABC Evening News from 1976 until 1978 according to History. The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric debuted right after Dan Rather left the position in disgrace. So, it must be said that the former daytime host hardly stepped in front of the cameras under the best of circumstances. Remember, Rather was fired after the accuracy of his report about former President George W. Bush’s military service was called into question (via EW).

Enter Couric, who revealed in her memoir “Going There” that by 2005, she was “getting restless” at Today (via Page Six). “I longed to be respected for my journalistic chops, and although I’d done many serious interviews in the morning, the fun stuff, which I had a blast doing — like flying across the plaza dressed as Peter Pan while flinging phosphorescent confetti, fulfilling my dream of being a backup singer for Darlene Love, hurling myself onto a Velcro wall — was what people remembered,” she wrote, adding the show seemed to be losing its edge.

And so, Couric started her gig as a nighttime anchor on CBS. Just years later, everything fell apart.

Post source: The List

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