It's All About Katie's Kids
I know it's anatomically challenging, but the New York Times' Bill Carter continues to fellate Katie Couric. After previously describing how incredibly amicable her defection from NBC has been, Carter is now allowed to write on the front page of the New York Times that Katie Couric's decision to move to CBS was really about
what was in the best interests of her children.
Don't you just hate it when famous people defend the privacy of their children for years and years, then quickly sacrifice that privacy in order to make their ambition appear warm and fuzzy?
And then the New York Times actually prints stuff like, "That the most important people in her life had confirmed her own inclinations surely made it easier for Ms. Couric to decide..."—with a straight face?
Here's what's going on here: Carter is terrified of getting beaten by the tabloids and other media on this big story. (The New York Times isn't used to competition.) So he writes a puff piece about how amicable everything is, and then, when Couric decides to go public, she grants him an exclusive interview. Not wanting to lose that access, he writes another puff piece.
Journalists.....
