{"id":73164,"date":"2021-10-03T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=73164"},"modified":"2021-10-03T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:34:10","slug":"newsroom-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/10\/03\/newsroom-dish\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsroom Dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I told you that <strong>Rachel Maddow <\/strong>made a sweet deal with <em>MSNBC<\/em>?&nbsp; Now that the details have gone public, some of her colleagues are not so happy \u2013 particularly because her $30 million contract set a record previously held by <strong>Matt Lauer <\/strong>(speaking of sexual assault).&nbsp; Interestingly enough, the person most annoyed by Rachel\u2019s raise is <strong>Savannah Guthrie<\/strong>.&nbsp; She feels she\u2019s being underutilized.&nbsp; Funny, I think she\u2019s utilized plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Bad blood is nothing new in the news business.&nbsp; Remember <strong>Barbara Walters <\/strong>and <strong>Harry Reasoner<\/strong>?&nbsp; Or Barbara Walters and the chimp?&nbsp; People usually don\u2019t go public with their grievances until they have nothing to lose.&nbsp; And that brings us to <strong>Katie Couric<\/strong>\u2019s new memoir, <strong><em>Going There<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; So rarely has one person been given so many opportunities and squandered each and every one.&nbsp; Couric has bounced from outlet to outlet with alarming regularity.&nbsp; Her last employer was <em>Yahoo <\/em>\u2013 and when you can\u2019t make it on Yahoo, that\u2019s that.&nbsp; Some of Couric\u2019s targets include <strong>Martha Stewart<\/strong>, Matt Lauer, <strong>Ashley Banfield<\/strong>, <strong>Larry King<\/strong>, <strong>Deborah Norville<\/strong>, and even <strong>Diane Sawyer<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cI loved that I was getting under Diane\u2019s skin,\u201d says Couric.&nbsp; Oh, but it gets better: \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I speak for Diane when I say neither of us ever resorted to actual fellatio to land an interview.\u201d&nbsp; Or, I daresay, a spouse!!&nbsp; People who have read the manuscript are saying she\u2019ll never work in news again.&nbsp; I could have told you that BEFORE the book!<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <strong>Natalie Morales <\/strong>has resigned from <strong><em>Today<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Allegedly, she\u2019s \u201cbeen offered an opportunity she\u2019s passionate about and has decided to step away from <em>NBC News<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; Maybe she\u2019s the new face of Yahoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I told you that Rachel Maddow made a sweet deal with MSNBC?&nbsp; Now that the details have gone public, some of her colleagues are not so happy \u2013 particularly because her $30 million contract set a record previously held by Matt Lauer (speaking of sexual assault).&nbsp; Interestingly enough, the person most annoyed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73173,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164\/revisions\/73173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}