Katie Couric Girl-Slaps NYTimes

[Gratiot]

Wow. This is good. In her 'Notebook' on CBSNews.com, Katie Couric takes down New York Times columnist Alessandra Stanley, and she does it in the cruelest of ways: without mentioning her by name.

Last Friday night, Stanley wrote this piece on the death of Walter Cronkite. By the time editors got through with the already-published piece there were, as Couric puts it, "not one, not two but seven errors about [Cronkite's] life and career."

And here's where it gets good. There is no love lost between the anchor and the columnist. The most memorable Stanley story on Couric may be this 2005 take-down of the then-Today show anchor: "At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights," Stanley wrote about Couric.

Well, this might be Couric's payback. And just look at the smile on her face during the segment...

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[Chris]

Funny, but it's not going to get any more people to watch her on CBS.  If she did the news in a bikini and covered in baby oil, I might watch, but you'd have to throw Julie Chen in there.