Couric wins award for excellence in journalism: Hilarious
USC’s Annenberg School for Communications plans to award Katie Couric its highest honor, the Walter Cronkite Award, for Excellence in Television Journalism, next week. She will receive the award because of her interview with Governor Sarah Palin last year. You may all remember that Palin rose to prominence immediately after Senator John McCain announced she would be his running mate. Liberal media, politicians and journalists were frightened to death: here was a conservative politician who appealed to the masses. Was she able to bring Senator now President Barack Obama to his knees?
They weren’t willing to the risk, of course, so they decided to destroy her. Their smearcampaign was exceptionally effective. Her approval numbers dropped, at least among voters who counted (swing voters), and she wasn’t able to help McCain defeat Obama. The Republican ticket lost, the MSM was happy.
Although Palin certainly had her weaknesses, the media blew them out of proportion and presented her as some kind of dumb, religiously overly conservative wet dream. One of the journalists who helped create this negative image was Katie Couric.
Documentary filmmaker and Republican John Ziegler later made a documentary about how the media helped Obama win, and nearly destroyed Palin. One of those he considered most dishonest? Katie Couric. She, Ziegler shows in his film, distorted what Palin said, and she and her staff edited the interview in such a way that Palin would suffer most. It was a dishonest representation of the interview; cleverly done, but it had nothing to do with journalism.
Now she will receive this greatly respected award and that for the Palin-interview. As Ziegler explains, the USC Annenberg School for Communications should be ashamed of itself. It’s not awarding this prize to Couric because the Palin-interview was of such an incredible high quality, but because it ruined Palin’s and McCain’s chances of winning the presidential elections.
Pity. And so once again journalists prefer activism over actual journalism.
I never viewed Palin through America media, and I did not watch the offending interview. I simply looked at quotes by her and the inevitable fiskings offered by Andrew Sullivan, whose intellectual and conservative credentials stand up better than thos of most republicans or democrats. The thought of her getting out of Alaska scared my skin off.
I don’t approve of Couric’s sly editing at all. Palin needed to be repulsed, but fairly and in a way that an objective arbiter would approve of. Plus, Palin’s biggest enemy is herself. With all her lies and contradicting posturing, I can’t imagine an independent needing to watch her through a “liberal”, “MSM” filter in order to run screaming in the other direction. She doesn’t deserve to be a martyr.
Garland;
Thanks you. You’ve confirmed that Palin is STILL radio active.
Michael;
If you’re going to mention Palin please post pictures!!
“Thanks you. You’ve confirmed that Palin is STILL radio active.”
Yeah, it’s not the “lefty” in me who’s afraid of Sarah Palin, I’ll have you know. It’s the part of my brain that tells me that 8 times 8 is 64 that shows most of the antagonism.
lol sorry c3!
But Couric is also beautiful (IMO, more so).
I don’t think Katie and CBS staff edited it.. it’s just that Palin is dumb and no one can argue that Katie’s best ability is her interviewing skills.. that’s her ticket to success on the Today Show
This says a lot about USC and very little about Couric. She has done wonders for Colon Cancer awareness, but, her lack of talent as a News Anchor makes this award a joke. It is a further example of the lack of credibiliity we are getting from the elite media and education system. Katy was great as fluff on the morning talk shows but a waste in her current assignment. Look at her ratings!
What’s up with John Ziegler being detained on USC’s campus during the “Award” for, ahem.. “Journalistic Excellence” to Couric?
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/320303.html
Jon, if you don’t think they edited that interview, you don’t have the slightest clue what goes into producing news and interview programming. The question isn’t whether they edited the interview or not, the question is whether they edited it in a way that would cast Palin in a negative light. I haven’t seen the interview myself (although I have seen/heard clips from it), but from what I’ve seen from the media over the years, it would absolutely shock me if they DIDN’T do everything they could to make it as negative as possible for Palin. Inexplicably, they still have the power to shape a sizable portion of public opinion. They know that, and they have no qualms at all about using that power.
On what basis do you think Palin is “dumb”? I’ve asked that question of several liberals, and most of them point to the misquoted and brutally misattributed statement about Palin being able to “see Russia from [her] house.” Palin never said that. It was some dimwit on Fox News. [I like Fox News, but that was not one of their best moments.] It was then played up by Tina Fey when she did some of her many appearances on SNL as Palin, which then gave the appearance that Palin herself had said it.
Oh, and before you go ranting that I’m some Palin sycophant, let me stop you. I don’t trust her, nor virtually any politician, in the least. To say she’s “dumb”, however, tells me you lap up everything the liberal media want you to see and hear. Start looking into things for yourself instead of having your opinions spoon-fed into you by others.