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Was Katie Couric awarded for a biased report?

  • 18-04-2009 11:04am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭


    Accuracy in Media has an article about Katie Couric receiving a Walter Conkrite award for her infamous interview with Sarah Palin last year.

    A journalist who wanted to ask why Couric got an award for a slanted and biased interview was "arrested and manhandled" until he was out of the area.

    I'm supposed to be writing essays at the moment, so I can't go and watch the interview on youtube to refresh my memory, but I will. From what I remember it was't slanted or biased.

    Mind you, I would've been too busy laughing at it to have noticed.

    The journalist who was arrested, John Ziegler, has recently released a documentary called "Media Malpractice" and apparently the Couric-Palin interview played a central role in it.

    Possible publicity stunt?

    Read the article here and let me know what you think.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I would wonder why you should give an award out to someone for a very stilted and uninteresting interview. It only showed Palin up, which was a big fat fake.

    IMO Interviewers should take the opposite side of their interviewee on a one and one interview, to allow for balance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭ManoCornuta


    How was it "fake"?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    I don't remember it being bias - Palin's team claimed it was 'gotcha' journalism but there was nothing like that involved.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭ManoCornuta


    Well for anyone who's looking for it, here's the interview

    Couric didn't ask any unreasonable questions, she just made good tv by latching on to areas she knew Palin wouldn't be eloquent in and continued with those lines of questioning, e.g. when Palin became flustered when asked about her comment on the narrow border between Alaska and Russia being part of her foreign policty experience and followed it up with two further questions on this topic. I don't think this is unreasonable when interviewing a potential vice-president.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Well for anyone who's looking for it, here's the interview

    Couric didn't ask any unreasonable questions, she just made good tv by latching on to areas she knew Palin wouldn't be eloquent in and continued with those lines of questioning, e.g. when Palin became flustered when asked about her comment on the narrow border between Alaska and Russia being part of her foreign policty experience and followed it up with two further questions on this topic. I don't think this is unreasonable when interviewing a potential vice-president.

    I have to agree Palin got flustered and she didn't come across well. Her answers to the economy where fairly standard Politican fair i.e. Home owner's were brought down a very risky road by Mortgage lenders and the Mortgage lenders have a lot to answer for and the government should be willing to help those home owner most in need.

    She did try to say that home owners that took major risks and knew should not be helped, but she kind of back tracked on that point.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 798 ✭✭✭bobbyjoe


    That was one of the first major interviews with Palin at a time that most people didn't know who she was. Couric asked simple questions and showed Palin out to be the fool he is. Impact wise it was huge, as for being a brilliant interview not so much.


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