Comments on: Ziegler: USC, Cronkite should be embarrassed

By: The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:20:06 +0000

I attended my daughter’s graduation from Annenberg School last May.

Believe it or not, Katie Couric is a big step up from last year’s honoree: Arianna Huffington, who told the class that they should not let the truth get in the way of “the right story.” Even my then-fairly-liberal daughter thought her advice was over the line for a commencement speech at a Journalism school.

My daughter is a little less liberal now, as the collapse of the broadcast news media market resulted in very few offers to members of her class…in fact at least one of the few who did get jobs has already been laid off.

The failure to perceive the needs of the marketplace, due in part to liberal bias in journalism faculties, is hurting journalism students. They are being led in directions that are inconsistent with traditional standards, and are economically suicidal.

My daughter, btw, has just found work, after 10 months, not in the traditional broadcast MSM, but with a hybrid cable channel/website, that focuses on the movie business.

By: byteshredder

byteshredder — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:12:47 +0000

Ziegler: USC, Cronkite should be embarrassed

Katie Couric was a POS yesterday; a POS today, and will be a POS tomorrow. Simply, a POS for all time!

By: AnninCA

AnninCA — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:23:12 +0000

Katie Couric has absolutely business receiving an award for that interview, but then that particular school of communications is known for being a sham.

By: BobAnthony

BobAnthony — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:32:56 +0000

Cronkite did with Viet Nam what the MSM did with the Iraq war. Only EVERYONE watched Conkrite back then.

marklmail on April 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM

What choices were there back then? Even in NYC it was 2, 4, 7 (3, 8, 20 and 30 in CT) for network bias or 5, 9, 11 for other things on INDEPENDENT stations(Hartford’s 18 even tried subscription TV with Charles Osgood as station manager. CT would have to get indies from NYC or Boston via the antenna.)…no Fox, CW, MyNetwork…Hell no cable for the most part.

Oh, and there was 13, 21, 25, 31 (CPTV had just started back then for CT) for those who…well I won’t say and of course the UHF channels, which didn’t have the WOW factor of say markets like Philly, Chicago and Boston back in the days or so I hear.

Walter Crankenhouse YOU SIR ARE AN EMBARASSMENT TO MEDIA EVERYWHERE! SAME GOES FOR YOU KATIE COLONIC!

By: ThereGoesTheNeighborhood

ThereGoesTheNeighborhood — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:17:04 +0000

P.S. a little off point: The spell check on my computer still tries to correct the president’s name. For Obama it wants to substitute “Abeam” and for his first name it wants to substitute “barrack”. Since he is the most important person who has ever existed, shouldn’t Apple have fixed this by now? Tommy_G on April 9, 2009 at 3:51 PM

Well, you could wait until Apple fixes it, or you could just add the words to your dictionary yourself. Which would be the action of a self-reliant conservative? /kidding. Well, there is an actual point in the above, but not one worth taking offense.

By: kayo

kayo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:55:40 +0000

Lemme get this straight; a university, located in California, gives an award, named after a retired liberal newsreader, to an active liberal newsreader?

Stop the presses!!!

By: omnipotent

omnipotent — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:20:48 +0000

Due to his old age.

By: omnipotent

omnipotent — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:53:39 +0000

Death should greet Walter and that right soon.

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:35:34 +0000

I beg to differ. Walter Cronkite was the consumate socialist who worked behind the scenes to make America weaker during the Viet Nam War. If I can find it I'll post the link to an article where a well respected general wrote of how surprised he was to see Cronkite spreading disinformation about the war when America has the enemy against the wall. More on Cronkite's anti-American efforts. More of the same. Katie Couric deserves the Walter Cronkite Award. This is why. Crap deserves crap.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:50:39 +0000

As they say, one hand washes the other.

GarandFan on April 9, 2009 at 7:37 PM

That’s not the body part that first comes to mind in this instance.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:49:59 +0000

Curic’s ascension means there is still hope for Geraldo.

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:37:09 +0000

As they say, one hand washes the other.

By: threedonia.com » Couric makes the most of Palin fallout

threedonia.com » Couric makes the most of Palin fallout — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:23:54 +0000

[...] Documentarian John Ziegler isn’t happy. Of course, there is no disputing the fact that the perception created by Couric’s interview and the ensuing media and entertainment coverage of it clearly had an enormous impact on the 2008 presidential election. But is this the kind of “achievement” that journalism is supposed to be honoring? (If it is, shouldn’t the award really go to Tina Fey?) And is there any doubt that if Couric asked Palin the exact same questions and she had been viewed as performing well (or if one of her softball interviews with Barack Obama had brought down his candidacy) that there would be no awards for her from USC or anyone else of note? [...]

By: Dire Straits

Dire Straits — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:34:29 +0000

Damn.. I was pulling for Bill Maher with Jon Stewart being a close second.

By: SKYFOX

SKYFOX — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:23:25 +0000

she saved of from the possibility of a palin presidency. she deserves any award.

sesquipedalian on April 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Are you drunk?

P.S. Palin wasn’t running for president.

capitalist piglet

Sometimes I see people act like clowns and say the goofiest stuff and I think they are drunk, but in fact they’re just stupid.

By: regmgr

regmgr — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:48:07 +0000

Couric will continue to be at the bottom for all the nightly nothing news.

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:44:06 +0000

I have nothing but disdain for both Mr. Cronkite and MS. Couric.

So I find the award entirely fitting.

By: herrevery

herrevery — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:42:29 +0000

Cronkite did with Viet Nam what the MSM did with the Iraq war. Only EVERYONE watched Conkrite back then.

marklmail on April 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM

My mom stopped watching him during Vietnam.

By: reshas1

reshas1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:38:46 +0000

http://www.annenberg.usc.edu/Directory.aspx

Do something about it, email USC

By: chautauqua

chautauqua — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:35:50 +0000

Sadly – and yes, I’m becoming remarkably cynical and dark in thought, as I age, to even think this – Katie will no doubt cherish the memory of this award, during her dying days, when she looks back on all the ‘good and amazing things she accomplished’.
*sigh*

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:22:48 +0000

*Palin. I’ve gotta get that typing gaffe corrected.

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:22:36 +0000

Anyone know who is up for the Bill O’Reilly Golden Loofah award?

crapitulus on April 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM

Gee, I wasn’t aware that O’Reilly was a nightly news anchor on an over-the-air network that had 15 times as many viewers as Faux News.

Can I have some of your tequila?

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:21:53 +0000

If anything the interview was valuable because she was so patient, respectful and soft on Palin that any claims of media “bias” from the right in regards to the interview seemed ludicrous (of course they did still try to make these claims). Palin had no one to blame but herself for her poor performance.

crr6 on April 9, 2009 at 3:59 PM

Yeah, she could have ripped right into Plain like she did Biden after his magnificent string of gaffes. Oh wait, Couric didn’t realize they were gaffes…therefore didn’t rip into him…

By: Richard Romano

Richard Romano — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:20:09 +0000

she saved of from the possibility of a palin presidency. she deserves any award.

sesquipedalian on April 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Yep, and a Biden presidency is all the more palatable? Psst, moronic-pedalian, did you miss your psychiatric appointment today?

By: Mallard T. Drake

Mallard T. Drake — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:19:23 +0000

If Couric gets a pass…

Hey c’mon, lighten up. She’s a girl after all working in a man’s world. (The soft sexism of low expectations.)