Couric Wins Walter Cronkite Award

Topics: Katie Couric

(CBS)

Evening News anchor Katie Couric was honored for her "extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin" which judges called a "defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign."

She was given the award for Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.

The award was given by Reliable Resources, a group run out of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. It's mission statement says "Reliable Resources was created to help generate conversation and ideas on improving broadcast political coverage. Broadcast news, network and local, has declined significantly as a primary source for campaign news. Our project seeks to design and distribute tools which would make political news enlightening, informative and exciting to local and network broadcasters."

"These Cronkite Award winners prove that thoughtful, informative political coverage can also make for gripping television," said USC Annenberg professor Martin Kaplan, director of the School's Norman Lear Center, which has administered the biennial awards honoring the distinguished broadcast journalist and longtime CBS anchor Walter Cronkite since 2000.

Here's a complete run of Couric's video with Palin.

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by olw3olw3 April 25, 2009 10:37 PM EDT: John Ziegler's film "MEDIA MALPRACTICE - How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted" was shown today at the Newport Beach film festival. Couric's condescending attitude toward Palin was there for all to see. Either hers or CBS's editing of the interview shows such a biased opiniated slant against Palin that it makes the Cronkite award a sham. USC ought to be ashamed!!; Reply to this comment


by Majicke April 17, 2009 2:34 PM EDT: RE: TexanforPalin's post:
Feel free to check out the way journalist John Ziegler was treated-arrested-for attempting to cover Couric's award ceremony at USC-it looks like a skit from SNL-but it's real!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYY0ARSF1XM; Reply to this comment


by -----mike----- April 17, 2009 12:44 PM EDT: Much like the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE when it was awarded to ARAFAT in 1994, and GORE in 2007, The CRONKITE award is now meaningless. There are no journalists in the media, only ideologues, and spreaders of hate. Lack of honest , non-bias reporting of April 15th Tax Day Tea Parties proves my statement. Those who oppose the new administration in the name of the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence are who cuoric and the like despise, FEAR, and will go to any lengths to demonize and discredit. It is a defense mechanism for the far left haters. GOOD LUCK in your ratings, and your future endeavors, and enjoy the paperweight.; Reply to this comment


by dewriter88 April 13, 2009 11:40 AM EDT: If I was Walter Cronkite I would be offended...; Reply to this comment


by georgia46 April 13, 2009 10:19 AM EDT: I am very insulted that CBS news (Katie Couric) cannot conduct a fair and informed interview. Most of us are adults and can decide what is best for ourselves. I think at 65 I can make my own mind up on issues. I just ask that the news media give ALL the facts on ALL the candidates and let me make up my own mind. Why did Katie not go after Obama with the same voracity on issues such as Reverend Wright. I think she has failed miserably as an unbiased interviewer. I no longer listen to her evening news because I cannot trust her to give me unbiased facts on ALL news events.; Reply to this comment


by hussyinterrupted April 11, 2009 12:12 AM EDT: I admit that Couric's interview of Palin was the interview that ultimately threw the election Obama's way for certain, but seriously, an award for outstanding journalism?? How desperate is someone to get this award off their desk?!?!

Palin blew that interview on her own. It had nothing to do with Katie Couric. I never realized "Could you be more specific" and "What magazines do you read" are considered tough questions now. With standards like that, any moron off the street could win a Kronkite award.; Reply to this comment


by JoeNiemczura March 15, 2009 4:31 PM EDT: Hooray for Katie!

Just the idea that Sarah Palin might have been elected, seems like a bad dream - were we really that close to making such a disaster? I think the intervening events have made it very obvious. In 2010, we will continue to sweep the lying hypocites from national office.

Katie was eminently fair, and eminently courageous. All of you who are disrepcting her, need ot go back to the ionterviews and listen to them.; Reply to this comment


by opedanderson March 15, 2009 9:26 AM EDT: I agree that Couric asked fair questions of Palin and that the Alaska Gov. was not able to answer them. But she did NOT do the same re. Obama and his mysterious background and associations.

I know the Koolaid drinkers out there are incensed to read this, but the truth is the truth.; Reply to this comment


by Lancia10000 March 14, 2009 4:27 PM EDT: This is HYSTERICAL... either the Walter Cronkite Award is a sham (I'm sure it is), or worse YET....Katie Couric is considered the top of her field....
Of course look at the reason she was given the award ! She was given the award for "Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign". The MOST telling is that she would NEVER gotten this IF OBAMA didn't win which would mean..OMG McCain WON! Ha, Ha, Ha thanks for the laugh....; Reply to this comment