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March 10, 2009 3:21 PM

Couric Wins Walter Cronkite Award

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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!!
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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
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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.
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by dewriter88 April 13, 2009 11:40 AM EDT
If I was Walter Cronkite I would be offended...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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by lynn010 March 12, 2009 3:38 PM EDT
Go Katieeee! You're an amazing journalist and congratulations on your honor.
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by RoyPincus March 12, 2009 1:05 PM EDT
one-american, I'll leave the rush to judgment to people like you. And watching the Obama stock market soar over the last few days, I feel pretty good. I mean didn't all the fine right-wing commentators lay last week's stock market losses on Obama's doorstep? I'm just following their logic.
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by whowon March 12, 2009 7:38 AM EDT
An award for that terrible interview? I haven't watched CBS or Katie Couric since.
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by Alaskan2 March 12, 2009 2:53 AM EDT
How, exactly, was Ms. Couric unfair to Palin or dishonest? I realize this may be a shock to you since you haven't had the opportunity to get to know Palin as we Alaskans have, but Palin really isn't that bright and is none of the things she claimed to be on the campaign trail except a pit bull with lipstick, and that's not a good thing.
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by Alaskan2 March 12, 2009 2:47 AM EDT
I became a fan of Ms. Couric's during the Palin interviews. She was extremely courteous to Ms. Palin and gave her every opportunity to say something intelligent and show us how she would make a good vice president. Ms. Couric is not to blame for Palin's lack of basic knowledge and inability to answer questions she should have anticipated. If anything, Couric could be criticized for not asking Palin any hard questions, but given the responses to the questions she did pose, what would have been the point? I say she was just being a class act by not allowing her guest to humiliate herself any further.
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by MiniTruth March 11, 2009 4:27 PM EDT
This is a horrible joke. It's so funny that I forgot to laugh.
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by TexanforPalin March 11, 2009 2:15 PM EDT
The fact that Katie Couric was given this award is a sad example of the state of the news media today. Sorry, but Ms. Couric is a poor choice for the Walter Cronkite award. Mr. Cronkite was a fair and honest member of the news media, Ms. Couric is not.
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by ____One_American___ March 11, 2009 1:36 PM EDT
A hard-hitting journalism question Katie might have asked Obama is:

"Do you have a legal copy of your birth certificate, and are you in fact a native-born American?"

or

"Your father was a Marxist. Do you have similar tendencies to be pro-Marxist, Communist, or Socialist?"

But of course, Katie avoids asking any potentially embarassing questions to Democrats.
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by thebob-bob March 11, 2009 12:16 PM EDT
A prime example of 'hard hitting journalism'. The award winning question: Governor Palin, what newspapers do you read?
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by ken1dall March 11, 2009 12:04 PM EDT
Kind of a mutual admiration society isn't it?
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by satokinea March 11, 2009 11:20 AM EDT
I thought she was fired.

Doesn't she remind you of Carrot Top? Squint a tiny bit and you'll see the resemblance.
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