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Katie Couric rejects 'bothsidesism' in news coverage, says people don't want 'just the facts'
Fox News ^ | 12/26/2025 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 12/26/2025 6:23:21 AM PST by simpson96

Katie Couric spoke out against "bothsidesism" in news coverage and insisted people don't want "just the facts" in the current media environment.

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"So what I try to do and what we try to do is help people stay abreast of everything that's happening, which is increasingly difficult given the velocity of things that are thrown at us primarily by this administration," Couric told host Dylan Byers. "But try to understand and give them some perspective and context and help explain in some cases why people need to be aware and concerned about some of the things that are happening in this country."

"And I think I feel more comfortable in speaking out about things than I ever would have, obviously, on 'The Today Show.' I think that it was a different time... but I think if I were on 'The Today Show' now, I would feel muzzled, and I think that I would feel frustrated that we couldn't really talk about the stuff that was happening and in a deep way."

The veteran TV host went on to say that she feels "upset" by what's going on in the country, telling Byers her job is to "help people understand why this is not normal."

"I guess that puts me squarely on one side of the media divide, but I'm ok with that," Couric said. "Cause I want my grandkids to say, 'Yeah, she did that morning show, and she did an evening newscast, but like when the rubber was really hitting the road, she made sure that people understood what that meant and what was going on.

"And I think the era of kind of bothsidesism or just the facts โ€” and by the way, just the facts without context, without examination, I don't think people really want that."

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KEYWORDS: activist; imitationjournalist; katiecouric; marxistsubversive; officialdemnarrative; operationmockingbird; professionalliar; propagandist; rejectsmostfacts

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"Katie Couric Rejects Journalism"

"Katie Couric Champions Propaganda"

There, fixed it twice.

1 posted on 12/26/2025 6:23:21 AM PST by simpson96
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I think she’s saying is that the Legacy Media is not hating Trump sufficiently, and that she wants to be in a position to hate Trump and to lie to the public absolutely as much as humanly possible, with no restrictions or qualms about truth or legality.


2 posted on 12/26/2025 6:25:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: simpson96

Katie is arrogant. She thinks she is smarter than everyone else.


3 posted on 12/26/2025 6:25:59 AM PST by alternatives?
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Well I certainly don’t want her side. Her colon was more than enough so many years ago.


4 posted on 12/26/2025 6:26:06 AM PST by xp38
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To: simpson96

Katie Couric Admits They Lie................


5 posted on 12/26/2025 6:26:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine โ€“ August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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She is right. My liberal friends donโ€™t care how many crimes are committed by illegal aliens.


6 posted on 12/26/2025 6:26:25 AM PST by nwrep
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To: simpson96

Maybe Katie is smoking stuff again.


7 posted on 12/26/2025 6:26:34 AM PST by chopperk
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“says people don’t want ‘just the facts’”

Don’t you just love it when the liberals think they know what all Americans want?

They really do live in an alternate reality......and a warped and twisted one at that.


8 posted on 12/26/2025 6:27:01 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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her people don't want 'just the facts'

Like all libtards, she projects her views on to the general public.

9 posted on 12/26/2025 6:29:44 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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We long for your world view katie. Not your colonoscopy. You’re so learned. NOT! Sod off assclown!


10 posted on 12/26/2025 6:30:31 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ™! Winning currently!)
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Katie is arrogant. She thinks she is smarter than everyone else.

And as long as we're willing to pay her with our TV subscriptions to push her left wing propaganda, she's right.

11 posted on 12/26/2025 6:32:18 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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Katie Couric Admits They Lie...

Katie Couric herself got caught editing video in her 2016 Propaganda Piece "Under the Gun" to make 2nd Amendment advocates look ignorant. Her targets released their own audio recording of the interview to prove she had the video edited.

She's a filthy snake.

https://www.factualamerica.com/byline-blunders/katie-couric-the-deceptive-edit-that-tarnished-her-reputation

12 posted on 12/26/2025 6:33:43 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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the highlight of Katie Couric’s career was when she had a camera up her rectum. That was hardly journalism. Journalists don’t report on their own health.


13 posted on 12/26/2025 6:38:01 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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She is a traitor, bought and for which paid.


14 posted on 12/26/2025 6:38:02 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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1993 Dateline NBC - Katie Couric hosted an episode that suggested GM trucks were prone to catch fire... To prove this point Dateline ‘staged’ collisions that showed GM trucks exploding upon impact. Fake news didn’t start yesterday... Katie knows that because she’s been faking it from the start.


15 posted on 12/26/2025 6:38:28 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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“and by the way, just the facts without context, without examination, I don’t think people really want that.” Just the facts Katie.


16 posted on 12/26/2025 6:39:32 AM PST by kawhill (And the sea will bring each man new hope as sleep brings dreams of home. C.C.)
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Do you ever wonder how these people would react if the media was primarily conservative, pro-America and Christian?

And that pro-conservatives in media bragged about it?

Couric isn’t a champion of the truth or the little guy. Her banner is the Left in the front, Communism in the back.


17 posted on 12/26/2025 6:39:35 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: simpson96

Many moons ago I once had a newspaper’s editor tell me that his paper published pablum because its readers were idiots.

This attitude that the enemedia knows best is prevalent and has been for a very ongoing time.

And not just in major markets.


18 posted on 12/26/2025 6:40:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ )
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Baked bean teeth speaks ,LOL


19 posted on 12/26/2025 6:41:41 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Worst part is she believes this. This is why the rodents can never ever be in charge of our life again.


20 posted on 12/26/2025 6:43:00 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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