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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"Katie Couric Champions Propaganda"
There, fixed it twice.
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.
Katie is arrogant. She thinks she is smarter than everyone else.
Well I certainly don’t want her side. Her colon was more than enough so many years ago.
Katie Couric Admits They Lie................
She is right. My liberal friends donโt care how many crimes are committed by illegal aliens.
Maybe Katie is smoking stuff again.
“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.
Like all libtards, she projects her views on to the general public.
We long for your world view katie. Not your colonoscopy. You’re so learned. NOT! Sod off assclown!
And as long as we're willing to pay her with our TV subscriptions to push her left wing propaganda, she's right.
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
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.
She is a traitor, bought and for which paid.
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.
“and by the way, just the facts without context, without examination, I don’t think people really want that.” Just the facts Katie.
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.
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.
Baked bean teeth speaks ,LOL
Worst part is she believes this. This is why the rodents can never ever be in charge of our life again.
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