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 — and by the way, just the facts without context, without examination, I don't think people really want that."
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Just like every other lefty.
You know Katie is spewing BS, when you can’t understand a damn thing she is saying!
That’s the sad truth.
Yep.
In other words, “We are just here to sell the rules beer and shampoo.”
And she should be treated as such.
She thinks she has the right to tell “noble lies”.
Usually they are not noble but they turn out to be lies.
Rules = rubes
The Leftist activist media sure is upset that people are demanding unbiased news.
She doesn’t even know what “BothSidesism” is!
BothSidesism is when a psychotic leftist is criticized for horrifically antisocial behavior, and an appointed communist media figure deflects and prevents accountability by saying that people on both sides of the political aisle misbehave, so why caterwaul only against psychotic leftists?
Nagging grandmother alert.
Lots of democrats only want the crap that makes them ‘feel good’... kinda like - ‘lieforem ism....’
“...help explain in some cases why people need to be aware and concerned about some of the things that are happening...”
Telling people what to think is so helpful.
Would it then be fair to say that Katie is unfair and unbalanced
Dis she also “masterfully edited” the interviews with Sarah Palin and Newt’s mother?
“Some people say...” Katie never tells us who those some people are
Bothsidesism is the left’s idiotic term for what used to be called “balance”.
Yep. Pseudo-intellectual twaddle by an overpaid newsreader. Big media ain’t dead, it just smells like it.
“We’ll tell you what to think”. Worse, they have an incestuous revolving door relationship with government bureaucracies, a round robin circle jerk off citing each other back and forth.
Propaganda and gaslighting in its purest form, they literally have it down to a science, with millions unable to think, much less think for themselves.
She’s giving the game away here. A reasonably well educated populace, well equipped to think critically is absolutely the last thing they want. Ignorant people are easy to manipulate. Combine that with fairy tale economics, offshoring jobs and inshoring armies of low wage illegal aliens and they can “fundamentally transform”. No matter how much you hate the “media” it cannot be enough.
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