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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Should reporters cover both sides by noting some people claim 1 + 1 = 2, and some people claim 1 + 1 ≠ 2?
The reality is that there are absolutes, including in politics. Responsible journalists need to identify those absolutes in their reports. This severely impacts the Enemedia reporters, who absolutely claim there are no absolutes.
“,,,some say.”
THE IQ OF THE LIZARD UNDER MY DECK IS HIGHER THAN KATIE”S IQ.
UNBALANCED LEADS TO UNFAIR
Her teeth look like elephant toenails.
That’s all I got. I pay her no mind.
I could see a Twilight Zone episode where she is on trial for murder of her husband due to feeding him a poor diet. Only the prosecution gets to present a case. She is dragged to the gas chamber crying “I am not guilty, this is unfair”, at the end.
In her view, you can’t hear both sides. In addition, the prosecution destroys evidence it doesn’t like. That describes the Jan 6th committee.
Katie Couric had very questionable contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, including dinner at his house and plane flights after his 2009 conviction.
She is a bad journalist but an even worse person. No two sides to that, for sure.
Yup—it is very frustrating when a journalist story launches into all sorts of opinion while failing to identify even the most basic facts of who, what, where, when.
Bonus: When the story does attempt to give those basic facts it often misspells names, mislocates places, gets times and dates wrong etc etc etc.
America’s former “niece” is still pumping oxygen? I didn’t know that.
We would have been better off as a nation if perky katie stayed home and raised a family instead.
If you are a liar, why would you want to take a chance on the truth getting out?
Typical arrogant journalist. Probably can’t add a column of numbers with a pencil.
She is a DEI hire, been told for years that she is better.
What a backwards spoiled child she is.
The bloods in the water. The lamestream media and press who have built them selves up as the arbiters of truth have because of there own lapses in morals and character have painted huge targets on their backs. Look at the 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation, the suits against the view and many many others. The Harris interview cost the lame stream media plenty and now they do it again!?!?!?!?!?
I will say it again.
We need the FCC to enforce truth and accuracy in reporting, edit as you wish but that editing must be noted and the full text, full video must be available for review. With the internet and cloud storage this is no longer a undo burden and is needed now to stop the wholesale fabrication of news and events.
Corrections or miss statements MUST be given the same amount of play as the WRONG or INCORRECT statements or videos when broadcast the first time, be it 10 minutes, 20 minutes 30 minutes if the media source trumped it MUST be one to one.
If they the media did a 1 hour broadcast that was wrong, incorrect or lies then they must do a second broadcast of 1 hour at the same time slot explaining that they were wrong, incorrect or had lied.
A large banner should be run at the bottom of any video STATING that the SOURCE is unnamed, unverified, if an audio broadcast the statement should be made at the start, at the middle and at the end.
The news media pundits will gnash their collective teeth moaning and groaning and will say this will place a chilling restrain on the freedom of the press. It will not. It will stop them from running head long in to judgment that has elevated numinous numbers of fake stories, staged a hate crimes and out right character assignations accusations that have ruined many innocent lives. They will be forced to fact check diligently because they will be held monetarily and criminally libel for miss-reporting the facts.
Truth in reporting will offer up a shield to the small groups, to individuals, people who have had their lives, liberty's, property, impacted by incorrect reporting without due process of law. Words and actions have consequences.
If any of this is not done then the FCC should fine and or remove and or suspend broadcast licenses. Keep pushing wrong, incorrect or lies in news stories and have your broadcast rights removed.
We have truth in advertising laws, why no accuracy in reporting laws? There has always been yellow journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. But with the advent of the internet there is almost no ability to get out in front of even boldfaced lies that are pushed today over and over.
There should be no editing or exerting with out posting the entire text or video or audio on line and if there is no confirmation and the source in unknown or not named. That should be flashed at the beginning and end of that report. If a photo is cropped the original should be also available for review.
For to long the public has been denied the full information, the full story and unfortunately as it has been shown time and time again. The news media's take on events can no longer be taken at face value because of paid, yes paid partisan behavior and down right bias.
The news media once would state the facts with no taint of partisanship and now all we get is paid partisanship and fascist like bias. News media sources have become extended commercials of talking heads spewing single twisted points of view shouting down all others in a head long rush to try and brain wash the masses.
All you have to do is listen and you will see that they (The news conglomerates, the multi national media empires) no longer are in it for the truth but have become corrupt with power, influence and money.
The BBC caught centering the President of the United States!!
It's time to rein them in. If this is not done and done soon the blood in the water will not be a metaphor anymore but a reality. Call someone a radical, a racist, say they are supremacists and other vile erroneous lies you will eventually breed the same thing you rant about. And whoa on to you, when that comes home to roost, heads will not just turn, tongues will not just wag. A real and deadly reckoning will take place and there will be blood.
The bbc has committed the last offense it will ever do, bbc news feeds to the US should be regulated to the point they can not say a word post a video or news story unless the US government has vetted it as factual and true.
That a foreign news company would edit the statement of the leader of a sovereign country in a directly planed and executed effort to interfere with the internal working there of is tantamount to terrorism via propaganda and could be construed to be an act of war.
I will applaud when President Trump sues the bbc and it's owners in to bankruptcy.
LOL, finally! They have finally admitted that they have NO interest in reporting ‘news’.
Stinking slimy communist-supporting bitch needs to be locked up in a nut house...
Yup—this is the “good news” about 2025.
A lot of masks are starting to be taken off—and we get to see who people really are—for better or worse.
I think most of the public at least wants the truth of the news not regarding the viewpoint of the person it may be coming from. Of course one must understand that there will normally be different viewpoints expressed,but we expect to know if this is JUST a viewpoint.
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