Couric Wins Cronkite Award for Palin Interview (for “defining moment in the '08 campaign.”)

wowOwow.com ^ | 03/10/2009 5:45 pm | By The Staff

[fight_truth_decay]

Remember when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused journalist Katie Couric of "exploiting" their disastrous exchange — the one in which Palin couldn’t name some of running mate John McCain’s policies? Couric’s work obviously paid off, because the 52-year-old today received the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for the exchange. The Baltimore Sun elaborates:

"Couric, who weathered one of network TV’s most criticized anchor-desk launches when she took over from interim anchor Bob Schieffer, was named winner of the University of Southern California’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in TV Political Journalism for her focused and illuminating interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The award is given by the Lear Center in the School of Journalism.

"And then, Couric and CBS News withstood a withering attack from the right — angered by seeing their candidate so exposed."

No word on whether Palin plans on sending her congratulations, although we’re not holding our breath.

[fight_truth_decay]

The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism named ABC News’ “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” and “Now on PBS” as the national winners of its 2009 Walter Cronkite Awards and gave a special citation to CBS’ Kate Couric for national impact on the 2008 campaign-TVWeek

The panel of eight judges was chaired by Geneva Overholser, director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. Entries were screened by 22 Annenberg faculty and alumni with experience in broadcast journalism.

The awards will be presented on the USC campus in Los Angeles on April 15.

[Doctor Raoul]

Just like Cronkite’s Tet offensive anaylsis. Wrong and it hurt this country.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Where does one even start? Why not give her the Walter Duranty award for lying to promote communism?

[MrB]

The editors deserve all the credit,

for slicing and dicing the interview to make Palin look bad.

[Petronski]

Krankheit (pronounced cronkite) is a German word meaning sickness.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yyyyyyyyep!

[yarddog]

She probably deserves the Goebbels award or maybe the Stalin award.

[ArrogantBustard]

the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award

Wow ... one liar gets an award named in dishonour of another liar.

I'm just sooooooo unimpressed.

[Slapshot68]

I thought Katie would win the “Female Journalist Who Most Resembles the Joker” too.

[ari-freedom]

it was unfair but if you can’t handle Katie Couric then you probably won’t be able to handle Putin or Achmedinijad.

[Sir Gawain]

Did it come with a free Arafat scarf?

[ArrogantBustard]

Cronkite wasn't just wrong on Tet.

The first couple of days, he might have been merely "wrong".

After that, he was lying: deliberately, willfully, and with malice aforethought.

[sourcery]

When your enemy insists on (and glories in) shooting himself in the foot (and damaging his credibility and reputation,) let him!

[w1andsodidwe]

Is that the award Rather was trying for with his National Guard documents?

[mikelets456]

Yeah Couric, your for woman’s rights,right?
Same with NOW...they are for woman’s rights as well? Just wanted to be clear on that....

[fight_truth_decay]

I am sure comments are welcome on the TVWeek site [I have been known to add my 2-cents] or the wowOwow site. But then you might rain on the Couric ticker tape parade!

[Dallas59]

Not her again. Why can’t she just stay at home?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I love to present Katie the Darwin Award . . .

[al baby]

That would be Lauren Sanchez from So. California

[surfer]

I truly hope that conservatives remember these days...and hopefully when we take back our country we will have zero tolerance and no quarter for these liberal scum that are trying to destroy the earth.

Remember they are the ones that are intolerant and have tried to force feed this agenda down our throats...we need to jump on the righteous wind and put down this scourge on humanity.