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Couric Wins Cronkite Award for Palin Interview (for “defining moment in the '08 campaign.”)
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| 03/10/2009 5:45 pm
| By The Staff
Posted on 03/11/2009 1:28:55 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Remember when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused journalist Katie Couric of "exploiting" their disastrous exchange the one in which Palin couldnt name some of running mate John McCains policies? Courics 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 TVs most criticized anchor-desk launches when she took over from interim anchor Bob Schieffer, was named winner of the University of Southern Californias 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 were not holding our breath.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; annenberg; couric; cronkiteaward; death2america; death2americacouric; dnctalkingpoints; katiedeath2america; katietheclown; mediabias; nicollewallace; palin; pravdamedia; ratherbiased; seebsnews
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The University of Southern Californias 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-TVWeekThe 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.
To: fight_truth_decay
Just like Cronkite’s Tet offensive anaylsis. Wrong and it hurt this country.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:29:49 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(New Obama Mantra, "Screw World Peace, I'll Buy You A Pony.")
To: fight_truth_decay
Where does one even start? Why not give her the Walter Duranty award for lying to promote communism?
To: fight_truth_decay
The editors deserve all the credit,
for slicing and dicing the interview to make Palin look bad.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:30:15 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: fight_truth_decay
Krankheit (pronounced cronkite) is a German word meaning sickness.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:31:09 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: MrB
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:31:27 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama dozed.....people froze.)
To: fight_truth_decay
She probably deserves the Goebbels award or maybe the Stalin award.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:32:05 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: fight_truth_decay
the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award Wow ... one liar gets an award named in dishonour of another liar.
I'm just sooooooo unimpressed.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:33:02 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: fight_truth_decay
I thought Katie would win the “Female Journalist Who Most Resembles the Joker” too.
To: fight_truth_decay
it was unfair but if you can’t handle Katie Couric then you probably won’t be able to handle Putin or Achmedinijad.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:34:06 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Hail to the Dork!)
To: fight_truth_decay
Did it come with a free Arafat scarf?
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:34:14 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect")
To: Doctor Raoul
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.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:34:33 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: fight_truth_decay
When your enemy insists on (and glories in) shooting himself in the foot (and damaging his credibility and reputation,) let him!
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:34:52 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Obama Lied. The Economy Died!)
To: fight_truth_decay
Is that the award Rather was trying for with his National Guard documents?
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:35:43 PM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: fight_truth_decay
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....
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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!
To: fight_truth_decay
Not her again. Why can’t she just stay at home?
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:36:45 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: fight_truth_decay
I love to present Katie the Darwin Award . . .
To: Slapshot68
That would be Lauren Sanchez from So. California
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:38:09 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: fight_truth_decay
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.
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posted on
03/11/2009 1:38:10 PM PDT
by
surfer
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