Mad at Couric and CBS?

[npincus]

Donate. Give the Edwards campaign a couple of bucks or whatever you can afford or care to give.

CBS greenlighted Couric to stick the shiv in John and Elizabeth Edwards, to give her serious, hardhitting journalistic cred and pump up those dismal third-place nightly news ratings.

Don't tell me that part of CBS' agenda was not to suppress big donors by casting the campaign's future in a less-than-hopeful light. Whatever their agenda, to boost Couric's ratings or to harm the candidacy of the candidate they feel is the strongest against any GOP nominee, I say don't get mad. Give. The best man and woman CAN win, inspite of the efforts of CBS, Couric, and thier ilk.


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[WCGreen]

1. But then again, they didn't have to agree to go on the show....

Just saying...

[edwardsfeingold08]

2. By that logic

it is okay for any interviewer to attack anyone with a biased line of questioning. if someone agrees to go on a show, then it is okay to get attacked with the whole "some say questioning because they agreed to be on the show.

[SusanaMontana41]

5. I don't necessarily

disagree with biased questions per se as long as complete answers are allowed. Bill Clinton hit a few homers off Chris Wallace's biased questions, even when Wallace didn't "allow" them.

But I'm at work during "60 Minutes" broadcasts and didn't see the Couric-Edwards interview.

[edwardsfeingold08]

10. I'm fine with it

if the next time she's interviewing a republican canditate she asks a question using "some say" and inserts a Randi Rhodes talking point.

[SusanaMontana41]

13. That would be fair.

n/t

[WCGreen]

12. WE just have to remember that it is always an option to

not answer a question, or not go on the show in the first place...

And I agree, The Edwards did not deserve that kind of high school journalism....

[valerief]

6. Some say that, I hear, from what some say that some say. nt

[SusanaMontana41]

9. hehehe

:silly:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Did you read

Opus yesterday? It made a commentary that was quite on the mark............

[npincus]

7. No. Dave Sirota's blog was spot on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/et-tu-katie-couric_b_44256.html

In pursuing this line of repeated questioning, of course, Couric ignored the pretty well-known psychological value of work during health care crises. She also ignored the fact that this is an immensely personal decision that does not require some multimillion-dollar journalist to perform a televised, Gitmo-style interrogation in order for viewers at home to glean the "news value." And most incredibly, she ignored her own behavior when her spouse was diagnosed with cancer.

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I want to be extremely clear: That Couric continued to work while her husband was sick was entirely her and her family's personal decision. I'm not going to comment on the merits of that decision not because I think it was a bad one or a good one, but because it's AN ENTIRELY PERSONAL DECISION. Really, who the hell am I - and who the hell is anyone else - to question someone's decision to keep working during a family health crisis?

It's not up to me, or you or anyone else to decide whether such a decision for Katie Couric and her husband or John and Elizabeth Edwards is a good or bad decision, because it is an entirely personal decision, whether you are a national television anchor, a presidential candidate or anything else. I don't care if you are running for Supreme Leader of the Galaxy, your choice about whether to continue working at a time of a family health crisis should be entirely your own, without fear of journalists trying to "get a good scoop."

I wonder how Katie Couric would have reacted back in 1997 if people started interrogating her about why she was working during her husband's tragic illness? I'm guessing she wouldn't have reacted too kindly to it (which she shouldn't have - she would have every right to be pissed off). That's why I couldn't believe she of all people insisted on this line of interrogation. I was, frankly, amazed that the Edwardses didn't get up and walk out on the third or fourth question along these lines.

[MissMarple]

11. I literally laughed out loud at Opus, yesterday!

It was priceless.

[benny05]

4. I'm Kicking this up

Yes, they agreed to go on the show with Couric, but it was an abysmal interview. Another blogger on my blog summed up the segment in 5 sentences:

well, you might die
what if you really did die
some people die and it gets exploited
you know you might die from this....
well what if you really did get sicker

I don't understand why CBS would make Couric an anchor of a major MSM outlet. She's much better as a gossip columnist.

Taylor Marsh wrote a good analysis of this interview too.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=25334

[WinkyDink]

8. KC has never impressed me as having a scintillating intellect, IYKWIM.