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.

[pnh102]

Heh... the journalistic version of the Iron Cross.

[Hazwaste]

So Little Katie gets a pat on the back from an industry only slightly less incestuous than Hollywood and it’s supposed to mean something? Well whoop dee friggen do!

[fight_truth_decay]

Ah ...too pedestrian for Rather...Most likely the Nobel Prize or at least a Pulitzer.

[eCSMaster]

Did anybody see Ziegler’s documentary on the last campaign? I thought it was going to explain some of the editing techniques they used on the Couric-Palin interview.

I can’t justify $19.95 right now for the DVD.

[b4its2late]

Libturds rewarding a libturd. Nothing new.

[napscoordinator]

It was an overall unfair interview. Asking her what she reads off the cuff and what supreme court rulings she does not agree with is unfair the way asked. If she asked them in a less snotty type way it might have allowed Sarah to give an answer.

[a fool in paradise]

So Katie Colinic got the Cranky Cronkite Award. Figures.

[choctaw man]

A “news reader” wins this award...amazing!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Next time I have someone under oath I’ll go ahead and ask then “what do you read, list it all and I hope you won’t mind me going to the library and netflix to check your habits as has been done with Sarah Palin and Clarence Thomas”.

[TAdams8591]

I'm SO surprised. /sarc

BTW, it was the financial crisis not the Couric interview, that was the defining moment in the past presidential campaign. And McCain blew it.

[jeffc]

It’s appropriate; a liar wins a liar’s award. I’d be ashamed if I “won” an award like this. Who was the runner up, Brian Williams?

[a fool in paradise]

Libturds rewarding a libturd. Nothing new.

Obama won in 2008 - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

[Old Sarge]

Al-Qati Couric is hereby awarded:

Hero Of the
Obamanation

[napscoordinator]

lol.

[section9]

It was a hideously bad interview on Palin's part, and she shouldn't have done it. Palin, more than anyone else, understands that she screwed up and gave the impression that she wasn't ready for prime time.

Republicans need to only do live interviews. The Palin/Couric interview was emblematic of the galactic cluelessness of the McCain Campaign-their handling of Palin was atrocious, and it showed. Had she been able to communicate by talking to Rush, Hannity, and Fox first, that would have allowed her to get ready for far more partisan and hostile interviewers.

Republicans always have to assume that the Mainstream Press is in the Enemy Camp. McCain didn't. He trusted them. Now he's out on his ass.

Here's a prediction. Sarah Palin won't make that mistake.

Best,

Chris

[meyer]

Wow! I’m impressed. Perky Katie won the coveted “Fake but Accurate” award!

[Old Sarge]

Here's a prediction. Sarah Palin won't make that mistake run again for national office.

More to the point.

[Harold Shea]

I remember that very well too,still burns me to this day.

The Cronkite Award,big big barf

[SuziQ]

Couric’s work obviously paid off, because the 52-year-old today received the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for the exchange.

Considering Walter Crankcase's body of work, I wouldn't consider that much of an award.

[bravo whiskey]

how apprprpriate. 15 april is the day titanic sank.

[maggief]

McCain and that hack his team assigned to Palin deserve honorable mention.

[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.

Peter Kafka pointed to a report from Portfolio.com’s Jeff Bercovici who was told by Couric that she consulted with the Democrat opposition before ambushing Palin. Couric shed some light on her preparation for the interviews: Beforehand, she sought advice from former senator Sam Nunn and Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haas. They told her to draw Palin out on her geopolitical worldview and urged her to let the governor speak at length without interrupting her. Maybe she should bring them along with her when she takes over at Meet the Press?” Kafka notes that the origin of this quote has since been pulled and is no longer available online.-- DakotaVoice.

True, one should be able to handle an interview from the Perky one; but the 'set up was in" with help from the opposition...which was to sway an election away from Palin. Objective reporting from a much longer interview was amiss; and cut and paste took over for the intended mockery to humiliate.

Seems a women is always another woman's worst nightmare.

Plus we know the relationship between Obama and the Annenbergs. This award was just a thank you from the Obama folks.

Fraternities & Nazis:The Immorality of Humiliation

[fight_truth_decay]

...his hack team assigned

A hack team it definitely was..even after.

[TurtleUp]

Here's a prediction. Sarah Palin won't ... run again for national office.

I hope you're wrong. Palin is one of the few people I can think of who would run for the right reason. Her motivation seemed to be that she could do the job well and we need her. That's a whole lot better than Obama/Clinton who just want power, and it's a lot better than "I guess it's my turn" McCain, who didn't seem to want it.

[Cheetahcat]

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

Absolutely right that Dirtbag helped put 40,000 names on that wall.

[EyeGuy]

Keep wishing and hoping and your little dream might come true.

[euram]

I was so impressed with Couric getting this award, that I immediately donated another $250 to SarahPAC. So, you see, the award wasn’t all bad.

[fight_truth_decay]

Now we have a teleprompter addict in office courtesy of Axlerod? Press corps are left without interviews. Obama sure in H wouldn't debate Rush..a mere radio host. No one debates with Rush, for that matter face to face. I doubt Rush ever expected Obama to. Was just a saber rattling homie to homie call out! Would be different if Rush were a TV personality like Larry King or Barbara Walters or Katie Couric!

[ari-freedom]

the mistake was thinking that any VP candidate, that most Americans never heard of before, could be ready for national exposure in just a few days.

[ari-freedom]

my dream is to have a conservative elected to the WH.