Revealing, when they were edited to make Sarah Palin look bad? There was nothing fair or unbiased about her interviews with Governor Palin. If anything, Katie Couric should be rebuked for biased and nonobjective journalism.

Hi Fay, there was very little editing in the first one, because it was rushed to air. I wrote about the network editing, and, believe me, it is a happy myth for folks on the right that Palin looked so bad because she was edited. It just is not true. Thanksk. Z

Good job Katie! I am so glad you exposed the real Sarah Palin to America before it was too late. Get ready, though, Fay is from Team Sarah and they will all be here soon to defend Sarah and bash Katie. By the way, I read the New York Times.
Alex

Thanks, Alex -- even if you do read the Times (kidding). Z

can you imagine if couric gave such a condescending interview to barrack obama. she would have been fired and labeled as a racist.

palin 2012

Hi, I do not think Couric was condescending. She was totally professional. It is hard not to look surprised when a candidate for vice president can't tell you what the duties of the vice president are. My favorite Palin answer was that she would "have to get back" to Katie on that one. Maybe in Alaska, Governor. Z

WATCH MEDIA MALPRACTICE they debunk this interview.

Hi, actually, only true believers in the failed Sarah Palin candidacy would think it "debunks" the interview. Media Malpractice is propaganda, not media criticism. Z

These would be the interviews that Couric spent time preparing for with senior members of the Obama campaign team, right? Interviews in which the manner of the questioning and the agenda for the questions themselves was arranged by the direct opponents of McCain/Palin, yes? And who was it that was being protected there?

Hi, Ayyyiiiiii, the myths folks tell themselves. If you are telling me the Obama team gave Couric the questions, I am speechless. Thanks. Z

Distortion after distortion is still untruth multiplied. The interview was staged for bashing. Hear the Governors UNEDITED words on the Ziegler dvd. Your contiuned sliming is boring.

Hi Sam, who "staged" the interview? Please clarify. I am fascinated by these myths about the interviews that took down Palin. Thanks. Z

z....the "myth" of editing could easily be addressed if they offered the entire interview on you-tube. This has been firmly rejected by CBS. With all the drama, why not? It is nice that you can "assure" us all that there was no editing, I am sure we can take that to the bank.

As to Katie, fact is, without those legs no one would have ever known her name. Unfortunately but true. How many extremely qualified women are there who never get a chance because they are "attractiveness challenged" but Katie is celebrated for her journalistic talents? I am surprised you would put her in a category of Walter Cronkite.

Hi Steve, There is a reason CBS does offer the full tape: To do so would open the door to the government demanding tapes, notes and other confidential material that the courts now protect the press from handing over to the government. This is to assure a free press. To do anything to jeopardize that hard earned right would be insane. Z

1.couric asks about health care in the bailout question. but they edited that part out. when it was aired.

2.couric lays out 5 trap questions on the issue of abortion to keep palin paranoid at ever step in the interview.

Bottom line: couric's interview was very unprofessional asking condescending questions like "what do you read"
is couric really that stupid? of course gov. palin reads up on state issues SHE IS THE GOV. OF A STATE
If you look at Gov.palin's body language when she is asked that question you can see why she gave the "Alaska isn't a foreign country " answer. Gov.palin was clearly taken back by the question because it was such a condescending question. The context of the newspaper question is very important.

Hi Steptoe, I am still astonished that this so-called journlism major could not name one publication she read. I had almost forgotten that. Thanks for reminding me. Two things about Palin that emerged from that interview: how limited her education is, and how willing she is to wing it and act like she knows what she clearly does not know. If she was not such a brazen phony, I would feel sorry for her. Thanks. Z

z....Offering a full interview would breech the first amendment?? Perhaps you could quote the Supreme Ct cases supporting your legal opinion. Personally I feel confident the constitution and 1st amendment could survive some transparency with the Palin interview. It is the liberal propaganda surrounding Sarah that might be tarnished, not the constitution.

Hi Steve, I am talking about handing over outtakes from an interview. The press continues to insist it has the right not to do so, and conservative administrations from the local to the national level consistently try to get the courts to revoke that right. I do not hand over notes from an interview. I would rather go to jail than do so, because of the very right I am talking about in connection with CBS outtakes. If Palin sat down for that interview expecting every second of it to air -- or that she had the right to see all the outtakes -- she is even more poorly informed about the press and democracy that even I thought. And I do not believe anyone could be that poorly informed. Thanks. Z

z.....There is no doubt that CBS has every right to keep any portions of the interview private. That is protected. If you suggest that offering the full interview to the public domain will somehow breech the first amendment for all other interviews, that is clearly not the law. The question is, was the interview edited to make Katie look good and Sarah look bad. Yes or no. If CBS simply released the entire interview, we would all know. And based on how far CBS supported Dan Rather in memogate, it is pretty clear how happy they are to print material damaging to the right and supportive of the left. Hence, they will not allow us to see a full version.

As to Sarah, she was incredibly uninformed, unprepared and poorly advised to ever give Katie the honor of interviewing her. If she were as incredibly unintelligent as she appears in that interview, one could rationally conclude a live debate with a veteran of the political wars such as Joe Biden would quickly expose her. In fact, he was unable to. You can say he won, but even her critics generally admit she handled it quite well. Conclusion for me is, I will judge her on what I see in a live unedited format. When the potentially edited version offers such a radically different perception, I rationally conclude there is something wrong with the potentially edited version which leads me to believe Sarah Palin is an intelligent competent woman.

Hi Steve, thanks. I am saying you "open to door" to further incursions on your right once you surrender outtakes. Thanks. Z

I used to like Katie.
After the Palin interviews I stopped liking her. Because I know for a fact that Sarah Palin is an EXCELLENT manager, and a highly intelligent woman, and deals with weighty issues on a daily basis, with a warm heart and a down to earth efficiency and vision. WHY Katie would not support another woman, who was actually more qualified than the Presidential Candidate, and who had a history of achievement in government, was beyond me, until I began to see the media had closed ranks to smear this excellent woman.

You might deserve the award if maybe you could have found out a little information on Obama. Maybe then the country wouldn't be heading for socialism. Or maybe you just don't care.

What a surprise on organ of media intolerance honoring another.

Couric did even attempt to hide her disdain for a pro life feminists nominee for national office. Nice try CBS, Katie and USC, but you did not kill this mama grizzly who will come back roaring to undo the mess your candidate is making.

Hardly a surprise coming from Norman Lear, who has built a career on attacking conservatives, and now runs an organization essentially designed to continue that screwy legacy.

Sorry but I'm with Steve on this full interview question. The interview itself can not be equated with "notes." As an ex-newpaper reported and editor my notes were far more extensive than any interview I conducted. However, any recordings i made during an interveiw were always made available if the the interviewee had an issue with what was published.
Palin did not do well in the interview, granted. And it was a typical bonehead mistake by McCain's people to allow the interview. Obama didn't grant an interview to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity as I recall. And please do not try to make a disctinction between Couric and Limbaugh or Hannity. She has an agenda, and a stage just like they do. Only she - and CBS and NBC and ABC - lie about the context in which they broadcast.
She is an empty vessel that they fill every evening. A trained parakeet has as much presence as Couric. So let us dispense with the concept that she cemented her "gravis" by ambushing Palin. She could have cemented her "gravis" by attempting an equally obtuse interview with Obama/Biden. But she didn't. She wouldn't. She couldn't.
The award is simply another incenstuous attempt to save face for a CBS new operation that hasn't been in touch with reality since the late 1960's.
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

Kip, maybe your selective memory hasn't allowed you to remember when Obama granted an interview to Bill O'Reilly? Here it is, since you can't recall:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_753sLQQ8q8

Excellent work, Z, Palin was exposed as the brazenly stupid, vapid liar that she is.

Hi Rod, I like all the adjectives you used in front of Palin. Honestly, I have not heard "brazenly stupid" applied to her, but that does capture the way she came off to many in the Couric interviews. And thanks for the O'Reilly link. Z

Z-
I was very happy to read about Katie's award. I thought it was an excellent interview and it really showed what a great journalist she is. Those of us who have worked with Katie already knew that. It's too bad that there are so many people out there who are determined to convince us that she is an attractive woman without a brain. They are obviously looking at the wrong person.
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Hello Effie: Thanks for the comments. And I admit I am surprised to see some folks still unwilling to acknowledge her outstanding skill as a journalist. I think gender does play a role in that kind of prejudice. Thanks. Z

Gender now plays a role in our dislike of Catie? Lets see, we are unhappy with Catie who is a woman for what we believe is unfairly presenting Governor Palin, another woman and the conclusion is we dont like Catie due to gender prejudice? Has it ever occurred to you if we had some prejudice against women, we would not be so supportive of Governor Palin?

Hi,

Katie was given the wrong award: She should receive the Connie Chung Ambush Award!

Dick Gentry

"Out of the blue candidate"...are you referring to Obama??

The slobbering MSM missed the boat on vetting their Messiah & Associates and now that boat is sinking...oh, except for the great state of ALASKA, the only solvent state in the nation with 5 yrs. of reserves...Get on that story MSM....

Congratulations to Ms. Couric & should NEVER be compared to Connie Chung.

I am happy that the truth is coming out finally about this interview. Katie Couric is guilty of journalistic malpractice. There should be stiff consequences for what she did in this interview.

Sarah Palin is a very smart individual and was made to look stupid by the editing of Katie Couric. All I want is the truth and it is very hard to come by in the mainstream press. This is something that is going to be detrimental to our country if we do not get it under control.

I also wish that the media would lay off of the Palin family. There is just no excuse for the way she and her family has been treated. I will not again listen to anything Katie Couric has to say on any subject. She has sold her journalistic soul.