FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday Aug 29, 2006 |
CONTACT: TIM SCHEIDERER OR
COLLEEN O’BOYLE AT 703.683.5004 |
THE REAL KATIE COURIC:
15 YEARS OF CLOBBERING CONSERVATIVES AND PROMOTING LIBERALS
Alexandria, VA – The Media Research Center
today released a new report documenting the lengthy record of
liberal bias that Katie Couric brings to CBS as she prepares to
replace the disgraced Dan Rather as permanent anchor of the CBS
Evening News next week. The MRC’s 21-page Special Report,
Meet the Real Katie Couric, demonstrates how Couric pushed a
liberal political agenda during her 15 years as co-host of NBC’s
Today.
“Ridding itself of Dan Rather, CBS had the perfect opportunity to
regain the credibility and ratings it lost by his soapbox
reporting,” said MRC President L. Brent Bozell III. “Instead, the
network has driven the last nail into its own coffin by elevating
Katie Couric to anchor the CBS Evening News. Katie is indisputably
an attractive and charming presence, but her record is also that of
a liberal activist, not a fair and balanced journalist. She won’t
fix the bias problem that’s eroded CBS’s credibility. Instead, Katie
will be the head cheerleader for CBS’s skewed version of the
‘news.’”
Meet the Real Katie Couric contains nearly 100 examples of
Couric’s on-air liberal bias, many accompanied by audio and video
clips.
Read the full report.
Examples of Couric’s track record of liberal bias:
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Crusading for European-style socialist programs,
suggesting “Americans could learn a lot from the…French.”
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Ripping Republicans as “rigid,” “exclusionary,”
“divisive” and “draconian.”
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Blaming conservatives for the murder of gay
college student Matthew Shepard in 1998, touting left-wing claims of
“a climate of anti-gay hate that’s been fostered by the political
right.”
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Deploring Ronald Reagan with insults such as “The
Gipper was an airhead!”
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Lavishing praise on Left/liberal icons such as
Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Clinton ― even Cuba’s
communist dictator Fidel Castro.
T o
schedule an interview with MRC President Bozell or an MRC
spokesperson, please contact Tim Scheiderer (x. 126) or Colleen
O’Boyle (x. 122) at 703.683.5004.
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