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Fox News Calls Katie Couric a Bad Mother for Reporting In Iraq
August 30, 2007 |
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This post, written by Matt Corley, originally appeared on Think Progress
In two separate segments yesterday, Fox News attacked CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric for reporting from the ground in Iraq, calling it "a desperate move" and asking if it was a "ratings ploy or legitimate journalism."
On Your World With Neil Cavuto, guest host Dagen McDowell featured Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America, who characterized Couric's trip as "a clear act of desperation" by a single mother whose "priorities [are] so determined by her ambition rather than her children's welfare." Crouse pointedly accused Couric of being a bad mother for going to cover Iraq:
I would say the same thing if this were a man journalist going out there, a male anchor, because when you look at the choice she's making, she's saying my ratings are more important than my children. That's the bottom line."Later in the afternoon, The Big Story With John Gibson hosted New York Post columnist Linda Stasi, who called Couric's trip "a desperate move" to gain "some sort of credibility." "You know and I know that she doesn't have to be there for the report," said Stasi.
Matt Corley is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
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