Former anchor of NBC's Today and CBS Evening News Katie Couric alleged on her Thursday Next Question podcast that people, presumably conservatives, who complain about media bias are just lamenting the existence of facts. However, Couric’s example was not anything factual but a lamentation that she could not openly support things like abortion during her previous career.
Talking with the cast of MediasTouch, the podcast that has recently surpassed Joe Rogan on the top of the Spotify chart, Couric decried that “I’m curious because I’ve struggled with this as someone who—you grew up watching, I’m sure—and started in very traditional mainstream media. Now pointing out the facts and what is really happening is automatically interpreted as being biased, right?”
Couric, whose own podcast was nominated for a Webby Award, proceeded to intentionally prove how ridiculous such an assertion is, "And of course, I think there's no such thing as true objectivity, but having said that, you know, I really struggle with that. And many people say, "Listen, the rules have changed. It's okay to say you support trans people. It's okay that you say I am 100 percent for reproductive rights," you know, all these things that honestly as—personally I hold dear, but professionally I've never really—I've been trained to not share that.”
First of all, saying you support “reproductive rights” or “trans people” is an opinion about abortion or the premises of gender theory. There’s nothing factual about them, which is why the trend of journalists confusing their opinions for facts is rejected, not because people have a problem with facts.
Secondly and finally, despite her claims of having to follow traditional journalistic standards in her previous career, Couric never did live up to those standards, especially on abortion.
Here is a transcript for the May 15 show:
Next Question with Katie Couric
5/15/2025
58 Minutes
KATIE COURIC: I’m curious because I’ve struggled with this as someone who—you grew up watching, I’m sure—and started in very traditional mainstream media. Now pointing out the facts and what is really happening is automatically interpreted as being biased, right?
And of course, I think there's no such thing as true objectivity, but having said that, you know, I really struggle with that. And many people say "Listen, the rules have changed. It's okay to say you support trans people. It's okay that you say I am 100 percent for reproductive rights," you know, all these things that honestly as—personally I hold dear, but professionally I've never really—I've been trained to not share that, so I’m curious if you think sort of old fashioned semi-objective, knowing that pure objectivity is impossible, that kind of journalism still has a place in the culture, or is it simply, you know the 75 and up people who are watching the network evening news casts?
