Cronkite Award: Theater of the Absurd

Documentary film maker John Ziegler posted an op-ed on The Fox Forum about See-BS' Katie Couric, whom the Annenberg School for Communication will honor with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Journalism for her Sarah Palin interview:

It is obvious that Couric is being rewarded for the political result of her interview –the shooting down of a conservative superstar just in time to save the Obama campaign. It’s not about the "journalism" at all. But even that truth is not the most outrageous aspect of this absurdity. What’s even more absurd is that not only shouldn’t Couric be getting rewarded for her Palin interview, if we lived in a world where journalistic standards still mattered at all, she would have been roundly condemned for it.

Ziegler says that while he wasn't able to get a ticket for the April 15th awards ceremony he will be there:

I plan to be at the event handing out copies of “Media Malpractice” to any of the attendees who want to know the facts.

I am sure I will be received warmly. After all, isn’t getting the facts what journalism is supposed to be all about?

Well, John, to paraphrase a former president of the United States, that depends on what the meaning of "facts" is.

- JP