Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric went to bat for her former colleagues on a Wednesday Substack video interview with fellow Substacker Liz Plank. Couric claimed that “for everybody shitting on the mainstream,” they still rely on it for their news and that it is still needed to combat “the shit show that is the Trump administration.”
Alluding to a couple of lawsuit settlements President Trump has had with two of the big three networks, Couric began by reporting that she is seeking to make a documentary about “what has happened to journalism and how it has really changed and how it's so critical for a democracy to have a free press and, you know, obviously corporate stuff that's going on at ABC and CBS.”
She also added that for all the hate the industry gets, the haters could not do their job without it, “A lot of these social media creators, you know, for everybody shitting on mainstream media, you know, they depend on a lot of mainstream outlets to get their information and then to report it. It's not like they're on the scene… I asked the Midas Touch guys about this. And they said, ‘Oh, we do some original reporting,’ but a lot of it isn't original, although in fairness they can watch the CSPAN feeds, they can see what's going on at press conferences and all that stuff, so they can write directly from an event, but sometimes they're reporting what other outlets have reported, so I think it just, it underscores the importance of more traditional media.”
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