Found this story over at ThinkProgress: Fox News blasted Katie Couric for traveling to Iraq to report on the war because she’s a single mother and is thinking about her career more than her children.
Ok, time out. Katie Couric is a journalist. Iraq is where the story is. So, she’s going there to do her job. The people at Fox News and in the Bush Administration should take note and see how serious people actually do their jobs, because these two groups seem to forget they have a job to do.
Fox News is one of the biggest culprits of “not covering Iraq with the intensity it should.” As a recent Project for Excellence in Journalism study showed, the network consistently covers the war in Iraq roughly half as much as its rivals.Fox has attacked journalists for covering Iraq too much. In February, John Gibson accused CNN’s Anderson Cooper of “news-guy snobbery” for his complaints that the death of Anna Nicole Smith was saturating the news when “there’s a war on.” Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has claimed “CNN and MSNBC are actually helping the terrorists by reporting” often on Iraq.
Just out of curiosity, how many single mothers are in the military fighting in Iraq in harm’s way? Why isn’t anyone making a big deal about these brave individuals? Is it because they’re in the military and doing a “patriotic job” while Couric is in the press and is getting in the way of this administration? Just a thought.