Katie Couric Lied So You Could Feel Good about Your Opinion — Paradox

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1. This reminds me of something I saw earlier: Epic Correction of the Decade.

   I’ll lift this shamelessly from the blog post:

   The original article was called “Correlation not causation: the relationship between personality traits and political ideologies,” and was written by three academics at Virginia Commonwealth University. Here’s the relevant part of the abstract:

   Work in psychology, behavioral genetics, and recently political science, however, has demonstrated that political preferences also develop in childhood and are equally influenced by genetic factors. These findings cast doubt on the assumed causal relationship between personality and politics. Here we test the causal relationship between personality traits and political attitudes using a direction of causation structural model on a genetically informative sample. The results suggest that personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes; rather, the correlation between the two is a function of an innate common underlying genetic factor.

   So far, so good, right?

   Well, when you get to the correction, you see this:

   The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed. (Emphasis added.)

   I have goosebumps.Report

   1. Hit Coffee. Tuesday. Tune in.Report

      1. I’m holding my breath already.Report

2. Whatever. Fake but accurate. We all know it’s what they really believe.Report

3. As one of our former commenters might say: “What Couric is expressing is more true than the truth!”Report

4. Apparently Couric plans to stand by her truthiness. Why edit it to be accurate when you want to start a discussion?

   Katie Couric Says ‘Under the Gun’ Will Not Be Redone to Remove Deceptive Edit

   http://www.thewrap.com/katie-couric-hopes-gun-doc-controversy-sparks-bigger-conversation/Report

5. But let’s not lay the blame fully on Couric.

   No, let’s. The idea that professionals, which is what Couric purports to be, are helpless in the face of short-term incentives, is absolutely pernicious.Report

   1. Don’t be so hard on her. Being a helpless victim is a liberal value.Report

   2. Yeah, it’s not like she’s an investment banker.Report

   3. Indeed. This demonstrates, again, the lie that journalist are “objective”. You’d think that 2nd Amend folks would learn to just decline to talk to folks that have a high probability of screwing them over.Report

      1. It’s also highly likely that the production crew violated federal firearms regs in their purchase of the firearms.Report

         1. They did violate the fed laws. As usual however they won’t be prosecuted. Instead of enforcing the laws, liberals just want to whine about things.Report

            1. Well they certainly won’t be charged, because that would defeat the overall objectives. That anchor in DC who whipped out a higher capacity mag than the law allowed wasn’t charged either.Report

               1. Yes, I was thinking that incident with the talk show host as well. Why enforce the laws when these distortions are really just meant to foster a discussion?Report

                  1. LOL.

                     There’s rules for them and rules for us. Never forget that, to paraphrase “Blade Runner”, “You know the score, pal. You’re not an elite, you’re little people!”Report

                  2. It gets better:

                     “Katie Couric Accused of Deceptive Editing in Second Documentary”

                     http://freebeacon.com/culture/katie-couric-accused-deceptive-editing-second-documentary/

                     Surprise surprise surprise.Report

6. Stuff like this is why the liberal faction carries such negative connotations.Report

   1. It’s not like the right doesn’t have its fair share of hack journalists.Report

      1. So Couric is now a “hack journalist”? That’s odd bc I thought she was well respected. Sounds like pathetic attempt to downplay her actions. Maybe you could give us an example of a right wing journalist that is as respected as Couric and has done the same thing. Let’s compare apples to apples.Report

         1. Well we could, if you could find a right wing journalist who did not okeefe themselves out before they got the nightly news.Report

            1. Nice try but insinuating that every right wring jurno has “okeefed themselves” is just just pathetic b/c you know it isn’t true.Report

               1. Well call my depth shallow but I cant think of a right wing high profile star who also has not had an issue with truthness.Report

         2. You won’t find one. They don’t exist. Why? Who do you “well respected” moniker comes from within the journo community, ergo, since they are all mainly liberal, they’ll never gift that label to anyone 1 degree right of them.Report

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