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.”
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