Comments on: More Blog Trouble from Katie Couric http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/04/14/more-blog-trouble-from-katie-couric/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rob Hyndman http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/04/14/more-blog-trouble-from-katie-couric/#comment-73716 Rob Hyndman Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:43:50 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/04/14/more-blog-trouble-from-katie-couric/#comment-73716 My reaction exactly. Hard to understand how the blog commentary was a reasonable perspective. And not clueless, but spun quite deliberately. My reaction exactly. Hard to understand how the blog commentary was a reasonable perspective. And not clueless, but spun quite deliberately.

]]> By: Neil Sanderson http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/04/14/more-blog-trouble-from-katie-couric/#comment-73715 Neil Sanderson Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:39:24 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/04/14/more-blog-trouble-from-katie-couric/#comment-73715 Recycling discredited information is bad enough, but I'm also troubled by the way Couric seeks to exploit fear. She begins: "Is America ready to elect a president who grew up praying in a mosque?" According to CNN which cites his two books, Obama says that while he lived in Indonesia as a child he attended a Muslim school for two years and a Catholic school for two years. So an alternative to Couric's intro could have been: "Is America ready to elect a president who grew up with experience of two of the world's largest religions?" But people might actually answer "yes". Recycling discredited information is bad enough, but I’m also troubled by the way Couric seeks to exploit fear.

She begins: “Is America ready to elect a president who grew up praying in a mosque?”

According to CNN which cites his two books, Obama says that while he lived in Indonesia as a child he attended a Muslim school for two years and a Catholic school for two years.

So an alternative to Couric’s intro could have been:

“Is America ready to elect a president who grew up with experience of two of the world’s largest religions?”

But people might actually answer “yes”.

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