Talk:Palin–Couric interviews

Article probation
This is a notification that articles related to Sarah Palin (broadly construed) have been placed by the community on article probation. See Talk:Sarah Palin/Article probation‎ for details. Thanks - Kelly  hi! 17:43, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Now lifted.   Will Beback    talk    23:29, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Wow
Look at it now! This article is really shaping up! Regards. FangedFaerie ( Talk  |  Edits ) 21:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

YouTube references
The article currently contains several citations using YouTube as a reference. YouTube isn't a reliable source, so these should be replaced. Kelly hi! 18:36, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You're right, they should be replaced if at all possible. I'll start looking. Perhaps you could help? KillerChihuahua?!? 01:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Notability
The Cronkite judges said the interviews were a "defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign". Not sure how to put that in here, too tired to figure it out right now. See the second ref (cronkite-rr) for this content. KillerChihuahua?!? 00:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Coverage
The Palin/Couric interviews covered a lot more ground that the exchange around Palin's international experience. Is this by design, or should we include some of the other topics? Bruno23 (talk) 00:26, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. It was such an epic series of interviews, we definitely need to add more of what was said. The whole Russia exchange drew the most press attention, so I think it's fair to highlight it.--The lorax (talk) 18:03, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The Russia thing got a lot of attention but so did this bit about why she supported the $700 billion bailout (which Tina Fey then quoted verbatim in her Saturday Night Live skit): "That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."
 * --Hnsampat (talk) 13:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

"Format" section
The "Format" section right now quotes the three parts of the interviews (foreign policy experience, bailout, newspapers) that were probably the most disastrous, but without saying so. Quoting them is fine in my view (they're relevant and got a lot of subsequent coverage), but one should say that these are particularly bad points in the interview. So I guess my issues is, (a) everything after the first paragraph is not about the format, and hence needs a different section title, (b) there should be a proper introduction so the quotes don't look like they're meant to be representative of the whole interview material. I'm not sure how to fix it -- somebody want to have a go at it? -- 82.113.106.202 (talk) 01:05, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Title - 2008
Should the title not include "2008"? It's a historic event and needs to be immediately linked into the context of that particular election campaign. Should Katie Couric ever conduct another interview with Sarah Palin then that would hardly fit into the existing article. Or would it? The article's whole point is that this _one_ instance had historical mportance. To illustrate by contrast - it's not an article on "how (not) to do TV interviews" in general. CecilWard (talk) 17:03, 29 January 2012 (UTC)