Talk:Cokie Roberts

message: In broadcasts on NPR (and perhaps other places as well) Cokie Roberts often starts her sentences with an unpleasant "Look,", as if she were scolding her unobservant listeners. This makes it difficult for me to listen to her, regardless of whether or not I'm open to her opinions. Anyone else notice this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.32.58.204 (talk) 12:47, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a chat page ... take your opinions elsewhere. -- Jibal (talk) 21:47, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

text: It's true--that's her full name.  She gave a speech this morning at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in D.C. and actually commented on Wikipedia's inaccuracy--said it was "Mary Martha" and not "Martha Mary," and then stated her full name (I followed up with her later at her book signing, and the name as it stands is indeed correct).  --Miss Dark 15:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

text: This is not a chat page ... take your opinions elsewhere. -- Jibal (talk) 21:47, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial comments 

message: Is she a republican ?  Anyone ?
:She did receive a Bush appointment. She's a conservative commentator. So more than likely. It might take going through voter rolls to uncover how she's registered, though. 24.17.247.213 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 02:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Notwithstanding comments from others suggesting that she is a Republican shill among the likes of Rush Limbaugh, it hardly seems likely that she is Republican.  She has worked for NPR and/or PBS almost all of her career--those are not organizations quite like Fox News or the EIB Network.  She is Catholic, and Catholics have traditionally been Democrats; and she is married to a Jewish man, and Jews have traditionally been Democrats.  And both of her parents served multiple terms in the House of Representatives as Democrats; and children, especially children of politicians, seem often to belong to the party of their parents.  (Her parents may have been "conservative" Dixiecrats, but she herself has been hanging around Washington too long to have been affected by the Republican tide that swept across the South in the 1980s.)  She may have received an appointment from President Bush, but so did a lot of Democrats, just as a lot of Republicans received appointments from President Obama.  If she said Obama should not be seen vacationing in Hawaii, perhaps it was because she feared that it would damage his reputation among the lot of ordinary working-class people who would think him too snooty vacationing in some exotic place, or add to his mystique as an outsider--he is, after all, literally African American and spent a lot of his life in Asia.  Perhaps also she was a Hilary Clinton supporter.  Hilary's husband, after all, had made her mother the United States ambassador to the Vatican.  Perhaps if her reporting seems conservative it is because she is actually an enormously talented journalist and does not betray her own political beliefs in her work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.48.102.233 (talk) 19:33, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The entry above is nothing but inane blather. I am reluctant to attack a contributor (although that may not apply in this case because the comment is unsigned) but even on a talk page, contributors should conform to minimal standards above the level of and aimless and completely baseless speculation. ---Dagme (talk) 04:51, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a lot more substantive than your comment. But none of this belongs on this page. -- Jibal (talk) 21:50, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Party? 

message: This photo is photoshopped extensively, and given her age must be from 40 years ago. You can tell by the eyes which "bug out" nowadays quite a bit. 
The Photo of Ms. Roberts is years old.  Wouldn't a more recent photo be appropriate?  Like the photo posted on the PBS/Tavis Smiley website on April 30, 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200804/20080430_roberts.html
DVet78 (talk) 17:25, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The picture needs to be updated. 24.17.247.213 (talk) 02:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: of course it needs to be updated but this is the only photo available to upload to Wikipedia, those other photos fall under copyright issues, so unless you find a free photo, we are stuck with this one. mijotoba (talk) 15:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Well that may be the case, but the picture was available on a website of the federal government and works of the government are in the public domain, and there was no additional mention of a pre-existing copyright or notice to make any other assumptions. mijotoba (talk) 00:49, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: to  Tim Russert, & Charles Schumer, Chuck Schumer & Cokie Roberts had been on a 1967 "It%27s_Academic", according to the Sunday, the 05th, November, 2006 Meet the Press.  I, hereby, request assistance in further verifying this.
Thank You.
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thread_title:  According 

message: Shouldn't we mention her consistent extreme right-wing bias, which has been repeatedly, and factually documented on websites such as FAIR or Media Lens?  To call Cokie Roberts a "journalist" is indeed a stretch of the imagination!  She is in the same category as Sean Hannity, David Brooks, Ann Coulter, and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News: these people are not 'journalists' per se (in the traditional sense of the term, e.g. reporting news in a factual and objective manner--free of political bias); they are Republican shills, and/or public relations talk show personalities promoting  conservative, corporate, Republican interests.
the "career" section is bit of a muddled mess.   surely, some editor could put it in a more cohesive timeline.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.13.31 (talk) 08:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, they are all DUST. What a trivial waste. Will delete according to WP:DUST. It's just chatter. The paragraph supposedly sourced from John Sherman's book, Latin America in Crisis, sounds like OR. Also, I tried to find the references in Sherman's book today while working on the page for Dianna Ortiz and could not do it - a Google search did not reveal Roberts, her brother Boggs, Jr., nor his lobbying firm in this book. Unless someone has a quote from Nightline, and a quote and page cite from Sherman making this connection, this is not adequately sourced to use.Parkwells (talk) 19:32, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The information is more than 15 years old, so I'm not sure it qualifies as WP:DUST. I did a quick Google search for "diane ortiz cokie roberts" and found plenty of information. I don't think that providing a quote automatically gives adequate source to something, but I'll find one. Below is the actual paragraph. Mvblair (talk) 14:34, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: While working in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico, was raped and tortured by members of a death squad until a US supervisor recognized that she was from the US.[12] Although there was no doubt of Ortiz's torture and ample evidence to corroborate her claims of an American supervisor, Roberts insisted that Ortiz was lying in a 1996 interview with Ortiz on the TV show "Nightline." Roberts' brother, Tom Boggs, working for the advertising firm of "Patton, Boggs, & Blow," was paid by the Guatemalan military to promote a more positive image of the death squads and the military dictatorship in Guatemala.[13] This incident caused a tremendous amount of scrutiny into other potential nepotistic relationships within the media.
I updated the page, per these suggestions and included references to Nightlin. It should be a little cleaner now. Not having a "controversies" section, I included it in the discussion about her general career. Mvblair (talk) 01:03, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

text: It appears that someone just renamed the section and put it under "Criticism" That entire section reads more like someone's opinion than an actual non-biased article.  Sources seem to all be opinion pieces.  Section needs to be reworked, or deleted entirely.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.183.47.148 (talk) 18:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career 

message: Someone had deleted the controversies section about Cokie Roberts earlier and they used the Wikipedia:DUST rule to justify it, I did not think about it before, but he is right, those kind of news are better left for the future, especially the recent comments about Obama, since it hasn't even been a year. Please consider reviewing DUST to avoid adding trivial information which may very well be ephemeral and not important from an encyclopedia point of view. mijotoba (talk) 23:38, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, they are all DUST. What a trivial waste. Will delete according to WP:DUST. It's just chatter. The paragraph supposedly sourced from John Sherman's book, Latin America in Crisis, sounds like OR. Also, I tried to find the references in Sherman's book today while working on the page for Dianna Ortiz and could not do it - a Google search did not reveal Roberts, her brother Boggs, Jr., nor his lobbying firm in this book. Unless someone has a quote from Nightline, and a quote and page cite from Sherman making this connection, this is not adequately sourced to use.Parkwells (talk) 19:32, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The information is more than 15 years old, so I'm not sure it qualifies as WP:DUST. I did a quick Google search for "diane ortiz cokie roberts" and found plenty of information. I don't think that providing a quote automatically gives adequate source to something, but I'll find one. Below is the actual paragraph. Mvblair (talk) 14:34, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: While working in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico, was raped and tortured by members of a death squad until a US supervisor recognized that she was from the US.[12] Although there was no doubt of Ortiz's torture and ample evidence to corroborate her claims of an American supervisor, Roberts insisted that Ortiz was lying in a 1996 interview with Ortiz on the TV show "Nightline." Roberts' brother, Tom Boggs, working for the advertising firm of "Patton, Boggs, & Blow," was paid by the Guatemalan military to promote a more positive image of the death squads and the military dictatorship in Guatemala.[13] This incident caused a tremendous amount of scrutiny into other potential nepotistic relationships within the media.
I updated the page, per these suggestions and included references to Nightlin. It should be a little cleaner now. Not having a "controversies" section, I included it in the discussion about her general career. Mvblair (talk) 01:03, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

text: It appears that someone just renamed the section and put it under "Criticism" That entire section reads more like someone's opinion than an actual non-biased article.  Sources seem to all be opinion pieces.  Section needs to be reworked, or deleted entirely.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.183.47.148 (talk) 18:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversies

message: Would someone closer to this article please ad his position as Budget Director for NC. The thread to banking connections sits at mom's roundtable with George, perhaps.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YnZTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eocDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3173%2C3230147 --Wikipietime (talk) 16:57, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lee Roberts on the move in North Carolina Government 

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message: I see that you are brand new here. Please before deleting again, let's discuss. --valereee (talk) 20:40, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  deletions 

message: The 'Criticism' section seems gratuitously overlong and detailed. – Sca (talk) 14:47, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The paragraph about Guatemala is definitely giving undue weight to a specific incident from a long career, especially in a fairly brief article. The paragraph about her objectivity shouldn't present the counter-arguments to her positions, just state that she had them. –Jason A. Quest (talk) 15:33, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Should this section be deleted, or just modified to clean it up? Sometimes the end is only the beginning... (talk) 15:56, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've trimmed back that section and merged it into the Career section. —<B>Tourchiest</B> talkedits 19:47, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that was the right call. It was a huge deal back in the day and almost ended her career. 2605:A000:1304:4761:A0:A89E:813D:8F3D (talk) 15:43, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Criticism'

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message: Cokie Roberts has stated publicly that she supports the Electoral College system for electing presidents and thus opposes electing presidents by popular vote. Can somebody find a reference for this and include it in the article? ---Dagme (talk) 15:04, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electoral College 

message: In Internet version, the date DIAGNOSED with breast cancer is AFTER her date of DEATH. Date of diagnoses needs to be changed. 4Henrietta (talk) 17:07, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date diagnosed with breast cancer. 

message: The article states:  "During a subsequent interview, Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors."
Anyone have a link/citation for this interview? Wikinetman (talk) 13:39, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interview citation