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In reply to the discussion: Katie Couric Exposes RBG After 'Protecting' Her from Scolding National Anthem Kneelers Like Colin Ka [View all]Champp
(2,114 posts)29. There's something wrong about editing out key elements of an interview
to "protect" anyone, whether the journalist is assuming that person is an honest, thoughtful, honorable citizen Democrat, or a lie-gulping, anti-democracy, fascist-ass-kissing Republican reprobate.
It's not Couric's job to "protect" her subject. It's to make plain what they say and do.
If she'd broadcast the quotes back when the were spoken, the ensuing "controversy" (if one did arise) would have rapidly clarified the matter. To wit, if Ginsburg did not fully grasp the question, as Couric speculates, then the "controversy" would have given her an opportunity to clarify.
Thus endeth today's first rant. Thank you very much
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Katie Couric Exposes RBG After 'Protecting' Her from Scolding National Anthem Kneelers Like Colin Ka [View all]
Calista241
Oct 2021
OP
I don't think we should idolize anyone, including RBG. If her ego hadn't been so large
pnwmom
Oct 2021
#20
It's Mediaite regurgitating UK Daily Mail which also isn't exactly LBN. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2021
#6
'Protecting' an interview subject. I'll bet she wonders why she's not taken as a serious journalist.
Gidney N Cloyd
Oct 2021
#9
RGB as a "white privileged" selfish woman who you feel didn't know her place?
Devil Child
Oct 2021
#34
Wow!! That great intellectual powerhouse Katie Couric was protecting weak little RGB!!!
NNadir
Oct 2021
#22
If Kaepernick had only connected his kneeling to prayer for the disproportionate killing
summer_in_TX
Oct 2021
#25
She was Democrat but you wouldn't know it from her SCOTUS record. That's what we need ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#32
RGB doesn't need Katie Couric "protecting" anyone from RGB's liberty to have an independent thought
Devil Child
Oct 2021
#33