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Americans have watched as the media outlets once trusted as objective news sources have fractured that faith with journalistic malpractice.Reporter confronts Katie Couric for covering up RBG comments and violating journalistic ethics. Couric justifies actions by admitting reporters do it 'all the time.'
Conservatives have noted and lamented the left-wing bias of the mainstream media over the last two or three decades. For years, reporters and liberals denied any sort of bias in news reporting. Now, though, some reporters are just coming out and admitting that they're OK with violating a "cardinal rule of journalism" by omitting facts and information that they find uncomfortable.
On Tuesday, former NBC "Today" host Katie Couric admitted that she and other reporters take these kinds of actions "all the time."
What did she say?
Couric appeared on "Today" to discuss her new memoir with host Savannah Guthrie. During the interview, Guthrie pressed her predecessor on a passage of the book that made headlines last week.
Couric has now admitted that she covered up remarks by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg condemning athletes who kneel during the national anthem. According to Couric, she cut the justice's uncomfortable remarks from her reporting in order to "protect" Ginsburg.
Guthrie questioned the ethics of such a move during the Monday interview.
"You decided to leave out newsworthy comments that she made on the subject of kneeling during the national anthem," Guthrie began. "How did you justify that? It violates a cardinal rule of journalism to do that."
Couric was happy to justify her move by saying that reporters and editors do it "all the time."
"I think what people don't realize is we make editorial decisions like that all the time," she answered. "And I chose to talk about this and put it in the book for a discussion. I mention that it was a conundrum, that I asked Justice Ginsburg about Colin Kaepernick and taking the knee and how she felt about that. And I did include the fact that she said it was dumb and disrespectful, it was stupid and arrogant, and quite a bit of what she said."
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Couric, however, patted herself on the back for revealing the whole RBG conversation in the book, which is now for sale. She attempted to brush by the fact that she buried the discussion when it happened — and would have been relevant — in an effort to shield the aging judge for whom racial justice, according to Couric, was a "blind spot."
But Guthrie pushed back on this point, which Couric, naturally, attempted to dodge.
"Let me push you on it a little bit, because she did make those comments," Guthrie said. "You said in the book that you wanted to protect her. That's not an occasion where you're using that objectivity that's so important to us journalists.
"The question is whether that undermines journalism at a time when reporters are under attack for bias," she continued.
Couric responded by first obfuscating and then admitting, when Guthrie continued to push, that she "should have included" the full Ginsburg comments in her original report.
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In her soon-to-be-released memoir, the former "Today Show" host disclosed she edited an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg to "protect" the then-83-year-old Supreme Court Justice from public backlash. During a 2016 interview, Ginsburg made the mistake of sharing her true feelings about national anthem-kneeler Colin Kaepernick.
Ginsburg told Couric that Kaepernick and his allies were showing "contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life ... which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from."
Couric cut those remarks out of the story she published at Yahoo News. She said she did so to protect Ginsburg because Ginsburg was elderly and likely didn't understand Couric's question. Ginsburg was a working member of the Supreme Court at the time. Her job was to understand, interpret, and rule on complex legal matters. But she was too old to make sense of Kaepernick's lunacy? I don't think so.
And I'm not too old to comprehend why Couric and her editors chose to "protect" Ginsburg. Corporate media is all in on promoting racial division, political division, and division division. Corporate media is the enemy of the people and America.
Corporate media does not want American citizens to realize we have common beliefs and values that bind us. Most rational Americans — whether left or right, white or black, Jew or gentile — believe we're lucky to live in America. Couric's story did not protect Ginsburg. The story used several quotes that made Ginsburg's position on Kaepernick quite clear. It quoted Ginsburg calling the protests "dumb and disrespectful."
Couric protected the prevailing corporate media narrative that only a racist, right-wing political conservative would argue that black Americans are better off in this country than our so-called homelands.
That's an inconvenient truth no one wants to discuss. There are 54 countries on the African continent. That's 54 different destinations for the American dissatisfied to relocate.
Nigeria: I hear it's great there in the summer.
Sudan: They say the fishing is great there.
Ghana: I've heard good things about the food.
Morocco: Housing prices are affordable right now.
Somalia: Best strip clubs on the continent.
Kenya: Amazing sushi bars.
Oh, a few of us will visit a handful of the countries. The number willing to relocate permanently is miniscule. You couldn't get Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, Randy Moss to leave America with the promise of a dozen virgins, a billion dollars, and an endless supply of Hennessy and weed.
Ginsburg thought the exact same thing as a typical Trump supporter. American black people's African ancestors suffered an unspeakable atrocity — chattel slavery — and their descendants are experiencing the benefits produced by that suffering.
I thank God that my ancestors weathered the storm and made America live up to the promises made in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
When you hear the national anthem, that's what you should think about — all the people who suffered and died so that you have the right to live free in the land of opportunity. Our system of government and the Judeo-Chrisitian values established in Western civilization created the greatest country man has known.
The New York Times' 1619 Project won't change that fact. Neither will critical race theory. Nor will Black Lives Matter, the LGBTQ movement, radical feminists, or the Squad.
Ginsburg told Couric that Kaepernick could love it or leave it. She told him to go back to Africa. Or go find his alleged black daddy. She channeled her inner Donald Trump.
Ginsburg said what most of us believe. She definitely gave voice to what our actions reveal about us. We love America. All of us. Black, white, brown, and everything in between. The people pretending that America's narrative arc bends toward racial injustice are making that argument to seize power and money.
They're frauds. Katie Couric is a fraud. She's an enemy of the people. She doesn't see herself that way. But she is. So is everyone who chooses deceit over truth. Deceit is the promotion of death, whether you're lying to yourself or lying to the public.
This morning I saw a story promoted on Twitter that said the see-through outfit Lizzo wore to Cardi B's birthday party "stole the show."
This is a polite lie. It's a polite promotion of a death lifestyle. The American media and Big Tech's social media apps are trying to tell fat people like me that we're perfectly healthy and normal. It's a lie.
The media are lying to us. You can't sustain a democracy or promote justice on a foundation of lies. You might feel like the police are randomly killing scores of black men. Your feelings aren't facts. Your feelings lie.
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