{"id":876201,"date":"2021-10-13T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876201"},"modified":"2021-10-13T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:29:23","slug":"repeat-offender-katie-couric-edited-rbg-interview-to-remove-criticism-of-nfl-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/repeat-offender-katie-couric-edited-rbg-interview-to-remove-criticism-of-nfl-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat Offender: Katie Couric Edited RBG Interview to Remove Criticism of NFL Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepeat-offender-katie-couric-edited-rbg-interview-to-remove-criticism-of-nfl-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.847533632287\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Veteran journalist was involved in 2016 doc that misrepresented gun-rights activists<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KatieCouricJune30-540x282-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/KatieCouricJune30-540x282.jpg 540w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/KatieCouricJune30-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/KatieCouricJune30-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/KatieCouricJune30-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KatieCouricJune30.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 October 13, 2021 5:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"66.274802458297\">\n<p>Katie Couric admits in her forthcoming memoir she intentionally cut out Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s criticism of NFL anthem protests from a taped interview in order to protect the Supreme Court justice&#8217;s legacy, the latest instance of the veteran journalist selectively editing interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Couric reveals in <em>Going There <\/em>that a 2016 interview with Ginsburg was edited to omit the liberal icon&#8217;s statement that NFL players who kneeled for the national anthem displayed a &#8220;contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.&#8221; The former <em>Today Show<\/em> host, who is a member of the Aspen Institute&#8217;s commission on media disinformation, wrote that she wanted to protect Ginsburg from public backlash and that she did not believe the octogenarian justice fully understood her question, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10088027\/Katie-Couric-admits-editing-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-interview-protect-late-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Couric&#8217;s admission marks a pattern for the reporter. In 2016, the makers of a documentary featuring Couric admitted that they edited her interview with a gun-rights group in order to portray it in a negative light. The documentary, <em>Under the Gun<\/em>, showed members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League sitting in an extended, awkward silence in response to a question from Couric about gun purchases. But audio of the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/audio-shows-katie-couric-gun-documentary-deceptively-edited-interview-pro-gun-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided to<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> revealed that the group members promptly responded to Couric&#8217;s question. Couric and the filmmakers defended their deception in statements to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Couric&#8217;s handling of the Ginsburg interview could call into question her credentials for serving on the Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder. The commission, for which England&#8217;s Prince Harry serves as a vice chairman, says that disinformation has caused a &#8220;modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tech billionaire Craig Newmark funds the Aspen commission. Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/01\/craig-newmark-disinformation-conservative-joe-bide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funded<\/a> a New York University study published earlier this year that said without evidence that emails from Hunter Biden&#8217;s infamous laptop were &#8220;stolen material.&#8221; The study also said that Twitter and Facebook made &#8220;reasonable&#8221; decisions to block links to articles in the <em>New York Post<\/em> about Biden&#8217;s emails.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Veteran journalist was involved in 2016 doc that misrepresented gun-rights activists  Chuck Ross \u2022 October 13, 2021 5:15 pm Katie Couric admits in her &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}