{"id":33890,"date":"2021-10-13T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=33890"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:40:51","slug":"modern-journalisms-task-protecting-us-from-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2021\/10\/13\/modern-journalisms-task-protecting-us-from-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Journalism’s Task: Protecting Us From the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1448355063445995526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie Couric now admits<\/a> that she <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/katie-couric-admits-she-edited-rbgs-anthem-kneeling-comments\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censored Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments regarding kneeling during the national anthem to “protect” RGB. Here is an excerpt from the NY Post: <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Couric, being a \u201cbig RBG fan\u201d and feeling protective of her and the controversy the comments would likely embroil her in, wrote in the book that she \u201clost a lot of sleep\u201d and felt extremely \u201cconflicted\u201d over deciding whether she should include Ginsburg\u2019s full thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book Couric claims that she withheld the full quote (which would have been highly newsworthy) because RBG \u201cwas elderly and probably didn\u2019t understand the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did RBG actually say in 2016? Here are a few screen shots from the New York Post:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33891\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM.png 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33892\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM.png 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33893\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-185x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-185x300.png 185w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-631x1024.png 631w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-768x1246.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-947x1536.png 947w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM.png 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that for Couric, RBG was too old to understand Couric’s question but not too old to serve as a high-functioning Justice on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s what is really going on: RBG’s statement simply didn’t fit the preconceived media narrative Couric was serving up. <em>That<\/em> was the real problem. \u00a0Modern journalism is both what they tell you and what they withhold from you. They are not content to tell you facts so that you can think for yourself. They want to tell you how to think and they do this by misleading you.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this is not the first left-leaning institution that refused to accurately report the words of their hero, RGB. \u00a0Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2021\/09\/22\/aclu-corrects-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-offensive-quote\/\">what the ACLU recently did?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1448355063445995526\">Katie Couric now admits<\/a> that she <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/katie-couric-admits-she-edited-rbgs-anthem-kneeling-comments\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">censored Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments regarding kneeling during the national anthem to “protect” RGB. Here is an excerpt from the NY Post: <\/a><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Couric, being a \u201cbig RBG fan\u201d and feeling protective of her and the controversy the comments would likely embroil her in, wrote in the book that she \u201clost a lot of sleep\u201d and felt extremely \u201cconflicted\u201d over deciding whether she should include Ginsburg\u2019s full thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn her new book Couric claims that she withheld the full quote (which would have been highly newsworthy) because RBG \u201cwas elderly and probably didn\u2019t understand the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat did RBG actually say in 2016? Here are a few screen shots from the New York Post:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33891\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.09-PM.png 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33892\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.17.25-PM.png 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33893\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-185x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-185x300.png 185w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-631x1024.png 631w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-768x1246.png 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM-947x1536.png 947w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-11.19.32-PM.png 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nNote that for Couric, RBG was too old to understand Couric’s question but not too old to serve as a high-functioning Justice on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere’s what is really going on: RBG’s statement simply didn’t fit the preconceived media narrative Couric was serving up. <em>That<\/em> was the real problem. \u00a0Modern journalism is both what they tell you and what they withhold from you. They are not content to tell you facts so that you can think for yourself. They want to tell you how to think and they do this by misleading you.<\/p>\n<p>\nBTW, this is not the first left-leaning institution that refused to accurately report the words of their hero, RGB. \u00a0Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2021\/09\/22\/aclu-corrects-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-offensive-quote\/\">what the ACLU recently did?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6238,56,5,6237,6608,6602,6379,6561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackouts","category-censorship","category-media","category-media-blackouts","category-narratives-in-media","category-partisanship","category-silence-communication","category-woke-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33897,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33890\/revisions\/33897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}