Analysis: Katie Couric’s self-defeating effort to “protect” Ruth Bader Ginsburg
But that’s not really the point here. The point is this is a journalist reportedly saying she made a decision about publishing something by citing personal affection for and a desire to protect a subject she was covering. That’s not how it works. You publish what’s newsworthy and then let Ginsburg try to clean it up if she wants to.As for the notion that Ginsburg was too elderly to understand the question? This is someone whose job quite literally was to parse extremely complex things.
This kind of source protection is something plenty of the country will already suspect takes place in the media, and there’s their confirmation of it.But also, consider the folly of feeling the need to protect Ginsburg — a Supreme Court justice! And in that regard, Couric had plenty of company on the political left.
For much of the tail end of her tenure on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg became almost a cult figure on the left — someone who was to be regarded with this kind of reverence and not questioned. Mother Jones’s Stephanie Mencimer wrote in 2018, two years before Ginsburg’s death, about howStory continues below advertisement
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