“Jonathan Turley Uses Precision…” That is not only the highlight of this article, but also this man’s career, and it was on full display when he took on leading liberal journalist Katie Couric.
One of the areas where this man is proud to have the description of “Jonathan Turley uses precision” would have to be in the area of advocacy journalism. He discussed some of the implications of this movement, not only using Katie Couric as an example but describing how her and other advocacy journalists will frame or omit the fact so that they can frame a particular social or political agenda.
How did Couric become one of Turley’s latest targets? Here is what he has to say about the matter:
“Notably, Couric outed herself in her new memoir by recounting how she cut out a quote from the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2016 interview concerning the kneelers at NFL games. What is even more troubling is that journalists like New York Times columnist David Brooks allegedly encouraged her to do so,” Turley wrote.
Here, Jonathan Turley delivers a coup de grace by not only taking a swipe at Katie Couric, but also at her fellow liberal, activist David Brooks. Back to Katie Couric, though.
Turley also detailed an instance where Katie Couric was interviewing the liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg (otherwise known as RBG) and Ginsburg apparently suprised Couric by saying that she thought that those who were kneeling in the NFL games were being “dumb and disrespectful.” Here was Turley’s take on the proceeding events:
“Couric then pushes her to say that they still have a first amendment right to protest. In reality, the right to protest as an employee of a private employer is limited.”
To her credit, even though Ginsburg is normally as liberal as can be, she said that the players were doing nothing more than just showing a “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.”
She added that “they probably could not have lived in the places they came from…as they became older they realized that this was youthful folly. And that’s why education is important.”
To say that this would be a major news item coming from Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who has another nickname as “the notorious RBG” from liberals) would be a serious understatement. However, what does Couric do but totally buries the quote. In a nutshell, Couric was afraid that Ginsburg would become the “infamous RBG” instead if word of her criticizing these “woke” individuals had came out.
This is where activist David Brooks jumped in yet again, maintaining that Ginsburg probably didn’t fully understand the question. Let me tell you, folks, it sure is an odd-ball world when a proponent of conservatives such as myself is finding that I am having to defend a liberal, but here it is. I have just one question for you: if she didn’t understand this question, then how is it that she understood all of the OTHER QUESTIONS? Chew on that for a while…
Either way, it’s a bit disingenuous for these liberal reporters to simply push an agenda, but here we are.