Couric has also drawn scrutiny for another part of her book. She wrote that she decided not to use a portion of that 2016 interview with Ginsburg after the late Supreme Court justice spoke in negative terms about Colin Kaepernick and other athletes who kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.
The final version of the interview, published by Yahoo News, includes Ginsburg saying she believed kneeling during the anthem was "dumb and disrespectful." But it leaves out Ginsburg's harsher criticism of Kaepernick and other athletes, Couric wrote.
Couric, who was a global anchor at Yahoo at the time of the interview, wrote that she cut some of Ginsburg's comments to "protect" the liberal icon.
In recent days, some media critics have faulted Couric for editing the interview. Erik Wemple, a media critic at The Washington Post, wrote a column with the headline, "Katie Couric ‘wanted to protect’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That wasn’t her job."
Couric addressed the criticism on Tuesday.
"I think what people don’t realize is we make editorial decisions like that all the time," she said. "And I chose to talk about this and put it in the book for a discussion."
She said she didn't completely understand what Ginsburg had meant by the excluded comment, but should have asked for clarification.
"I ultimately I think I should have included it, but I think it’s really important to look at what I did include," Couric said.
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i think she should have asked Ginsburg what she meant and included everything she said.
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