Ginsburg, who died in 2020, had become a progressive hero to so many, herself included, and she felt that certain comments RBG made were 'unworthy of a crusader for equality.' Though it was a scathing assessment anyway, Couric writes that in the finished edit she didn't include Ginsburg also saying that the players' actions showed 'contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.' She was a 'fan,' Couric shares, and she wanted to protect the then-83-year-old jurist's reputation. I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act.' I've had some pretty public failures, too.'Īhead of the book's release, no revelation in Going There was called out more for being journalistically suspect than Katie Couric's admission that she edited out a comment Ruth Bader Ginsburg made to her during a 2016 interview for Yahoo Global News.Īsked about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality against Black people, the late Associate Supreme Court Justice called the move 'really dumb of them.' Like flag-burning, which is protected free speech, 'I think it's a terrible thing to do,' Ginsburg said, 'but I wouldn't lock a person up for doing it.

'I didn't want to do a victory lap or my greatest hits.

'I couldn't imagine writing something that wasn't honest and radically transparent,' Couric told Today's Savannah Guthrie this month during the most personal stop on her press tour. Rather, all that tea-spilling has had critics and fans alike wondering what sort of game the veteran journalist and TV personality has been playing at all along. Katie Couric's memoir just came out Tuesday, but it's been causing raised eyebrows for a month.įrom her revelations about competition among her fellow female network stars during her time on Today to her thoughts on her disgraced former co-anchor Matt Lauer, from what she didn't reveal about Ruth Bader Ginsburg following a 2016 interview to what she was all too happy to share about Prince Harry, the tidbits that served as preview fodder didn't just drum up anticipation for her 500-page book, Going There.

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