here s the difference, she left out ginsburg s harsh characterization but left in, quote, it made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a dangerous life. so she omitted a key part of the interview with a supreme court justice and she s getting a lot of criticism for this. robert, couric said she still wrestles with the decision she made. did she make the right decision to take out that quote? i have note read miss couric s book but based on what you just described there, it reminds me of the trump era where interviews with trump were detailed in articles but ultimately many news organizations, including the washington post decided to put out transcripts of those interviews because when you re dealing with people in power at the highest positions, whether it s a president or member of the supreme court, readers, citizens deserve to have as much information as possible, and full transcripts, if you can provide them, really help readers get behind the scenes of the re
time ago, of course, just like most of her talent and most of the producers, most of the figure heads who run fox corpo corporation. and yet many of the viewers come away with the sense the vaccine is scary, untested, unproven, something to be skeptical about, something to take only if necessary. is that a form of brainwashing? is that a fair word? i want to ask a couple guests now, oliver darcy, cnn media reporter who covers this day in and day out and jenk senko, award winning documentary filmmaker and author of the book the brainwashing of my dad and also directed the film of the same way and now out newly as a book. jen, thank you very much for joining me. brainwashing is a strong word but it came to my mind this week watching fox s never-ending vaccine mandate coverage. that s what fox primetime is all about these days. right. how do you view their
the brainwashing of my dad, i didn t actually think it was necessarily brainwashing but that s what it felt like to me and many, many people. of course, after i did the movie and talked to neuroscientists, then i found oh, yeah, it is brainwashing. but i ve seen this happen to so many people and thousands and thousands of people have told me their stories. it s always very sad. however, media reporters like you and me, we don t always cover it that way. you rarely hear about that. you rarely hear about the impact of the viewers of the content on fox news. maybe that s changing. right, brian, it s difficult as media reporters i think to convey to people how persistent these anti-vax messages on fox are. exactly. it is day in and day out. it never ends. it s like a fire hose of anti-vax rhetoric coming from these people. i was thinking about it in these terms, if you had a company out there throwing anti-vaccine rally filling up football
inject their kids with an experimental drug. if the vaccine is so great, wouldn t it sell itself? there d be no reason to force people to take it. people are being forced to take it. the cleveland clinic said if you had covid-19, you don t need any vaccine. since covid, bill gates has gained extraordinary powers over what you can and cannot do to your own body. bill gates would like you to take the coronavirus vaccine. i m not even going to get my freedom back. if told my friends i m getting the vaccine. they think i m absolutely nuts, they wouldn t take it in a million years. i don t know who to listen to. we know who to listen to. we re going to reflect on this anniversary with the former communications director for a long-standing republican official, jeb bush. tim miller. and jen cinco, the director of the brainwashing of my dad and the author of a new book that focuses on how fox news turned her once open-minded father and so many others into something of a raging fa