By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--June 7, 2016
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Company insiders reveal that an emergency meeting of senior executives was rapidly convened after it emerged that eight seconds of silence had been added to an interview in her documentary “Under the Gun” — which she made outside of her Yahoo role — making it seem as if anti-gun-control activists were stumped by a question. But Yahoo didn’t launch a formal investigation into why their “global anchor” ended up having to publicly apologize for the misleading footage. Couric said in a statement that she had asked director Stephanie Soechtig about why she had inserted the silence, and added, “I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my initial concerns more vigorously.” Major network insiders are stunned that Yahoo didn’t hold a postmortem before continuing to publish Couric’s work. Said a senior staffer at a Big Three network, “Any time there’s a mistake here, there’s a thorough review and consequences where they’re appropriate. You look at the system and say, ‘How did this happen and how do we prevent it from happening again?’ I don’t think any of that happened at Yahoo.”
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