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Katie Couric says sorry for 'misleading' edit in gun rights documentary [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Katie Couric says sorry for 'misleading' edit in gun rights documentary
• Gun rights advocates say omission of responses made them look ‘stupid’
• News anchor’s Under the Gun film accused of journalistic ‘malpractice’
Lois Beckett
Tuesday 31 May 2016 14.22 BST
Katie Couric apologized on Monday after days of criticism about a “misleading” edit in her new documentary that made gun rights advocates “appear to be speechless” when asked a simple question about gun control.
“I take responsibility,” the news anchor wrote in a statement on the website for Under the Gun, a documentary about gun violence in America that she narrated and produced.
Couric had billed the documentary as a balanced look at the gun debate in America, and argued that the film highlighted a “huge silent majority” of gun owners who actually supported the moderate gun control measures that the National Rifle Association rejected.
In a key moment of the film, Couric interviews a group of members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a group that views the NRA as “to the left of us” when it comes to gun rights, according to the VCDL president, Philip Van Cleave.
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• Gun rights advocates say omission of responses made them look ‘stupid’
• News anchor’s Under the Gun film accused of journalistic ‘malpractice’
Lois Beckett
Tuesday 31 May 2016 14.22 BST
Katie Couric apologized on Monday after days of criticism about a “misleading” edit in her new documentary that made gun rights advocates “appear to be speechless” when asked a simple question about gun control.
“I take responsibility,” the news anchor wrote in a statement on the website for Under the Gun, a documentary about gun violence in America that she narrated and produced.
Couric had billed the documentary as a balanced look at the gun debate in America, and argued that the film highlighted a “huge silent majority” of gun owners who actually supported the moderate gun control measures that the National Rifle Association rejected.
In a key moment of the film, Couric interviews a group of members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a group that views the NRA as “to the left of us” when it comes to gun rights, according to the VCDL president, Philip Van Cleave.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/31/katie-couric-apology-misleading-edit-under-the-gun
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