from huffingtonpost.com
Yikes - big goof by "Access Hollywood," with big pickup: turns out that Katie Couric did NOT say that she wouldn't go to the Middle East. Turns out that Access Hollywood took an old quote out of context, from May 30th regarding going to Iraq after Kimberly Dozier was critically injured in an IED attack.
Page Six reports that CBS News is "in a snit" about the faux quote and "bogus story," speculating that it was deliberate on the part of NBC-owned Access.
Access Hollywood, meanwhile, has corrected the quote and runs this statement:
"The comments from Katie Couric that earlier ran on AccessHollywood.com were from a previous interview on May 30th in regards to whether or not she would go to Iraq in light of injured CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier. The Web site story has since been clarified and includes more recent comments that were given by Couric in regards to the current Middle East crises at the CBS TCAs (Television Critics Association). "Access Hollywood" NEVER aired this story and regrets that the previous Web site story was misleading."
The run both the May 30th quote and a more lengthy July 16th quote where Couric said actually would consider going to a war zone: "I think it really depends on the situation and what's happening."
The correction is all well and good, but it remains to be seen whether the correction is picked up as widely as the original misquote. In other news, Jeff Jarvis thinks anchors are just teleprompter readers and look kinda silly in flak.
