Page Six has the skinny on how Access Hollywood’s website recently published a quote from Katie Couric that made it sound as if she wouldn’t travel to the Middle East to report:
Earlier this week, the NBC-owned celebrity news
show’s Web site stated: "Katie Couric, who takes over the ‘CBS Evening
News’ in September, told ‘Access Hollywood’ that at this point, she
would not venture into the Middle East hot spot. ‘I think the situation
there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that’s
something I won’t be doing,’ Katie said."
That comment was
widely reported yesterday, including on Page Six. But it turns out to
be an old quote that "Access Hollywood" took out of context. In a
clarification, a spokeswoman for the show said Couric’s remarks "were
from a previous interview on May 30 in regards to whether or not she
would go to Iraq in light of injured CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier."
Access Hollywood has now corrected the story, saying:
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.
