Members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) have sued producer Katie Couric and director Stephanie Soechtig for $12 million after an edit in their movie Under the Gun showed members could not answer a question.
“Katie Couric has publicly admitted that the film, which was presented to VCDL as a ‘documentary,’ was misleading and misrepresented VCDL,” Phillip Van Cleave, President of the VCDL, tod FOXNews.com. “However, Couric and the other filmmakers have refused to fix the film or to even stop promoting and distributing it. The only way to hold Couric accountable was to file a lawsuit.”
Here is the clip:
The group gave the full clip to Stephen Gutowski at Washington Free Beacon:
The interaction actually took place for four minutes.
Couric eventually accepted blame for the deceptive edit. Soechtig apologized for her behavior and admitted she made the edit.
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