It’s an editing technique used to add drama, tension or awkwardness to a situation, and Katie Couric’s recent Under the Gun documentary has been caught out.
I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my initial concerns more vigorously.”
There is then an apparent eight-second delay before they respond – except audio recordings have revealed that they, in fact, responded straight away.
On the website for the documentary, famed presenter Katie Couric issued a mea culpa.