On May 3, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric had a brief interview with Mayor Mike Bloomberg in the “situation room.” In that interview, CBS so sliced up the cuts that it is impossible to tell whether or not Couric was leading Mayor Bloomberg in her responses or whether she was responding to a previous conversation that was omitted from the aired portion of the interview:
COURIC VOICE OVER: Law enforcement officials don’t know who left the Nissan Pathfinder behind, but at this point the Mayor believes the suspect acted alone.
BLOOMBERG: If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that-
COURIC: A homegrown…
BLOOMBERG: Homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.
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