“This was an unnecessary mistake,”
Unlike all the “necessary” mistakes they normally make.
“It did not represent editing someone’s sentences, there was no factual error, this is not a mistake that is a substantive mistake.”
More mis-direction. The pause was not an accident, it was intentional and purposely misleading in order to make the interviewees look bad.
” It could have been avoided,”
But they didnt want to.
That's exactly right.
NBC edited what actually happened (the truth) to make it appear as if Couric achieved a "mic drop" victory over the heartless hapless dolts opposing her political agenda.
NBC basically denies a mistake was made and pretends to apologize to any who were offended by their lies.