Epix Fail: Streaming Service Pulls Couric’s Anti-Gun Documentary

 

According to gun rights activist John Lott and BearingArms.com, Epix, the streaming service behind Katie Couric’s Under the Gun documentary, has pulled the movie from circulation.

A quick glance at the film’s page on Epix shows the documentary is “Currently Not Playing On Epix”, a change in status from earlier today.

The film was heavily criticized for editing out key responses by gun rights activists regarding background checks, drawing the ire of mainstream outlets such as The Washington Post and National Public Radio for her actions.

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  1. Austin Murrey Inactive
    Austin Murrey
    @AustinMurrey

    Another wonderful pun in a title.

    I like this trend.

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  2. Kevin Creighton Contributor
    Kevin Creighton
    @KevinCreighton

    Oh, and one of the inventors of the AR-15 says that HBO distorted his views on what America’s most common rifle can and cannot do.

    If the case for “common sense” gun control is so strong, why do people have to lie so much in support of it?

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  3. Tim H. Inactive
    Tim H.
    @TimH

    Excellent.  Congratulations to all of those who have been digging in to the details of the documentary’s deceptive editing.

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  4. cdor Member
    cdor
    @cdor

    Who woulda thunk it, sweet little Katie Couric is a lying [redacted]. Goodness me, there must be evil everywhere.

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  5. Matt Upton Inactive
    Matt Upton
    @MattUpton

    It’s so satisfying for once to see a sham documentary given scrutiny and actual consequences for the responsible parties. Considering the torrent of criticism for the PP videos with full footage released by the filmmakers, this gun documentary deserved all the criticism it received and more.

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  6. Lazy_Millennial Inactive
    Lazy_Millennial
    @LazyMillennial

    Bad news: the documentary might not have been pulled, just moved from the premium window to the VOD window.

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  7. ctlaw Coolidge
    ctlaw
    @ctlaw

    If they did not pull it, they would have faced defamation lawsuits from the people falsely and maliciously shown dumbfounded…

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  8. Eeyore Member
    Eeyore
    @Eeyore

    I’m surprised they didn’t triple-down with the old “fake but accurate” from Ratherworld days. “Yes, it was deceptively edited, but gun zealots really don’t have any answers about what to do about the rampaging plague of gun violence…”

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  9. Kevin Creighton Contributor
    Kevin Creighton
    @KevinCreighton

    Lazy_Millennial:Bad news: the documentary might not have been pulled, just moved from the premium window to the VOD window.

    So the pre-arranged plan was to move an expensive documentary from premium into video on demand. That I might be able to buy, except that they did it at the same time they ran into problems with it being exposed as fundamentally untruthful.

    This is the streaming service equivalent of resigning to spend more time with your family.

    Not buying it.

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  10. Kevin Creighton Contributor
    Kevin Creighton
    @KevinCreighton

    I’m waiting for an Epix spokesperson to defend Katie’s “documentary” just like this…

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  11. EJHill Podcaster
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    @EJHill

    Epix statement:

    “We did not pull the [documentary] and there is nothing going on other than the distribution plan negotiated in January,” Nora Ryan told the Washington Examiner’s media desk Tuesday.

    “As of today, the doc moves out of the premium window – off of EPIX – and into a transactional and [electronic sell-through] window. This is part of the original agreement struck when we acquired the doc,” she added. “The distribution strategy allowed us to premiere the doc on the network and also preserve maximum value for the transactional VOD and EST windows that follow.”

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  12. DocJay Inactive
    DocJay
    @DocJay

    Too bad I can’t edit the inside of her colon video that went viral.

    People who cannot see that the dems goal is to disarm society don’t have a lot of vision.   Lying is just fine to the gun grabbers.

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  13. Kozak Member
    Kozak
    @Kozak

    She got Dan Rathered.

    aug-18-1973-memo

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  14. Doug Watt Member
    Doug Watt
    @DougWatt

    This type of nonsense has been going on a long time. There is a gun control advocacy group that skews the statistics on school shootings. If someone pulls in to a school parking lot at 2 AM and kills themselves with a gun they classify that as a school shooting. I’ve forgotten their name but other advocacy groups will at times use their stats.

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  15. Rightfromthestart Coolidge
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    @Rightfromthestart

    This is the just the one time she/they got caught ,how many other stories over all the years were edited in this way but there was no back up audio to expose it? This should call into question every ‘report’ she’s ever done.

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  16. Kozak Member
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    @Kozak

    Nowadays anyone who sits down for an interview with the press should be sure to video record the entire event with their own equipment.  That’s as simple as setting your iPhone on a little stand.  They are, and have always been slime when it comes to selective editing . We finally have the technology to try and counter it.

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  17. Kevin Creighton Contributor
    Kevin Creighton
    @KevinCreighton

    Lazy_Millennial:Bad news: the documentary might not have been pulled, just moved from the premium window to the VOD window.

    It’s pretty much disappeared now.

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