It appears as though Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is ignoring her own advice by “leaning out,” of a highly anticipated television interview with ABC News.
New York Post reports:
After many significant days of silence, the Facebook COO was quizzed by “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie on Friday, followed by an interview with Fox News’ Dana Perino. Sandberg was next due for a sit-down on ABC’s Sunday show “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” as she and CEO Mark Zuckerberg scramble to subdue the social- media scandal.
But, according to TV insiders, when “Lean In” author Sandberg learned she would be quizzed by trailblazing journalist Martha Raddatz, and not ABC News star Stephanopoulos, the Facebook doyenne demurred. […]
No-nonsense Raddatz, who has reported from Iraq and the White House for ABC, famously wasn’t lured by “Lean In,” saying at a 2014 forum that women should not feel pressure to “have it all.”
An ABC insider claimed to Emily Smith of the New York Post that, “Sheryl’s team were talking to producers at ‘This Week.’ After they were told the interview would be with Martha, not George, the discussions ended.”
“Sheryl has a good relationship with George, but the decision not to proceed appeared to be based largely on that Sheryl wouldn’t be sitting with the biggest name on the show . . . not that she anticipated George would give her a sympathetic interview,” the insider added.
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