LOS ANGELES: Sending a jolt through a luxurious and excessively polite afternoon in Beverly Hills, veteran journalist Katie Couric delivered a relentless series of hardball questions to Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Oct 22.
Speaking in conversation at the sixth annual Vanity Fair New Establishment summit at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Couric's agenda for the panel, titled Putting a Best Facebook Forward, was unlike its predecessors, which mostly featured jokes about wealth taxes in between sips from mint-infused glass water canteens.