Given the fact that NBC is involved with the joke of a cable TV network MSNBC (a network that would make Pyongyang TV seem reasonable), I cannot help but think that the Zimmerman “edit” was on purpose.
by Kerry Picket
NBC announced on Friday that the “seasoned” producer who edited sound of the 911 call between George Zimmerman and a 911 dispatcher was fired. The producer, who remains nameless, edited a video segment, which included the 911 call before Zimmerman shot and killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26. Zimmerman claimed self-defense.
However, the broadcasted 911 call is edited to make Zimmerman sound as if he is a racist. NBC’s Today show first broadcasted the edited version of the 911 call with the package suggesting that Zimmerman volunteered Martin’s race. “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
However, the portion of the tape that was deleted was the dispatcher’s question to Zimmerman about Martin’s race. The dispatcher asked Zimmerman if Martin was “black, white or Hispanic,” and Zimmerman responded, “He looks black.”
According to the New York Times:
NBC News has fired a producer who was involved in the production of a misleading segment about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. The person was fired on Thursday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the disciplinary action who declined to be identified discussing internal company matters. They also declined to name the fired producer. A spokeswoman for NBC News declined to comment. The action came in the wake of an internal investigation by NBC News into the production of the segment, which strung together audio clips in such a way that made George Zimmerman’s shooting of Mr. Martin sound racially motivated… On April 4, the network news division said in a statement that it deeply regretted the “error made in the production process.” “We will be taking the necessary steps to prevent this from happening in the future and apologize to our viewers,” the network said. It did not specify what steps it would take. But one day later it dismissed a Miami-based producer who had worked at NBC for several years. The people with direct knowledge of the firing characterized the misleading edit as a mistake, not a purposeful act.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time an edit or circumstance like this occurred at one of the NBC networks.
The Water Cooler blog reported In 2009, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews stated that the 911 caller who reported Harvard law professor and Obama friend Henry Gates to the police to be a racial profiler. This charge from Mr. Matthews turned out to be untrue. In fact, the 911 caller, Lucia Whalen, later described the racist accusations she received over Dr. Gates’s arrest. Mr. Matthews’s broadcast was likely no help to her circumstances at the time.
In 2009, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer criticized an Arizona tea party protester who was legally open carrying a firearm in his holster.
“A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.”
However, the video failed to show that the individual with the holstered firearms was black tea party protester.
Another egregious MSNBC “mistake” happened during a live 2002 broadcast. Conservative black activist and national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality Niger Innis appeared for an interview on the network. The lower third graphic had his name was misspelled with two “g’s” instead of one.
The on-air racial gaffe resulted in an apology from the MSNBC host (who is now with Fox News) an hour later and a statement from MSNBC spokesman Mark O’Connor:
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Read the rest – NBC’s ‘editing mistake follows a history of similar mistakes
Tags: Kerry Picket
There is no doubt in my mind that it was deliberate. I also suspect that the producer who was “fired” will be re-hired after this has had a little time to settle down. That is why they are refsing to release his or her name. That way no one can notice when they are re-hired. Yeah, I think NBC is that slimey.
The NYT did the same thing TWICE in print, one AFTER Edit-gate was exposed for what it was.
Solidarity.*spit*
@ Iron Fist:
Let’s think about this for a second.
A “news” producer whom edits a destructive distorted story and NOW is anonymous?? Say What!!! BULLSHIT!!!!
the public needs to BECOME outraged over this MSM bullshit.
The person must be exposed *period*
@ spinmore:
Brian Williams, perhaps?
@ Bumr50:
The ‘actor’ in bad faith is now PART of the story
PART OF THE STORY (get it)!!!!
@ spinmore:
i’m yelling -- but not at you 
@ spinmore:
#6 was meant for you
@ spinmore:
Not only do I think that whoever got “fired” had nothing to do with this clip, I’m not even sure anyone got “fired.”
@ Bumr50:
. . . for you
man i’m dangerous with a keyboard
@ spinmore:
It’s OK.
Deep breaths.
8)
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Bumr50 wrote:
that’s exactly why they can’t get away with this shit
(. . . feel a little better)
@ Iron Fist:
I don’t trust a one mass media outlet.
Maybe I am just achieving grouchy old guy status, but I follow many issues from multiple disparate sources and from opinions based from a broad base. When I see these same issues reported in the MFM, I am appalled by the coverage. Bias is obvious in as much as what is left out as in what aspects of a story are covered. I am often disappointed even by Fox by the questions asked in following a particular story.
Furthermore, I am irritated beyond measure when a big story does hit and all the media outlets cover the story 24/7 to the exclusion of all else, as if the world has stopped. Adding insult to injury the cover is often redundant offering nothing new and covering assinine aspects of the story just to fill air-time. It’s like the writers and producers throw a party in that they don’t have to come up with other content to fill air time and can take a break.
Bozell can be a condescending, sanctimonious ass at times, but he’s got a little pull.
If they can investigate NFL bounties and sports-related concussions, why not?
Bumr50 wrote:
If they are low enough to creatively edit a source to invent a narrative to fit their bias, why wouldn’t they fire a mythical employee for make believe damage control.
@ citizen_q:
Especially when they are keeping the name of said employee out of the news. What about said employee’s race? No one has raised the possibility of racism in this mis-editing, but I think that question needs to be asked now. There is no way this was accidental. One has to ask just what biases led to this, and what they thought to accomplish with it.
@ citizen_q:
. . . shouldn’t the FCC investigate this????
the ‘journalism’ crowd always claim special privelage, until they’re caught lying
i guess ‘the underlying story is still true’ ///
Bumr50 wrote:
. . . I’m on board with that. may actually contact a U.S. rep
@ spinmore:
Evan Thomas.
@ spinmore:
I will as well.
I’ll call Senator Toomey’s office, and fire out a “strongly worded letter.”
Iron Fist wrote:
good point.
Similar to their relying on paleosimians exclusively for reporting on Israel.
As egregious as media conduct is, I’m very squeamish about Congressional investigations thereof. Government oversight of the media? No thanks. This sets a precedent that’s scay as hell.
I do, however, think Zimmerman has a defamation case against NBC.
@ Bumr50:
ya know -- think about it . . .
if the “edit” were a ‘mistake’ Why did it have to be exposed??
If you screwed-up ‘the edit’ wouldn’t YOU the editor be the first to realize your own mis-characterization of the facts (as found on the 911 recording)? Wouldn’t you say -- hey wait a second folks.
Or let it go and wait for the streets to burn?? Seems like this needs to be stopped now and exposed for what it is.
@ MacDuff:
how about inciting a riot or some such charge???
spinmore wrote:
They always have been big believers in the meme of “fake, but accurate”.
@ MacDuff:
Agreed, he really should take legal action.
@ citizen_q:
The Chilean miner story from awhile back comes to mind.
@ PaladinPhil:
a number of years back, someone said that as the LambStream losses thier monopoly (more each year) they would not moderate but rather get more crazy and less inhibited. They were right
@ spinmore:
LameStream (not Lamb Stream) haha
@ citizen_q:
Yup!
spinmore wrote:
I’m no lawyer, but I think we already have laws on the books to handle such instances. We have a pretty free-wheeling view of the First Ammendment and the Left has already tried to limit that with “The Fairness Doctrine”. I really think this medicine is worse than the disease.
spinmore wrote:
@ lobo91:
Or how about the never ending story of the Titanic?
. . . is it me? Or -- Who gives a flyin F’k
When will it ever end? my god
@ spinmore:
LOL!
My wife eats it up.
Just yesterday I had to watch some idiots with a full scale simulator “re-create” the events…
The effing boat sinks. Every. Damn. Time.
spinmore wrote:
Or putting a bounty on their heads? /
In a similar vein
April 10, 2012
Zimmerman family challenges Holder on New Black Panthers, says no arrests ‘based solely on your race’
@ Bumr50:
Kind of like every six months when NBC obsesses on the Royals
*barf*
enough to drive you to drink
We have to understand that any sword we craft to battle the liberal media will be double-edged and will most certainly be wielded against the conservative media.
The First Ammendment is is the the most sacred of all of our rights and it’s the one that most effectively limits government power over the people. Let’s not f**k with it.
spinmore wrote:
MSN has a story up right now about famous cruise ship disasters in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking.
I wonder if anyone who works there realizes that the Titanic wasn’t a cruise ship (or would even know the difference)?
Fifth Column Treasonous Media… As I have said over and over again, my calling them this isn’t just hyperbolic rhetoric. Today it is NBC getting caught, but NBC is not even remotely close to being alone or isolated in these practices. This is not an exception to the rule, it is the rule and has been since even before Walter Cronkite made the claim that the Tet Offensive was a massive defeat for the US Military.
@ Bumr50:
Could be worse, you could have to attend a titanic themed party. I do.
@ spinmore:
I DID learn yesterday, however, that the captain was WAY past his prime, having rammed several ships into their docks previously.
He got away with them based solely on previous reputation.
@ MacDuff:
I agree 100%.
@ citizen_q:
Rent and wear a Star Trek outfit.
lobo91 wrote:
I’m sure they do, but since there aren’t any more Ocean Liners, how are they going to continue to feed off the Titanic story if they don’t take certain artistic liberties with the facts?
@ Bumr50:
I hope you get ‘that question’ on Jeopardy someday (lol)
then it’ll all be worth it
citizen_q wrote:
now that’s funny (LMAO)
@ Bumr50:
I was thinking maybe a shark fin.
spinmore wrote:
Father Timothy warned me that marriage was not all fun and games.
@ MacDuff:
@ lobo91:
Agree 200%
spinmore wrote:
I agree. Kansas City sucks year after year.
lobo91 wrote:
What are you guys talking about? We already have the worst possible outcome of the Government oversight you worry about. A Media that outright lies in support of the perceived majority party, is 100 percent in the tank for the Marxist-in-Chief, engages in Marxist propaganda and social engineering. How could it possible get any worse?
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
*rim-shot* ba-dump-bump!
Can someone tell me why the f**k that douchebag Shepard Smith s still on FNC?
@ doriangrey:
I’d rather not find out…
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
You know it can’t get any worse when even Pravda can’t believe the lies the Fifth Column Treasonous Media spouts.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Someone apparently likes him. He makes something like $8 million a year.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Ummm, representing America’s Homosexual minority via affirmative action?
doriangrey wrote:
Opp’s… I’m probably headed to a Reeducation camp for that one huh…
@ doriangrey:
:8 the ‘eye-popper’ cracks me up everytime
@ spinmore:
guess i forgot what i was taught
I wonder if this guy could sue NBC?
@ lobo91:
I thought Ole Miss paid him….
spinmore wrote:
ROTFLMAO… forgetting what one was once taught… Some people wonder why I refuse to admit which band I played for back in the 80′s. Watch this video, the older I get, the more I recognize how insanely stupid and embarrassing those video’s were. Nope… I am never going to admit to having ever been that young or stupid…
doriangrey wrote:
I’d say the QE II fits the basic description of an ocean liner in terms of it’s passages.
doriangrey wrote:
I’ll be the one sneaking a smoke behind the “Community Pavilion”…
spinmore wrote:
@ doriangrey:
sounds like a challenge>LOL
Stop the presses!!
WE’RE SAVED!!
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Mike C. wrote:
The QE II retired from service in 2008. The era of the Ocean Liner has past, the few that still survive exist out of a sense of nostalgia and little more, they have in fact become nothing more than ultra expensive cruise ships.
Bumr50 wrote:
You, me and a few others, who probably are smart enough to not admit in public that they still smoke…
Bumr50 wrote:
Did you look at that Uckin’ fugly “woman”???
Iron Fist wrote:
He will probably make a lateral move into another job at NBC.
Bumr50 wrote:
He ain’t got nothing on Bill O’Reilly.
MacDuff wrote:
Yes and yes on both paragraphs.
spinmore wrote:
God I am so sick of the fascination with the Titanic!
doriangrey wrote:
The Tet Offensive actually was a massive American military victory. It pretty much destroyed the Viet Cong as a fighting force.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
That is a question I have been pondering ever since 2005 and his awful coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Speranza wrote:
i’m wit ya -- we should start a club (lol)
@ Speranza:
I blame James Cameron.
I think they had a typo. Should say ‘was promoted’ instead of ‘was fired’
Speranza wrote:
Yes it was, and right up until Walter Cronkite claimed otherwise the Vietcong were negotiating their surrender. Walter Cronkite’s actions defined the Treasonous Nature of the Fifth Column Treasonous Media.
@ Speranza:
They will move him to MSNBC, watch.
Bumr50 wrote:
Yup.
I hate seeing it over and over.
doriangrey wrote:
My bad. Queen Mary II. Still books passages from A to B, one way. Only for the well-off who want to say they’ve done it, of course, but still to my mind fufilling the basic requirement. As opposed to a cruise that usually starts and ends in the same port.
Rodan wrote:
Exactly. They don’t like to dump one of their own unless it is Olbermann.
@ waldensianspirit:
They are not the Bush tax cuts -- they are the Bush tax rates.
Bumr50 wrote:
I blame George W. Bush and Halliburton.
Speranza wrote:
From that moment on, the North Vietnamese Army did the bulk of the fighting.
@ Speranza:
That’s exactly right. In Hue Phu Bai a single Marine
batallion dispatched a much larger enemy force,
that had the advantage of cover.
General Giap, the NVA commander addressed it in his memoirs.
He said that after their disastorous Tet Offensive, they were
prepared to sue for peace. But the US Media reporting it
as a U.S defeat, effecting public opinion gave them a morale
boost.
Cronkite knowingly lied.
Bumr50 wrote:
ROTFLMAO… reminds me of that joke, “Dude walks into a bar and sits down, an attractive liberal Blond woman walks up and sits down beside him. they are watching the news and chatting when a breaking news story come on, there is a man on a ledge of a building threatening to jump. The woman says, oh man I hope he doesn’t jump, the man says, bet you five dollars he does, the woman takes his bet, a few minuets later the man jumps, and the woman passes the man a five, the man says, honestly I can’t take this and passes the five back, I saw this story at 5pm. The woman passes the five back to him again and say… so did I, I just didn’t think he would jump a second time… The man then takes her Five dollars..”
1389AD wrote:
I saw it once and the best I could say was that it did not suck as much as I thought it would. There was zero chemistry between Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet.
1389AD wrote:
Yet it is useful to point young people who are into the Titanic story toward more history
@ waldensianspirit:
I always felt that the Lusitania Story (sunk by a German U-boat) three years later to be more compelling.
Mike C. wrote:
Except that QM II is technically classified as a Luxury Cruise Ship. Conard is still operating three ship that they classify as Luxury Cruise Ship, QE II, QM II and the Queen Victoria. Personally I think it is sad that the era of Ocean Liners has passed and that Cruise Ships have taken their place, but then I’m a bit of a Luddite in some respects, I also lament that there are no longer any Zeppelins roaming the skies and that the days of the Pullman Train Cars have past into history as well.
What those things represented was more than garish opulence, they represented a pride in quality and service that is disappearing from our world. Replaced instead by a standard of mediocrity where only the most basic of quality or service has become the accepted standard.
The Titanic was one of those stories that, had it not happened, you would have had to make it up. An “unsinkable” ship going down on he maiden voyage, the extraordinary number of deaths, the fact that the list of the dead was a veritable Who’s Who who of the Gilded Age, the stories of stoic heroism as well as cowardice, all made it the quintessential tale of man confronting disaster.
Hell, the story’s almost as big as James Cameron’s ego.
Alas, all great stories can be beat to death and 100 years after, maybe we can stop telling it ad nauseum.
@ Speranza:
This is a pretty good, factual tale.
@ Speranza:
Everyone hates Olbermann!
@ RIX:
Tet was one of the US Military’s most decisive victories.
Rodan wrote:
It was, a much smaller force of Marines defeated an enemy
with overwhelming numbers.
Rodan wrote:
Sounds like a new sitcom…
RIX wrote:
And yet, Uncle
JoesphWalter and his Marxist comrades, managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of overwhelming Victory. It was a feat of propaganda that would have turned Joesph Goebbels green with envy.Rodan wrote:
That’s because it is so easy to hate him.
@ MacDuff:
I made an important discovery watching Titanic.
Drinking a giant Diet Coke watching all of that
water is not a good idea.
I had to make a dash for the washroom & got lucky,
I did not miss the iceberg scene.
Bumr50 wrote:
I heard of Dr. Crippen.
@ lobo91:
That would be a funny sitcom.
Rodan wrote:
But who would watch it?
One good result of that last movie about the Titanic is that it made the band Gaelic Storm. If you saw that movie, you’ve heard them.
@ RIX:
Long time ago there was this bar I went to that threw out ice in the men’s room urinals. Not sure why, but I suppose it’s as good a place as any to discard old/unwanted ice. I used to pee on it and try to melt at least one cube completely in half. Improvised ice berg scene.
BuddyG wrote:
I have done the same thing. One tends to get creative with
urinal ice while drinking.
RIX wrote:
Somewhere in these confessions is no doubt the origins of the saying… boys will be boys…
New Thread.
@ doriangrey:
.
That is exactly right. By any objective measure it was
a significant US victory.
That fraud Cronkite wanted to turn it upside down & did.
The irony for the anti-war Cronkite is that his dishonesty
prolonged the war.
@ doriangrey:
We successfuly avoid maturity even while aging.
It is one of lifes mysteries.
RIX wrote:
He wasn’t anti-war. He was on the other side. He wanted his side to win. Which is where Obama is in Afghanistan when he says he doesn’t want us to win.
I find the term anti-war when dealing with the Left to be a misnomer. They support wars against the West and Israel and are against wars where their side (the Communists or Arabs) are getting beaten.
The Left supported the Nazis when Hitler attacked Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Greece and Yugoslavia. They turned against him when he attacked the USSR on June 22, 1941.
It’s not a mistake. It’s trying to frame the narrative from an institutional standpoint. The little guy can never get the narrative backed out after that. That is why zimmerman needs to sue for $$$ millions and make the media front page their apologies for a month. Every day.