Editing creates pace and emotion. The editor of this piece was trying to make the viewer feel unbalanced.
They inserted jump cuts, which are never used in TV journalism. That’s when an edit is made without the camera angle changing. That technique creates a feeling of uneasiness because it is jarring to the senses.
The rhythm of the edits were uneven , the camera angles were horrendous and the audio at times was cut off during some answers in a very jarring manner.
The producer and editor did everything in their power to present a disjointed and visually unflattering portrait of Palin.
Just compare the Palin interview to the free flowing, melodic nature of this Gibson interview with Barry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzecb7Qe6vo&feature=related
It’s incredibly easy to see the stark contrast in editing styles.
This was biased TV "journalism" at its absolute worst.
Editing has played a role in Presidential campaigns in the past.
One man, Don Hewitt, the former creator and producer of 60 Minutes, has been involved in two of those circumstances.
First, he produced the Nixon/Kennedy debates and according to this article, he would cut to Nixon when he was sweating or wiping his brow, in order to make Nixon look bad.
http://www.firstliberties.com/don_hewitt_bias.html
Then, there was the 60 Minutes interview with Billary after the Jennifer Flower’s story broke.
"Hewitt later bragged in an on-air interview that he got Bill Clinton elected..." (excerpt)
The Palin interview on ABC used editing to continue the left-wing MSM attack on Palin.
When you look at the footage strictly from a technical standpoint, the editing was so bad that a community access channel would have been embarrassed to put it on the air.
Therefore, by presenting such obviously manipulated rubbish, ABC cannot deny that it purposely edited the Palin interview in a manner that would portray her in a negative manner.
I've seen "guests" on "To Catch A Predator" portrayed in a better light.
Hopefully, most people were able to see through the Hollywood editing techniques and blatant bias.
I thought they were using jump cuts. I assumed that these were only used on the internet to keep the file size down.
Regardless, I thought she did very well.
Better yet film it ourselves and no edit replay if needed to refute thier version.
And establish that we will bring in our own film crew b4 the interview takes place or there will be no interview.
Not much chance of that. Most Americans are so poorly educated on media tricks that they have no idea what editing can do.
Wow, if a liberal like Kirsten Powers sees the blatant bias and editing then you know there is real problems with perception here. This hatchet job by ABC will blow up in there face, yet again.
I don’t like the chair to chair with no table format.
That said, it seemed when they had a side shot of both of them, they skewered the angle to prove unflattering to Palin. She seemed scrunched up...maybe my TV’s going but I saw clips on a couple of sets.
Something didn’t look right in those side shots of the two, the frontal ones were fine.
What?
I was off yesterday.
Look, you spend your days off the way you want to and I'll spend mine the way I want to.
Owl_Eagle
There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy
They also screwed up the analysis. On Good Morning America, they claimed Palin was “false” to say that throughout history other Veep candidates had not met foreign leaders. Then they said every living Veep had met a foreign leader, and that this would be the first time in 32 years that one hadn’t. So, apparently, Fritz Mondale hadn’t met a foreign leader before he was nominated in 1976, proving Palin’s point. Yet, ABC called it a lie.
Reminded me of a Simpson episode where Homer was edited REALLY badly. The marxist media continue to demonstrate why they are dying...thank God!
Free the Tape! Free the Tape!
Emotion. Emotion. Emotion. Emotion. Emotion.
I did not think it was possible, but so far Palin has neutered the liberal press.
My favorite part was when they were talking about how man’s actions might contribute to Gorebbel’s Warming and they cut to a standalone picture of the pipeline behind them.
Gee - not trying to send a subliminal message there are you? Do they think that intelligent Americans can’t see right through that sh!t?
Wonder if Kristen is a PUMA?
New and improved!
This is how they treat a woman on the very day she sent her eldest child to war.
By the way, did Charlie even thank her for that?
ping
“The producer and editor did everything in their power to present a disjointed and visually unflattering portrait of Palin. “
Despite their expensive and amazing effort, I think they miserably failed.