Stop with the robotronic litany of a non-difference. Excerpting is a part of editing. Any excerpt is an extract edited out of a bigger piece.
excerpt : to select (a passage) for quoting
edit : to assemble (as a moving picture or tape recording) by cutting and rearranging
Words mean something and they DO make a difference.
As a person who has worked in film and video, I don’t agree.
An experpt is a section that remains unaltered. Something that has been editied has been changed — they have taken awsay something someone said, or even inserted something that was not in the original piece.
I was once interviewed for a t.v. news piece, and I refuted what someone else had said. To refute them, I had to say what they said, so imagine that I said: “Mr Smith is completely wrong when he wrote ‘Socialism is the solution to all our problems’ because socialism destroys iniaitive and (etc. etc.) and then what comes out on TV is me saying “socialsm is the answer to all our problems” and nothing else in that train of thought. So it looks as if I am saying what was said by Mr Smith. Now, that is editing.
Find a leftist article/column where the writer says the tape was ‘excerpted’ and not ‘edited’.....good luck.....
There is absolutely a difference between editing and excerpting. A major difference, in fact, when you're implying manipulation of the original.