“incite to riot”
I had a similar reaction. The whole point of the video is “Oh, let’s see if this video shows any injuries to the back of Zimmerman’s head.”
Then I watch as they superimpose a bar across most of the screen, “coincidentally” blocking the man’s head thru most of the video.
What the hell is going on here!
I didn’t beleive it was on purpose until watching it. The bottom part of it is semi-transparent and is there for no purpose of all.
I remember watching the video and actually saying to myself, “why is that label so tall”. It is blocking the very thing I want to see in this video. I did get a nice view of the motorcycles though...
It had to be intentional. Ether that or they are incompetents over there at ABC.
Imagine them doing that during a live football game. The center and quarterback hidden by the station label. :-)
Instead of blocking Zimmerman’s head with that “ABCNews” banner, they should’ve used the “0bama” logo.
Kill 2 birds with one stone.
I’d watch the video, but those stupid commercials they run are a real turn-off. Sorry. I’ll take your word for it.
Yes
It's not just this video, it's the entire approach.
BTW, it's the Duke lacrosse deal all over again.
I’m a video guy and that was the first thing I noticed. The needless graphic was way higher than normal, there was nothing in the space below (which is reserved for text), and the graphic covered Zimmerman’s head for the majority of the time.
They want to use this as an excuse so they can say “Hey, we showed the graphic and you can’t see the wound.”
They think everyone is stupid. Sadly, they are right in some cases. All they want is their riot.
It wasn’t a mistake.
And the video didn’t matter, at that time, because the headline was the point they wanted to get out to the masses...
Not unlike MSNBC showing only the back of a guy carrying a gun at an Obama event in Arizona. Then the news people implied that this showed some racial concerns when you have (implied) white people showing up at an even of a black President with guns. Turns out the guy with the gun was black. MSNBC knew that, but intentionally hid this fact from their reporting. I put nothing past the state-run media in this country.
I have two other questions:
1. Watch the video from about :30. For a few seconds, you can see that there is a “trailer” “crawl” (I don’t know the technical term) at the bottom of the screen that appears to be the typical day,date and time label that usually appears on security camera footage. Why don’t we see this the whole time? Why does it wobble into view for a few seconds? My theory is that ABC didn’t want that shown because the time lapse since the shooting would give viewers a context for the video that was inconsistent with their agenda. If the video is presented as taken right after the alleged fight and shooting, the viewer is much more likely to conclude that there should be blood and other obvious signs of injury if Zimmerman (and the cops) are telling the truth. If the viewer knows the video is a number of hours later, he is a lot less likely to form the same skeptical view, because it is a lot less likely that the blood would just be left sitting there for hours.
Which leads to my second question: Why is the video so wobbly? From the angle, it appears to me that these are fixed/mounted cameras, positioned to get a wide angle capture of the secure areas. If so, the video should be very steady. The collateral question is, how was the tape that ABC showed made and/or how did they get their particular copy? It almost appears as if someone was given access to view, but not copy the recording. Using some form of hand-held video recorder (maybe even an I-phone or I-pad), the person took the video holding the equipment in his hand. When he got it back to the studio, they could crop the view to eliminate the crawl with the time and date, but they couldn’t edit out the wobble.
Your thoughts?
This is quickly reaching a stage where the media malfeasance/coverup is worse than the initial incident.
>>>Was this an on purpose “mistake?”
It’s part of the propaganda campaign to reelect Dear Leader. No accident.
Anyone who thinks ABC “News” presents any unbiased information is an idiot. After all, one of their prominent reporters is Georgie Stephanopoulos, chief apologist for an impeached rapist and rabid dimcratic operative.
At 1:04 of the video at the link, Zimmermann turns his back, lowers his head and one can easily see the spot of the wound that had been tended to and cleaned up.
Nice try ABC.