Posted on 03/30/2012 4:03:59 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
Edited on 03/30/2012 4:12:00 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NBC News is being excoriated in some circles – with competitor Fox News Channel leading the charge – for selectively editing audio of the 911 call placed by George Zimmerman just before he killed Trayvon Martin.
The NBC segment in question featured anchor Ron Allen and ran on the Today show on Tuesday. On Thursday, Sean Hannity and guest Brent Bozell played the NBC version of the 911 call and compared it with the unedited version.
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In the NBC segment, Zimmerman says: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
The full version, though, unfolds like this:
Zimmerman: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.”
911 operator: “Okay. And this guy, is he white black or Hispanic?”
Zimmerman: “He looks black.”
After playing both versions, Hannity said: “They forgot the dispatcher’s question! How could NBC, in good conscience, do that?”
“This isn’t bias, this isn’t distortion, this is an all-out falsehood by NBC News,” answers Bozell, who runs a conservative watchdog group called the Media Research Center.
“When you hear him say, ‘he looks black,’ anyone watching that believes that there are racial overtones to what this man did,” Bozell says. “How could you not believe that? It goes with the narrative of the profiling. The only problem is, they edited out the dispatcher asking him, ‘what does he look like?’”
NBC News declined to comment.
NBC, Nothing But Commies...
We should expect many more diversions in swing states like Florida as we get closer to November...anything to divert mindless votr’s attention away from the economy, unemploment, gas prices, etc.
This whole media circus is nothing but a diversion. How do we battle it?????
Don’t worry; an increasing number of those commercials are obvious hoaxes from what “Americans see on the ground”; we are learning in the US to kill all of you anyway because you don’t count.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
I was following your lead.....
I couldn’t imagine who they think will buy their products with that nonsense; who is the market when commercials insult people like that?
Asking for a source is posting horseshit?
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