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NBC News Accused of Editing 911 Call in Trayvon Martin Controversy (Video)
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 12:28 PM PDT 3/30/ | Paul Bond

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lies; media; nbc; trayvonmartin
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Nope - the dispatcher did NOT ask, ‘what does he look like?’

The dispatcher said, “Okay. And this guy, is he white black or Hispanic?”

21 posted on 03/30/2012 4:19:33 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Well, this article is a start, but how about Martin’s background and a current picture?


22 posted on 03/30/2012 4:20:24 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

bump


23 posted on 03/30/2012 4:20:33 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (The Democrat Ku Klux Klan is alive and well as the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus)
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To: Ron C.

I wonder why they didn’t ask if he was a white hispanic.


24 posted on 03/30/2012 4:21:16 PM PDT by beandog (Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

[Sean Hannity is a good guy, but not the brightest bulb in the bunch..]

LOL! I was thinking the same thing.....


25 posted on 03/30/2012 4:22:55 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Thanks FRiend....


26 posted on 03/30/2012 4:23:31 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: beandog

Since they all wear hoodies these days, you know the gang thingie.......hard to tell.


27 posted on 03/30/2012 4:24:47 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

bump


28 posted on 03/30/2012 4:24:52 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (The Democrat Ku Klux Klan is alive and well as the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus)
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To: beandog
LOL

THAT (I don't think) has ever been used before - it is moronic - but used SPECIFICALLY to help start race-riots.

29 posted on 03/30/2012 4:24:59 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: Ron C.

After the dispatcher asked George if he was white, black or Hispanic, George said he wasn’t sure. He identified him as black when Trayvon turned around and was walking toward him to check him out.

We have to keep in mind it was raining and fairly dark out.

If I remember right, that was just prior to when George said that the guy was running.


30 posted on 03/30/2012 4:26:38 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Ron C.

I will certainly do that. Like the Rodney King riots.

And this sure took the heat off of Rush Limbaugh in a hurry.


31 posted on 03/30/2012 4:27:50 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Dallas59
This cannot be true.........Tom Brokaw has told us repeatedly that NBC is not biased.........repeatedly.......

What say you about this, Tom?

8:}

32 posted on 03/30/2012 4:29:34 PM PDT by AwesomePossum (I have never looked this forward to a November II........)
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To: beandog

I have a conservative Hispanic co-worker. I asked them if they have heard the term “white Hispanic.” They never did until the MSM used it.


33 posted on 03/30/2012 4:29:42 PM PDT by matt04
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Typical liberal lawyers, they are criminals.

This is bearing false witness and inciting riots along with Sharpton.

Some one arrest these people, but we are a nation of wusses with a government we wonder why we pay for Law Enforcement.


34 posted on 03/30/2012 4:30:10 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: AwesomePossum
NBC should lose their broadcasters license for an offense like this. This kind of malicious intent, will cause people to die.
35 posted on 03/30/2012 4:31:09 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: JudgemAll

I am truly glad I live way out in the sticks, back in the Big Minnesota lake country and woods, where the population is about 5 per square mile. The bear and deer are a bigger problem than the people here.


36 posted on 03/30/2012 4:34:17 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

It won’t be the first time. They lost a boatload on their biased reporting of the Atlanta Olympics bomber (or so they implied)


37 posted on 03/30/2012 4:34:58 PM PDT by Figment
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
N o
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38 posted on 03/30/2012 4:35:42 PM PDT by tomkat ( FU baraq !)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
NBC? Faking news?

You'd think that a goggle and bing search would find what I was looking for when my criteria was: nbc dateline cherry bomb chevrolet pickup gas tank

But no. At least not on the first page of results. Though Bing found a blog reader's comment with a vague reference to that infamous fake "investigation."

To be fair, NBC just knew that the Chevy pick up's saddle gas tanks would explode but they couldn't make it happen and there was this deadline.. see and so they just helped it along with a cherry bomb . . . .

39 posted on 03/30/2012 4:37:52 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

It took a while for this one to erupt. Good to have our side looking out for our interests.


40 posted on 03/30/2012 4:40:34 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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