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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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1 posted on 03/30/2012 4:04:03 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

NBC? What is it?


2 posted on 03/30/2012 4:05:54 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Dallas59

NBC outright lied, read the transcript. It explains it.


3 posted on 03/30/2012 4:07:19 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The Rather Rule of Journalism: “Fake but accurate” doesn’t even apply in this case...


4 posted on 03/30/2012 4:08:08 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
They just played the video provided to them from the White Hut, from "Holder's People".

What's the surprise?

5 posted on 03/30/2012 4:09:47 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: bigbob

Go to the video. This an outright attempt to start a race riot. And it will not go well for the lynch mob it has created. NBC may be in really big trouble over this outright lie.


6 posted on 03/30/2012 4:10:07 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

It worked in the Rodney King beating (just showing King AFTER he attacked the cops). The jury that saw the whole tape cleared the cops, so the government had to over-ride the verdict with “civil rights violations”. The American Bolsheviks learned the lessons of Dr. Goebbels well (and put them into use EVERY DAY); there is nothing that you see in the media that has not been analyzed and produced for some intended purpose - every word out of a newscaster’s mouth has been carefully selected, every word and image in a commercial put there carefully.

I’ve been pointing out to my young children how commercials make men look stupid, then remind them that the television was made by a man, etc.


7 posted on 03/30/2012 4:10:10 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The more you watch the alphabet networks, the less you know about what is going on in the world. And the more you know that just isn’t so.


8 posted on 03/30/2012 4:10:30 PM PDT by marron
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To: bigbob
They just played the video provided to them from the White Hut, from "Holder's People".

What's the surprise?

9 posted on 03/30/2012 4:11:01 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Honestly each day goes by and i do not think i can get any more upset with the left......YET I DO!

I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THIS.


10 posted on 03/30/2012 4:11:50 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: marron

This is outrageous, nothing short.


11 posted on 03/30/2012 4:12:19 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

When this nonsense started a week ago all the race-baiters were squawking about Zimmerman saying”he’s black”, and they are still doing it. SO pathetic.


12 posted on 03/30/2012 4:13:29 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: ColdOne

This may wind up like another LA Riots scenario over this kind of yellow journalism. And hats off to FOX for leading the charge.


13 posted on 03/30/2012 4:14:07 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: moehoward

NBC, unavailabe for comment.........


14 posted on 03/30/2012 4:15:26 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

That is totally disgusting. And yes, they are trying to start a race riot because they know Obozo is going down in the election.


15 posted on 03/30/2012 4:15:38 PM PDT by dforest
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The maggots who edited that garbage should be charged with inciting riots. This is a disgrace. More lies from Barry’s state run propaganda machine.


16 posted on 03/30/2012 4:16:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to WEAN the government off of our money.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Dan Rather

Walter Duranty

Ron Allen

Etc

Tried and true tradition of pure propaganda


17 posted on 03/30/2012 4:17:00 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: dforest
Did you see the video? FOX is really on this. We can hope they take it to a new level and expose Obama, etc,.
18 posted on 03/30/2012 4:17:06 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Is Hannity an idiot?????????? In good conscience??????????? What a moron. He actually believes NBC is interested in the truth???????????? Their inciting a race war and race riots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a jackass. No wonder the GOP is FU!


19 posted on 03/30/2012 4:17:11 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Doc Savage

Sean Hannity is a good guy, but not the brightest bulb in the bunch..he still shows pictures of Trayvon Martin at age 10


20 posted on 03/30/2012 4:19:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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