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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.
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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: CatherineofAragon
The changes at FOX are unwatchable. “The 5” (liberals) and even Hannity is not tolerable.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:49:16 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:49:37 PM PDT
by
wolficatZ
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Accused? That makes it sound as if we have to investigate whether or not it happened.
They did it. It’s right there in B&W for all to see. Don’t need Sherlock Holmes.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:49:46 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:50:46 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: kcvl
Liberals in La,La Land. They get so rewarded for their evil life style.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:52:02 PM PDT
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PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: Chunga
Source, please. 
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:53:00 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!)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
“This isn’t bias, this isn’t distortion, this is an all-out falsehood by NBC News “This isn’t bias, this isn’t distortion, this is an all-out falsehood by the entire Liberal establishment. Faking it every day!
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:53:37 PM PDT
by
alrea
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
I agree. I must be turning into a curmudgeon at 49....when Hannity throws that damn football, I want to scream.
“You’re a great American!”.
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Maybe NBC will put explosives in someone’s fuel tank
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:54:33 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Right Wing Assault
No accountability either. They keep doing it and know they will get away with it and the stupid public will never know that NBC got called on their lies. They still think the original broadcast was gospel.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:54:43 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
On Facebook was a hysterical post with a link to a CNN video lamenting the police tape wherein George Martin says, "f---ing (racial slur)"--yet this is assuredly a forged overdub of the official tape in which the remark appears at 2:18 and is clearly "f---ing punks"--repeated listening with headphones confirms this. CNN which has made an issue of wailing over "massacres of innocents" by Israelis or U.S. troops has honed its multimedia propaganda.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:57:31 PM PDT
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PhilDragoo
(Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
Your search was too specific. If you search “nbc dateline chevrolet pickup gas tank” (no “cherry bomb”) the story comes up right away. In fact all ten on the first page refer to the story.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:57:56 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: GeronL
LOL! Common! this is NBC here, they would never do such a thing!
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:57:56 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
lol.
It would probably be a Ford this time.
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posted on
03/30/2012 5:59:59 PM PDT
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GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: PhilDragoo
Thanks for pointing that out. I did not know that. I will look into it further.
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:01:17 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: GeronL
LOL, No kidding! So, you think the Volt is safe? They only burn peoples’ houses down. No biggie there!
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:02:57 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: Right Wing Assault
Thank you. I was ready to question google’s and bing’s ethics.
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:05:41 PM PDT
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WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
This thing is just starting to get interesting.
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:10:36 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
NBC News... Aren’t they the ones who once dynamited a pickup truck to show what might happen in a side collision?
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:15:06 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
To: traditional1
[They just played the video provided to them from the White Hut, from “Holder’s People”.]
This is incredible......
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posted on
03/30/2012 6:15:36 PM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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