Trayvon Martin call was "mistake, not deliberate": NBC

Reuters ^ | April 7, 2012 | Chris Francescani

[Free ThinkerNY]

(Reuters) - NBC News' decision to air an edited call from George Zimmerman to police in the moments before he shot Trayvon Martin was "a mistake and not a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call," according the president of network's news division.

The edit in question, which aired on the network's flagship "Today" morning show last week, made it appear that Zimmerman told police that Martin was black without being prompted, when, in fact, the full tape reveals that the neighborhood watch captain only did so when responding to a question posed by a dispatcher.

Under growing public pressure to explain the incident, NBC News President Steve Capus provided Reuters with the fullest explanation to date of how the edited call made it on air and what the network is doing to prevent such a consequential error from happening again.

[gigster]

Frank Zappa said it best.

What?: "Don't you eat that Yellow Snow"?

[Mister Da]

Yeah, & Jeffery Dahlmer ate my homework!

I have heard 6 year old children lie better!

NBC News President Steve Capus needs to be fired for being a poor liar! This man's inability to lie convincingly is a serious handicap for a propaganda organization.

They should have had Al Sharpton, an expert liar & beyond reproach as he is the same general color as Trayvon & Barack, give the explanation for the "accident".

[wiggen]

they worried. Obama loses FCC might come after them. This was blatant on their part.

[wiggen]

“Reverend Sharpton is a talk show host on MSNBC,” Capus said. “We believe there’s a distinction between the role he plays and our front line journalists who are part of NBC’s news gathering and reporting. This is a large news organization that has many people involved in any number of different aspects of coverage and commentary. That’s the distinction we’ve made as a news organization.””

Also known as we didn’t realize when we hired him we’d be afraid to fire him.

[trebb]

Just like the decision to send an incendiary into a Chevy pickuip truck to show us how much of a hazard they were was a istake. Once the foundation is rotten, the institution stays rotten.

[shoff]

“a mistake and not a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call,” according the president of network’s news division.

So the headline should read according to NBC standards

“A deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call,” according the president of network’s news division.

[SampleMan]

Then why “fire” the producer?

What they mean to say is, “It was a well thought out corporate decision and no minor player that did this.”

[sport]

Bullshit! Getting caught was an accident. Them not being able to wriggle out of it was an accident. That is as far as the “accidents” go.

[liberalh8ter]

I am opposed to excessive and overreaching legislation however, if I were a politician I would introduce legislation that would require that in any case where the media uses audio or video in a broadcast, they must divulge when they edit the audio or video and they must describe what has been edited out. If found to have edited without disclosure or without incorrect or inadequate disclosure, the editor, the newscaster, the network and the affiliate would all be subject to steep fines and sentences.

[Bon mots]

Did you notice the latest pic?

The above image demonstrates the FIFTH demonstrated doctoring of evidence by the MSM!

1. ALL of the MSM used a childhood photo of the black man juxtaposed with Zimmerman dressed in 'county orange'.
2. NBC News doctored the original 911 tape to portray Zimmerman as racist - claiming to later fire some unnamed producer when they were called upon this fraud
3. ABC News doctored a video to hide Zimmerman's injuries
4. CNN has now admitted that due to some 'enhancing' error, that Zimmerman did not use a racial slur at all... contrary to what they originally said when they were busy fanning the flames.
5. The above photo as it appears in the original mugshot and then as it appears on ABC News, where they have made him look more white by bleaching and narrowing the image.

With regard to the image above, it cannot be said that it happened somehow by accident. These are major news agencies with the best equipment and image manipulation skills on the planet. This is more deliberate manipulation of the news and associated images to create anger and promote a particular line of propaganda.

How many examples can you find of the MSM doctoring the news either by editing 911 calls, police video or official mugshots? Perhaps by their choice of language - E.G.→ Coining the phrase "White Hispanic"?

Perhaps editing the images of Trayvon to show him as a baby, young boy or even photoshopping him to make him look like a doe-eyed model?

[6SJ7]

As part of the investigation, the producer who edited the call was questioned extensively about motivation, and it was determined that the person had cut the video clip down to meet a maximum time requirement for the length of the segment - a common pressure in morning television - and inadvertently edited the call in a way that proved misleading.

My baloney has a first name, it's L-Y-I-N-G . My baloney has a second name, it's W-E-A-S-E-L. I hate to hear it every day, and if you ask me why I'll say 'cause NBC has a way with B-S all the way!

[InvisibleChurch]

oh, well never mind

[printhead]

I’m thinking more like “I’m the slime oozing out of your tv set”.

[expat2]

Bravo Sierrra, in spades.

[bestintxas]

Hate Crime

[Karliner]

9/11 accidently happened because ...ummm because. I call unhomoginized BS!

[doug from upland]

Congrats, Capus. You and the other networks have completely and irreparably tainted the jury pool, not just in Florida, but across the entire country. Zimmerman cannot get a fair trial and he is going to walk.

[doug from upland]

A mistake is the mother of Steve Capus forgetting her birth control.

[Leep]

NBC is either big fat liers or they are really stupid. I suspect they are big fat really stupid liers.

[Theodore R.]

The damage is done. The American people still favor the arrest, conviction, and long-term imprisonment of Zimmermann. They do follow “trends” and “momentum.”