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TV Editor Fired For Doctoring Video Of Trump’s Border Speech
Hotair ^
| 01/10/2019
| John Sexton
Posted on 01/10/2019 2:07:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind

An editor at a Seattle Fox affiliate was fired today after he was found to have doctored a portion of President Trump’s border speech which aired on the station. From My Northwest:
A listener to my program sent me a video that appears to show a deceptively edited video of President Trumps speech from the Oval Office. We performed a side-by-side comparison of the video from our listener, apparently taken by a smart phone recording of Q13, to the raw video of Trumps speech from CNN.
That comparison revealed the Q13 video creating a loop of the President licking his lips making it seem bizarre and unbalanced it also seems that someone distorted the Presidents face and may have added an orange tone to his skin.
The coloration in the clip below is immediately obvious. Near the end, you’ll see the video has been slowed and reversed so Trump appears to be playing with his tongue. The irony is that this comes just as Trump is saying, “Hopefully, we can rise above partisan politics in order to support national security.” Obviously, this editor could not do that.
This is the sort of thing you expect from some of the left-wing hosts of late night talk shows but this person obviously doesn’t belong at a news station. The Seattle Times reports he was fired after an internal review:
This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light, Q13 news director Erica Hill wrote in an emailed statement early Thursday.
Later Thursday morning, Hill released another statement saying, Weve completed our investigation into this incident and determined that the actions were the result of an individual editor whose employment has been terminated.
It does seem a little odd that no one at the station was aware of this until someone raised the issue. The edit to the video goes by fairly quickly so I could see someone missing it, but was there no one who thought it strange that Trump was bright orange? It makes me wonder if other people at the station were in on the joke or tacitly allowing it.
Finally, just yesterday I wrote about the push on the left to stop giving Trump live airtime on television. Instead, some are arguing that Trump’s speeches and press availabilities should be aired on a delay (if at all) so they can be properly contextualized. Needless to say, this clip took some time to edit and the Seattle Times says it was “shown later on Q13.” Granted, it’s an extreme example of what can go wrong when the media decides to place itself between the president and the people. Not everyone is going to give in to partisan anger as this editor did, but some will. It may not be visual, it could just be by leaving his best lines or strongest points on the cutting room floor. But consider the bright orange skin tone on the right a symbol for the kind of biased filtering the media wants all of Trump’s statements to pass through. I don’t think the media deserves that sort of power. It only seems to invite more partisan misbehavior.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: borderwall; buildthefence; daca; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; dreamact; dreamers; editor; fox; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; q13; seattle; smearmachine; tv; washington
To: SeekAndFind
Good....about time they are called out and fired for #fakenews
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:08:57 PM PST
by
blueyon
(The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
To: SeekAndFind
I saw that on Sarah Palin's instagram.
Just WOW!
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:09:56 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
To: SeekAndFind
It’s time to start pulling some FCC licenses. Broadcasters are allowed exclusive use of portions of the public spectrum as they serve a useful purpose (informing the public of the facts). When that purpose is no longer being served (such as when they intentionally distort the news), then the license needs to be pulled and that bandwidth needs to be released
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:13:43 PM PST
by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: SeekAndFind
How do we know anyone has been fired?
No name has been released of this video editor.
I’m calling this more Fake News until proven otherwise.
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:17:20 PM PST
by
bkopto
To: bkopto
Good insight.
Might just get moved to a ‘sister station’ if anything at all.
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:18:52 PM PST
by
jjotto
(Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
To: SeekAndFind
No name of the person allegedly fired. The station is probably lying.
To: SeekAndFind
Theyve been making him orange from day one, including FEUX. This editing is ice on the cake. Look, not a damned thing is ever going to happen because the Democrats have perfected stolen elections and deep state blackmail. Time fo rise up. That is all.
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:22:43 PM PST
by
Dogbert41
(When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
To: SeekAndFind
He’ll probably be hired by CNN.
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:28:58 PM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: bkopto
He got promoted to a USFS job studying lynx hair for environmentalists.
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:33:02 PM PST
by
Cold Heart
(The main purpose of The Wall is to protect the US from its own politicians.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:33:58 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
To: SeekAndFind
Dude’s probably already on the job for someone else in Seattle. No biggie for him, in fact a badge of honor that he can brag about when they all meet for cocktails and dope.
He’ll impress chicks with it.
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posted on
01/10/2019 2:47:25 PM PST
by
OKSooner
(Whatever happened to, "The midterms are safe."?)
To: SeekAndFind
Good!! You lie, you get FIRED..
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:02:05 PM PST
by
ConservaTeen
(Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
To: Flick Lives
I could imagine that they fired .. someone.
Someone had to be sacrificed.
But the thing is that we HERE know that he wasn’t alone.
We know that there was a team surrounding the tech, cheering him on. We know that the station wanted this.
They probably fired an intern.
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:07:33 PM PST
by
Celerity
To: SeekAndFind
"An editor at a Seattle Fox affiliate was fired today..." Wiithout a name it's just a claim.
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:11:21 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: SeekAndFind
I know very well that it is an impossibility to prove BUT imagine the SCREAMS if a conservative film editor (does such a creature exist?) did such an action on President Obama! Then further imagine the apoplectic outrage of the LEFT if, at the same time, the ‘right’ move to limit live airtime on television for Obama.
It is always instructive to visualize the same actions with the opposite players. The LEFT is totally without any appreciation of a ‘quid pro quo’ in comparing their actions versus what they ‘feel’ as social justice! This is why they very much remind me of a 3 year old having a tantrum!
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:20:59 PM PST
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: SES1066
Hotair links to Seattle Times re the firing...but they use the story for their own political purposes, including stuff like:
And this isnt the first time a doctored video has made headlines.
CNN reporter Jim Acostas access to the White House was temporarily suspended in November when Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Acosta put his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern. Sanders tweeted a video snippet that appeared to show Acosta chopping the interns arm with his hand as she tried to take the microphone from him. But analysis by fact checkers and researchers noted that the version Sanders tweeted had been altered to distort and exaggerate Acostas movements...
Last year, a video of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez ripping a copy of the U.S. Constitution whipped conservatives into a froth. Gonzalez never did such a thing...
In 2010, the Economist got into trouble for altering a photo to remove people standing on a beach with former President Barack Obama....
BURY THE FAKENEWSMSM.
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:30:06 PM PST
by
MAGAthon
To: MAGAthon
Q13 staffer fired after airing altered Trump video on station
SeattlePI also brings up Gonzalez:
In the video, Trump let his tongue hang out for an unusually long amount of time
By Zosha Millman, SeattlePI
These sorts of forgeries are known as “deepfakes,” and can range from political applications (the Trump video, or altering a photo of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez)...
https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Q13-staffer-fired-Trump-video-deepfake-promo-13524004.php
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:31:06 PM PST
by
MAGAthon
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
It does seem a little odd that no one at the station was aware of this until someone raised the issue. The edit to the video goes by fairly quickly so I could see someone missing it, but was there no one who thought it strange that Trump was bright orange? It makes me wonder if other people at the station were in on the joke or tacitly allowing it.
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posted on
01/10/2019 3:40:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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