Posted on 04/22/2021 7:32:31 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe
Critics bashed "NBC Nightly News" Wednesday after the Peacock Network's flagship evening news program omitted key details from a report on the police-involved shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. Media Research Center news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro called out NBC News for editing out a portion of a frantic 911 call in which a woman is heard saying: "It's these grown girls over here trying to fight us, trying to stab us, get here now!" NBC did air a brief audio clip from the call in which the woman shouts, "We need a police officer here now!" Fondacaro also drew attention to the portion of the police bodycam footage shown by NBC, which he noted did not "show viewers the knife in the attacker's hand just before the shots." However, the segment did not hide the fact that Bryant had a knife. "A police officer shot and killed a 16-year-old Black girl in Columbus, Ohio saying she was threatening others with a knife," NBC anchor Lester Holt began the report. Throughout the report, a graphic at the bottom of the screen read, "POLICE FATALLY SHOOT 16-YEAR-OLD BLACK GIRL HOLDING KNIFE" and a still image from the bodycam footage showed a knife on the ground. As Fondacaro pointed out, however, ABC's "World News Tonight" and the "CBS Evening News" both aired the portion of the 911 call that included the stabbing reference and both zoomed in on the footage, showing more clearly that Bryant was holding a knife during the altercation. "NBC Nightly News" was slammed on social media in light of the stark comparison with the program's competitors.
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NBC sucks
I saw what the bodycam footage revealed the cop saved a life he should be treated as a hero family nods.
The media erases so many facts to pitch their dangerous agenda to bad so many view CNN MSNBC.................
Even 60 Minutes of lies gets high ratings it’s no wonder there are so many ignorant and stupid people voting.
RE: I saw what the bodycam footage revealed the cop saved a life he should be treated as a hero family nods.
Does anyone have footage of ANY media ( mainstream or alternative ) interviewing the INTENDED STABBING VICTIM?
I’d like to hear her side of the story.
NBC did the same thing with St. Skittles.
NBC news did not edit the 911 call. A person did. Who? We want names. Have they been fired? Of course not. Probably got a promotion and a raise.
They are being protected just like Babbit’s shooter.
Until we get names this will continue.
who is funding these lies? cable tv subscribers. purchasers of national name brands.
"Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister, gimme three steps toward the door. . . . " Lynard Skynard
The insanity is appalling. . . .
I’d like to hear her side of the story.
Agree bet no news media will show it and if they do wager it’s edited.
The media also only showed pictures of Trayvon when he was younger, smaller, and more innocent looking.
NBC consciously and unethically twisted the news into an anti-police pretzel.
Here is a pair of screenshots that tell the story. They offer visual proof that the girl in pink was a millisecond away from having her throat or body cut wide open.
The full force of Ma'Khia Bryant's considerable bodyweight is behind the final knife thrust as seen in the 2nd freeze-frame.
The officer's expert marksmanship saved a life milliseconds before that life would be terminated by an enraged Ma'Khia about to put her full 200 pounds behind the knife plunge.
[Lester the truth molester at it again.]
It’s what he do.
Just like Lyin’ Brian Williams did.
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