Breaking: NBC Fires Producer Who Created False Zimmerman Audio

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[princeofdarkness]

Also with help from Brent Bozell and the MRC. He really started the ball rolling with this info.

[SpaceBar]

The edit in question was the deliberate removal of the dispatcher asking Zimmerman if he could identify the race of the perp, to which Zimmerman replies, “he looks black”. Without the dispatcher’s question, it gives the impression that Zimmerman was overly preoccupied with the perp’s race, not simply answering the dispatcher’s question, and significantly alters the “flavor” of the audio.

[Izzy Dunne]

Will they announce it on the air?

Will Brian W apologize to all his viewers?

[Cboldt]

-- So only NBC had access to the tapes? --

The recording of Zimmerman was made public by the town of Sanford on March 16th.

If you study media accounts of a "hot" or complicated subject, and compare them with the raw source material, you find that the news reports are rarely faithful to the facts.

[Nachum]

Not good enough. It is called obstruction of justice. People need to be prosecuted.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

In the meantime NBC stuffed a gigantic cherry bomb into race relations just like they did to that saddlebag gas tank to make it explode.

[null and void]

Mr. Hearst cabled him back and stated “Stay where you are. You provide the pictures, and I’ll provide the war.”

Modern update:”Stay where you are. You provide the sound bites, and I’ll provide the race war.”...

[Popman]

I’m actually surprised

[marygam]

Friday Night Dump!!!

[jimfree]

I am not a tv/radio professional; I am a listener. Anybody who claims this edit was inadvertent is a bloody moron or a liar of the highest order.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Release the name.

Remember the old standby, NBC, the “public has the right to know” ?

[hoosiermama]

NBC is most likely acting on the advice of lawyers trying to limit liability. Zimmerman should go after them if he can. They’re running scared legally IMHO.

BINGO!

[Keith in Iowa]

Brian Williams should be fired.

[matt1234]

Without a name, how can we verify that someone was actually fired? If NBC can fabricate lies from the Zimmerman 911 call, they can easily lie about firing somone.

[ptsal]

Joining Jesse Jackson’s staff on Monday... /sarcasm

[EyeGuy]

“Without the dispatcher’s question, it gives the impression that Zimmerman was overly preoccupied with the perp’s race...”

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I understand the point, but given the racial predilection of crime across the board, it is highly intelligent and relevant to note the race of any suspicious person(s).

[Cboldt]

-- I consider this a milestone event. First with Rathergate, and continuing now with this episode, it is becoming more and more clear that the Left cannot fabricate unanswered, lying propaganda any longer. --

They can manufacture fiction faster than an army of fact checkers can rebut it. And the rebuttals don;t get the same publicity as the original fiction does.

Not saying fact checking and calling them out isn't worth the effort, just saying that the strategy has to be to pick and choose which of the lies to go after.

The bigger bang, and it has been going on, and it will continue to go on, is to damage their reputation, so that people don't trust what they say. Then there is no need to check them.

CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC probably drew straws to figure out which of them would go with the version that got NBC is trouble.

[Seven plus One]

Did they fire this clown, or some convenient nobody? Nothing happens on that program without the exec. producer's OK. Miami staffers are not the responsible parties in national snafus.

[mabelkitty]

Not good enough.
Who is it?
Hope Zimmerman sues. This is Richard Jewel Part II.

[NoLibZone]

"The network is still refusing to release the name of the producer."

No one is being fired.

History teaches us that NBC lies.

Often.