[a fool in paradise]

So only NBC had access to the tapes?

Or did their media brethren know and do nothing to point out the undisclosed redaction?

[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.