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WTVJ Fires Reporter Jeff Burnside for Allegedly Editing Trayvon Martin 911 Tape
sfltv.com ^ | 4/25/12

Posted on 04/25/2012 7:58:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

You won’t hear it anywhere else but here – insiders have told us WTVJ reporter Jeff Burnside was fired last Friday for allegedly editing the Trayvon Martin 911 tape, the same tape NBC aired on ‘Today’ in early April. Allegedly, his firing wasn’t announced internally and so far there is no information whether NBC made a conclusion if the edit was misleading on purpose or if it was an oversight.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 911; allegedly; bias; burnside; deceit; editing; ethics; fired; fires; georgezimmerman; jeffburnside; journalism; mediabias; mediamalpractice; nbc; nbcnews; race; racebaiting; racism; reporter; skittles; tape; trayvon; trayvonmartin; wtvj; yellowjournalism; zimmerman
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George Zimmerman may have a case for a libel suit.
1 posted on 04/25/2012 7:58:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
site says: NBC launched an internal investigation immediately after the incident...

I recall the investigation being launched after someone else in the media blew a whistle.

2 posted on 04/25/2012 8:01:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

After this NBC should become ZBC.


3 posted on 04/25/2012 8:02:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh, I’m sure Jeff Burnside did this on his own without the knowledge or direction of anyone else at NBC...

yeah, that’s the ticket.


4 posted on 04/25/2012 8:04:53 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: SoFloFreeper

GeorgeZimmermanisinnocent.com


5 posted on 04/25/2012 8:05:36 AM PDT by cquiggy
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To: MrB

How’s your wife, Morgan Fairchild?


6 posted on 04/25/2012 8:05:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: dfwgator
so far there is no information whether NBC made a conclusion if the edit was misleading on purpose or if it was an oversight.

Oversight my Aunt Fannie...

7 posted on 04/25/2012 8:06:35 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
He's an on-air reporter, right? Do they usually edit their own videos?

He looks a bit like a Ted Baxter type to me.


8 posted on 04/25/2012 8:08:07 AM PDT by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: Lurker

I guess it took this long to negotiate the hush money. Burnside will live like a King.


9 posted on 04/25/2012 8:09:04 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: dfwgator

NBC, was, last I looked a fully owned subsidary of General Electric. GE should become ZE.


10 posted on 04/25/2012 8:09:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I believe Comcast now owns NBC
11 posted on 04/25/2012 8:11:18 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: lonevoice

OMG...is that him??? Bwwwaaaaahahahahahaha!


12 posted on 04/25/2012 8:11:47 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: lonevoice

"I'm FREE, and I like to be FREE!"


13 posted on 04/25/2012 8:13:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: MrB

so when does Jeff Burnside take over for George Stephanopolous on This Week?


14 posted on 04/25/2012 8:14:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lonevoice

Depends on the market, but I job shadowed once at a station, and yes the reporters edited their video. Network’s another story though, but this was just an affiliate.


15 posted on 04/25/2012 8:16:10 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: lonevoice
He's an on-air reporter, right? Do they usually edit their own videos?

No, they give detailed instructions to the editors where they want the cuts to be made. My nephew is a film and video editor who worked for CNN for a while. He recently quit his job at a local TV station. He got a better job with a film maker, but he also said he couldn't stand the news business anymore. He said that they're all on a mission to change the world.

He told me there is absolutely no way that the Zimmerman 911 tape was edited by mistake, and claims that it was are bald-faced lies.

16 posted on 04/25/2012 8:16:53 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (You mean we have a choice between M.R. and B.O.?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
so when does Jeff Burnside take over for George Stephanopolous on This Week?

LOL! What makes that comment so funny, is that it could really happen! What a funny bunch of monkeys the media has become.
17 posted on 04/25/2012 8:17:10 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: DAC21; lonevoice

They had to explain to him what “editing” was. That kind of thing can take some time.


18 posted on 04/25/2012 8:17:10 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Journalism gone mad. And in Burnside’s case, gone madly.

Ha. I crack myself up.


19 posted on 04/25/2012 8:22:23 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Reporters in the field sometimes do edit their own audio (not video) for a report. I work in media and have helped reporters edit audio.


20 posted on 04/25/2012 8:23:18 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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