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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: joseffy who wrote (131656)4/8/2012 3:02:55 AM
From: Bilow2 Recommendations  Read Replies (5) of 132070
 
Hi joseffy; Re the NBC version of the Zimmerman tape.

Clearly if their brains had been turned on they'd have known that editing the tape that way would get them into a lot of trouble. And NBC did come down pretty hard on someone they held responsible. So I don't think that the people who did it, did it deliberately (that is, in order to amplify racial conflict, or to get Zimmerman into trouble or whatever). This is not an example of a well prepared biased report. It's a complete disaster for the people who made it. Instead, I think that they shortened the segment for the simple reason that they gave, to make it shorter.

I think their bias shows not in their motivation for shortening the tape in a biased manner, but in the fact that they didn't immediately realize that by shortening the tape in this way, they were biasing their broadcast. Their bias was in (internally) concluding racism from the evidence available. For them, (at least before they gave it any thought) their broadcast simply showed the evidence that was plainly obvious from the totality of all the evidence. Why else would a "white" person shoot an unarmed black person?

It's incredibly difficult for people to set aside their own opinions and look at things from an even perspective. And the news media is very left wing. So it's natural that they get into this sort of trouble. It's impossible to expect to get unbiased news from an organization which has hired personnel all with matching biases. This is true even when the biased people are not deliberately biasing their reports.

-- Carl
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