How Crooked Can NBC Get?
The George Zimmerman 911 scandal is now being called Editgate, and NBC News is acting accordingly
4/10/2012 by Jim Treacher
dailycaller.com
Which is to say: sneaky.
If you need to catch up on this story, click here. And then check out the latest from Tom Maguire, who has been all over this:
NBC is busy taking down the evidence of its repeated usage of its bogus edit of the George Zimmerman 911 call… Yesterday the discovery by Les Jones of two similar bad edits at NBC 6 Miami for stories from March 19 and March 20 were widely broadcast by the InstaPundit. As of this writing, those stories have been “fixed” by the web editors to eliminate the troublesome passages (and are marked as updated April 9; the specific update is unexplained)…
So, it seems to be a bit of a race – can NBC sweep this down the memory hole before the crowd notices?
Too late. Read the whole thing for details. As I just asked NBC Miami Today Executive Producer Tammy Delgado:
'Jim' 'Treacher'@jtLOL Good morning, @tvtams. Why is @NBCMiami deleting evidence of the deceptive George Zimmerman 911 edit? bit.ly/IAhkTt @brianstelter 10 Apr 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite I included Brian Stelter at the NYT, since he’s the only one there who seems to be interested in this story. And why would they be? It’s interfering with the narrative.
Speaking of NBC’s sneakiness and dishonesty, they keep insisting that this unnamed producer who was allegedly fired for his or her “mistake,” and all the other NBC employees who “missed” it, just made a whoopsie. They didn’t mean anything by it, honest.
Just look how easy it is to make that “mistake”:
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I’m glad NBC is handling this so poorly. It would be disappointing if they started being honest and professional.
Update: Speaking of media unprofessionalism, yet another news outlet is trying to cover up yet another aspect of the Trayvon Martin story that they’ve screwed up:
NY Daily News whitewashes its Sanford neo-Nazi faux pas.
Update: A response to one of my questions yesterday to NBC Miami’s Christina Hernandez: 'Jim' 'Treacher'@jtLOL 9 Apr 12 .@jeffburnside & @ChristinaTVNews: Why did you quote George Zimmerman as saying, "This guy looks like he's up to no good... He looks black"?
Christina Hernandez@ChristinaTVNews @jtLOL That's the way the 911 calls were given to us. It was an NBC issue, not NBC 6 issue, but we fixed it on our end after we found out. 10 Apr 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
So now NBC Miami is blaming NBC News proper. Stay tuned.
Update:
'Jim' 'Treacher'@jtLOL 10 Apr 12 @ChristinaTVNews Interesting. Who gave the 911 calls to you that way? Christina Hernandez@ChristinaTVNews @jtLOL NBC (national) that's how most of the affiliates ended up with the exact same thing and never knew till the editing story came out. |
