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To: Bilow who wrote (131657)	4/8/2012 3:55:53 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

Nameless Scapegoat Watch: By Mickey Kaus 4/8/2012 dailycaller.com 1) WaPo‘s Erik Wemple wonders why NBC didn’t quickly come clean about its so-bad-it-seems-intentional mis-edit of the Zimmerman 911 call. Why not immediately “go into detail on exactly what had happened and what disciplinary measures would be taken”? I suspect the answer has something to do with the possibility of a libel suit from Zimmerman. As JustOneMinute‘s Tom Maguire reminded me, when you publish something so bad you face a giant adverse defamation verdict–well that’s exactly when you try not to fire the reporter or editor responsible. If you fire them, they’re likely to cut a separate deal with the plaintiff and testify in court about how sloppy your editorial practices were, how you had it in for plaintiff all along, etc. You keep the reporter close, however incompetent they’ve proven to be. You can fire them later. Like other tort laws, libel laws are in practice the enemy of transparency. … 2) How long will the now-fired Nameless Scapegoat editor remain nameless? Not long, I’d guess. … Also, did NBC offer a can-we-still-be-friends monetary… cushion along with the dismissal? … 3) In this case, I suspect the N.S. might have some valuable information to offer a plaintiff’s lawyer. Like how maybe there was a surge of enthusiasm at, yes, the highest levels of NBC News for turning this story into a clear cut emotional morality play (fueled by trendy social media!) and riding it to higher ratings for days, if not weeks. If you go to the March 20 Nightly News broadcast (available here) you can see NBC’s Ron Allen letting viewers imagine the racial epithet Zimmerman used for the man he was following. Oh, wait. … The N.S. was reportedly a “seasoned” producer. Seasoned producers (and reporters) know what the bosses want. …

To: Bilow who wrote (131657)	4/8/2012 4:51:31 AM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Respond to of 132070

THE most divisive president in US history. Dividing Americans by race, income, gender.

To: Bilow who wrote (131657)	4/8/2012 10:22:21 AM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Respond to of 132070

they did in on purpose, being so arrogant and they figured the other lib networks would cover for them. They just don't realize how strong the internet and bloggers are. Look at Dan Rather and his slime on Bush with that fake fax. We needed the internet when Clinton was President to expose all his lies. Hell we needed it when Cronkite was lying to Americans every night

To: Bilow who wrote (131657)	4/8/2012 12:04:21 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

NBC's Nameless Scapegoat Raises More Questions by John Nolte Like Rathergate, Edit-Gate is a New Media-driven story pushed so hard (including here at the Bigs) that the mainstream media can no longer ignore it. The result has been some action on the part of NBC News, but nowhere near enough. But hey, if NBC prefers death by a thousand paper cuts as opposed to biting the bullet and simply doing the right thing, that's fine by me. At first NBC News thought they could make us go away by admitting the "error." The "error," of course, being the malicious, race-baiting edit of 911 audio in order to make a private citizen, who is currently in hiding for fear of his life, look racist. Then NBC News thought an apology might end the growing firestorm. Then, finally, just like a White House with something to hide about Fast and Furious, news was leaked late Friday that NBC had finally fired the producer responsible for this unpardonable act. The Washington Post's Erik Wemple, who has been the mainstream media exception in doing a superb job of covering this scandal, put the news of last night's firing this way: Yet it’s not sewn up. We still don’t know the name of the dismissed producer; we don’t know if the network gave any consideration to apologizing directly to Zimmerman; we don’t know if warnings were issued to other NBC employees; and so on. NBC could have headed off this story sprawl by publishing a fuller account of the incident ealier [sic] this week. Since it failed to do so, this scandal will have a life well beyond Easter. Yes, that's right, just for starters, NBC News refuses to name the fired producer responsible. And that, by any reasonable standard, is nothing more than a cover up. To think that this biased, irresponsible, race-baiter can now freely move about the cabin and get a job anywhere in the news business, free from public scrutiny, is a cover up. Moreover, if NBC won’t name the producer, how in the world are we supposed to know someone has actually been fired? But the biggest problem for NBC News is that a single unnamed sacrificial scapegoat doesn't begin to pay for the deliberate crime of throwing gasoline on a racial fire that was already raging. Edit-Gate didn’t occur in the fever swamps of MSNBC. This happened on the oh-so-storied "Today Show," which means that there are only two ways this was allowed to happen: 1. The checks and balances at the "Today Show" are so lax that one person can push something like this on the air without anyone noticing -- at least until New Media smells a rat. 2. There are checks and balances, but this was ALLOWED to go through purely for the partisan political purpose of aiding and abetting Obama's push to gin up his base in a crucial swing state. Not only do we need to know HOW a scandal that makes Rathergate look like just another piece of biased reporting was allowed to happen; we also need to know WHO allowed it to happen. It doesn't matter if the answer to the above question is one, two, or all of the above. Either someone who needs to be fired put a wildly irresponsible system in place, or a whole bunch of people who need to be fired allowed this travesty to skim through. Either way, more people need to be fired, most especially the person who sits at the desk where the NBC buck ultimately stops. With their Friday night "nameless producer" dump, NBC News has only disgraced itself more, and still the network insists that the malicious edit was an "error" and not done deliberately, which of course is absolute nonsense. This intentional attempt to gin up racial hatred and division is not only the slander of a private citizen (and the poisoning of a jury he might someday meet) but an attack on every citizen of this country -- and we deserve more than a nameless sacrificial scapegoat. NBC News should immediately remove itself from this investigation and appoint a neutral panel to not only fully investigate the matter, but to reveal their findings to the public and ensure accountability is meted out to all those responsible. If NBC and the "Today Show" are at all interested in rebuilding anything resembling a reputation, this is the only acceptable first step in what will be a very long journey. P.S. Don’t think for a second we've forgotten about you, CNN, ABC, and New York Times. You're all part of Edit-Gate, and there will be a reckoning. breitbart.com

To: Bilow who wrote (131657)	4/11/2012 11:44:45 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

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”: Video 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.