On May 16, 9:25 am, Scheißekopf <
Deep...@imafuckinglyingliberal.org>
wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 May 2012 08:05:52 -0500, Lookout <
mrlooko...@yahoo.com>
In response to a direct question by the Sanford PD dispatcher: it
wasn't an unsolicited, spontaneous statement on the part of George
Zimmerman, Andy.
Do try to "compress" the difference.
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>> They edited for times sake..the meaning is still the same.
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Then why did they apologize for the incident and fire the producer who
had the tape edited if it was "edited for times {SIC} sake," Andy?
Moreover:
NBC's Bad Edit Pre-dated Today Show And Still Appears on NBC News
Sites
By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Mon Apr 09, 2012 at 08:50:00 AM EST
Saturday and Sunday, Reuters reported it had interviewed MSNBC News
President Steve Capus and others at NBC and got "the fullest
explanation yet" of the network's racially-charged, misleading edit of
George Zimmerman's 911 call that appeared on the Today Show on March
27. It was just a matter of time pressures inherent in morning news
production, that was simply missed by the network's editorial
controls, which include senior broadcast producer oversight, script
editors, and sometimes legal standards review.
As part of the investigation, the producer who edited the call was
questioned extensively about motivation, and it was determined that
the person had cut the video clip down to meet a maximum time
requirement for the length of the segment - a common pressure in
morning television - and inadvertently edited the call in a way that
proved misleading.
In checking LexisNexis last night, I noticed the March 27 Today Show
segment was the second time the Today Show used the inappropriate
edit. The first was on March 22, 2012, in a segment titled "Fallout
from the Trayvon Martin shooting includes calls for Sanford police
chief to resign". The segment featured a live report by NBC reporter
Lilia Luciano in Sanford. The video, which was linked to by Luciano
that day on her Twitter Feed, has been removed from the Today Show
Website (although part of the transcript is still there, racial quote
and all). From the transcript on Lexis:
LUCIANO: ...the teen gunned down by Neighborhood Watchman George
Zimmerman last month as he walked through this gated community wearing
a hoodie.
(Clip from 911 call)
Mr. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks
black.
Unidentified 911 Operator: Did you see what he was wearing?
Mr. ZIMMERMAN: Yeah, a dark hoodie.
(End of clip)
This is the same thing the Today Show aired on March 27:
Luciano's live report on the March 22 Today Show, which included the
distorted quote, was followed by a discussion between Matt Lauer,
TODAY's legal correspondent Savannah Guthrie and commentator and
former prosecutor Star Jones. To their credit, none of them referred
to the words on the played clip. On the other hand, they also didn't
notice the clip falsely portrayed the 9/11 call. Neither, apparently,
did reporter Luciano or anyone at the editorial controls of the Today
Show.
According to the transcript of the call, here's what was actually
said:
Dispatcher: Sanford Police Department. …
Zimmerman: Hey we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and
there's a real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, um, the
best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks
like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining
and he's just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
Dispatcher: Did you see what he was wearing?
Zimmerman: Yeah. A dark hoodie, like a grey hoodie, and either jeans
or sweatpants and white tennis shoes. He's [unintelligible], he was
just staring…
Again, while NBC's video for Luciano's March 22 Today Show segment has
been removed, the transcript is still there, with the misquote. It
reads:
reporter: the teen gunned down last month as he walked through this
gated community wearing a hoody.
>> he looks like he's up to no good. he looks black.
>> did you see what he was wearing?
>> yeah, a dark hoody.
But the Today Show is only half the story. Via Tom McGuire and Les
Jones, news articles on NBC 6 Miami's website ran the same misleading,
prejudicial edit in two articles days before either episode of Today
Show aired, on March 19 at 7:02 pm and March 20 at 8:10 pm. (Scroll to
the bottom of the articles for the original publication date and time.
You can also see the original dates match the dates comments began.)
I found a third article with an original date stamp of March 19 at 11:
21 pm (again, scroll to the bottom to see it.)
Incredibly, all three articles are still on NBC 6 Miami's website,,
distorted quote and all.
How did all these misquotes happen? As Les Jones discovered, and Tom
Maguire amplifies, they began with news articles posted on NBC 6
Miami's website on March 19 and 20.
The March 20 NBC 6 Miami article, by Jeff Burnside, has the headline
"Trayvon Martin's Shooter Defended By Fellow Neighborhood Watch
Captain." The distorted edit hardly seems like an oversight, since
there's a hyperlink under the prejudicial quote which leads to the
first article originally dated March 19 at 7:02 pm (since updated on
April 2 -- another missed chance to correct), headlined White House
Monitoring Trayvon Martin Case as Protests Mount. The authors of this
March 19 article are Christina Hernandez, Jeff Burnside and Edward B.
Colby. From the March 20 article by Jeff Burnside:
Their confrontation ended with Martin getting shot in the chest.“This
guy looks like he’s up to no good … he looks black,” Zimmerman told a
police dispatcher from his car. His father has said that Zimmerman is
Hispanic, grew up in a multiracial family, and is not racist.
When you click on the link, you go to the March 19 article, which
says:
On his call to police, Zimmerman called Martin, a junior at Krop
Senior High School in Miami, “a real suspicious guy.”
“This guy looks like he’s up to no good … he looks black,” Zimmerman
said, while calling police from his car. He said Martin was wearing a
gray hoodie and had “his hand in his waistband.”
So the first article with the bad edit was by Christina Hernandez,
Jeff Burnside and Edward B. Colby on March 19. Christina Hernandez is
also the author of the article I found published later that night,
while Jeff Burnside is the author of the March 20 article. The Today
show segments aired March 22 and March 27.
As of today, Jeff Burnside still has a bio at NBC 6 Miami. Edward B.
Colby does not, although maybe he never did. Does he work for NBC or
is he a free-lancer or AP reporter? It's hard to tell. This February
12, 2012 article says it is written "By NBC Miami's Jeff Burnside and
Edward B. Colby and MSNBC Staff." This February 23 article has the
byline "Edward B. Colby, NBC Miami."And while the Associated Press is
also credited on the article Colby co-authored on Zimmerman, he wrote
a lot for NBC 6 Miami -- a search of its website shows more than 155
articles written or co-written by Colby.
Christina Hernandez is still listed on NBC 6 Miami's website, as is
her March 19 article, Father of Teen Shot in Sanford Working "To Bring
Justice For My Son", with the mangled, distorted edit of the call:
In his call to 911, Zimmerman said, "There's a real suspicious guy.
This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.
He looks black."
So the blatant, racially charged distortion of George Zimmerman's 911
call started on NBC 6 Miami on March 19, appearing in two articles by
three different writers. It was repeated on March 20 in an article
attributed to one of the three writers. The articles have been
updated, but the quotes remain. The mis-quote aired on the Today Show
on March 22 during a live segment with reporter Lilia Luciano, and
again on March 27 with reporter Ron Allen.
For NBC and MSNBC to characterize the error as a single episode caused
by a producer's time constraints in getting a video clip ready for
live morning television, which just unfortunately happened to be
missed by layers of editorial control, is not very convincing.
While of course I have no way of knowing, it seems to me the botched
editing was not an intentional attempt to smear George Zimmerman. I
think it was the result of carelessness, inattention and incompetence.
What's truly disturbing is that editorial controls at NBC, MSNBC and
NBC 6 Miami, all failed to catch the error, not once, but five times.
That's nothing short of inexcusable.
While the producer who put the clip together bears the initial blame,
as do the reporters who included it in their live segments and the
writers who included it in their articles, I think the people equally
accountable and deserving of being fired are the script editor, the
senior producers responsible for oversight, and those in the legal and
standards review departments. It was their job to catch errors before
they hit the airwaves and internet and they failed miserably. It's
like they were all out to lunch -- all day for seven days. And the
articles haven't been corrected to this day.
It also seems that NBC 6 Miami has a systemic problem. Their writers
are repeating false information from one story to the next, spreading
it like a virus. Not just one writer, but several. Not just one time,
but multiple times. Even after two weeks, and notwithstanding updates
to the original articles, the three articles with the distorted,
racially charged quote are still up on NBC 6 Miami's website. I think
the responsibility for that lies with NBC 6 Miami's senior management.
They need a jolt. Demoting them or transferring them to the boondocks
would be a good start. It would also send the appropriate message to
their replacements.
One last thought: Whatever happened to "fact-checkers?" Did NBC
eliminate their jobs as a cost-cutting move? If so, they should bring
them back. The sooner the better.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2012/4/9/43020/94141
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> Zimmerman, who is white...
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George Zimmerman is an Hispanic Democrat with black Peruvian roots in
his parentage, Scheißekopf; and your intentional act of ignoring that
fact is prima facie evidence of your racist dishonesty.
But, of course; you have already stated why no one should believe a
thing you write here:
"I didn't really think anybody would actually be gullible enough to
believe me."
--Scheißekopf "Deep Dudu", Sat, 05 Nov. 2011
As well as:
"ain't it great to be crazy?"
— Scheißekopf "Deep Dudu", Thu, 24 Mar 2011
And here's what you think about people who don't fall for your crap:
"If you people don't fucking wise up soon we are going
to have to start shooting you."
What's with that "we" shit, Scheißekopf; you have a mouse in your
pocket?