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NBC News President Steve Capus has updated Reuters about that edited call from George Zimmerman to police in the moments before he shot Trayvon Martin. It was “a mistake and not a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call,” Capus maintains. Reuters reports that NBC News brass interviewed more than a dozen staffers during its investigation of the matter, including the Miami-based producer who was fired Thursday. “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.” Capus said that NBC News’ broadcast standards department, led by David McCormick, has been holding meetings with various NBC News shows, as well as the network’s specialized units, to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Capus also is holding meetings among the network executives.
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Why is the media no longer covering the Trayvon Martin shooting?
Because it has subtlety and does not easily fit into a 2-minute segment.
Ohhh, since Steve Capus says so….no way a network that has commentators literally running things for Martin’s family could have edited to frame an argument!
Gather up some lawyers, Mr. Zimmerman. You’re about to be a very rich man.
So in other words this producer was adhering to NBC News’ editorial requirements and got sacked for it? It would be interesting to know what they are, such as whether all clips have a maximum permitted length, for example.
If it was a mistake, why was the person fired? Isn’ the point of oversight protocols to catch mistakes? If so, why aren’t those people terminated as well? NBC News is a sewer.
I had just assumed as well I’m sure many others that of course he was asked by 911 what race …. No one on this earth would ever admit they designate black or Asian or Spanish.
And…editing is just the lean story …
The big question is Why are blacks being exploited …
Why is the false edit still being used in stories on NBC’s website? Three writers worked on two different written stories, it’s not just the tv version.
Al Sharpton gave yesterday’s big Trayvon Martin rally a miss. He knows his payday has been cancelled.
Oh please, a “mistake” is truncating a part of a recording resulting in the broadcasted portion ending abruptly or lacking sense.
A willful act is carving out a precise question from the 911 operator but leaving Zimmerman’s response resulting in an exponentially incendiary recording.
What NBC broadcast was crafted in-house to have a desired effect.
In another context, this would be known as evidence tampering and perjury. Someone might even be admonished for lying by HR.
Another shinning example of the deliberately obtuse Left media. This is Yellow Journalism in its truest sense. Upton Sinclair, where are you?
Perhaps there should be a “maximum time requirement” for media consolidation.
Nice try, Campus… except you have only made matters worse. The edit in question probably saved only ten seconds, which could easily been absorbed by your reporters not blathering as much. Also, you have shown no one checks your audio for clarity or accuracy before it airs. And if things happened as you say, and someone was simply doing their job, you don’t fire them. Face it pal: NBC news has a clear, well-known bias to support the views and opinions of the President, and after he spoke on this matter, you fell in lockstep with many others to portray Mr. Zimmerman as the aggressor in this incident– and the producer who edited the tape thought he was doing what you wanted.
NBC News President Steve Capus:
It was “_ _______ ___ ___ a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call,” Capus maintains.
“The producer ___ edited the call ___ __________ extensively _____ __________, and __ was determined that the ______ ___ ___ ___ video clip ____ __ meet a _______ ____ requirement for the ______ __ the segment _ _ ______ ________ __ _______ __________ – ___ _____________ ______ ___ ____ __ _ ___ ____ ______ misleading.”
Well that explains it! They had to cut for time. They only had time for the important part of the call: Zimmerman was suspicious of a black man.
Still waiting for Tom Brokaw to apologize for saying, with certainty, that Richard Jewell was the Atlanta Bomber!
If this was FNC or Sky, the headline would read:
Tapegate SCANDAL.
Deadline folks, thanks for covering this, another example of why you are far better than the MSM.
First, NBC news has taken a terrible hit to an already diminished reputation. Any organization that claims to bring transparency to it’s viewers should be transparent itself. So who did you discipline, fire and why ?
Many unanswered questions:
Does MSNBC have the same standards as NBC news ? So MSNBC ran the same story 2 weeks before Today, yet no one there has been fired. How about having an on air personality actively involved in protests attacking Zimmerman ?
How is it possible with multiple editors for this to happen ?
Oh and Capus talking to Reuters, please, you have a news organization, why not have a con call with interested journalists.
So if NBC has disciplined people, what did they do and why ?
This just reinforces the belief that NBC news plays the race card to help firm up the Obama base and advance the “hate crime” storyline. I guess a media lynching of Zimmerman was necessary.
The Martin shooting was awful and we have one life taken and another possibly ruined. NBC’s news actions make it harder for whomever investigates this (or re-investigates at a the DOJ) to make a case and provide some justice. No, the only winner here are the lawyers.
This is just sad…right or left…the news has the responsibility to report it accurately.PERIOD. What BS from Campus…he’s the one who should be fired.he actually thought we’d buy this crap…. let the facts speak for themselves…