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发帖数: 29846 | 1 NBC Producer fired over editing of Zimmerman’s words, not many covering it
yet
April 7, 2012 by Rick Rice
I’m seeing it in the blogosphere but the mainstream media thus far is
largely ignoring it. I wonder why?
The New York Times decides to report it on their Media Decoder blog.
It ought to be on their front page:
NBCNewsNBC News has fired a producer who was involved in the production of a
misleading segment about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida.
The person was fired on Thursday, according to two people with direct
knowledge of the disciplinary action who declined to be identified
discussing internal company matters. They also declined to name the fired
producer. A spokeswoman for NBC News declined to comment.
The action came in the wake of an internal investigation by NBC News into
the production of the segment, which strung together audio clips in such a
way that made George Zimmerman’s shooting of Mr. Martin sound racially
motivated. Ever since the Feb. 26 shooting, there has been a continuing
debate about whether race was a factor in the incident.
The segment in question was shown on the “Today” show on March 27. It
included audio of Mr. Zimmerman saying, “This guy looks like he’s up to no
good. He looks black.”
But Mr. Zimmerman’s comments had been taken grossly out of context by NBC.
On the phone with a 911 dispatcher, he actually said of Mr. Martin, “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.” Then the dispatcher
asked, “O.K., and this guy — is he white, black or Hispanic?” Only then
did Mr. Zimmerman say, “He looks black.”
…
On April 4, the network news division said in a statement that it deeply
regretted the “error made in the production process.”
“We will be taking the necessary steps to prevent this from happening in
the future and apologize to our viewers,” the network said.
It did not specify what steps it would take. But one day later it dismissed
a Miami-based producer who had worked at NBC for several years.
The people with direct knowledge of the firing characterized the misleading
edit as a mistake, not a purposeful act.
How that misleading act could be characterized as anything but purposeful is
beyond me, And if it was truly a mistake, then is firing a person over it
called for? And why not name the producer? And where’s the rest of
mainstream media?
This is merely more bovine fecal matter.
This firing ought to be trumpeted from every news agency. The lie that was
sold as truth (and bought as truth by the gullible and the easily led) ought
to get the same coverage the lie received.
But that’s not gonna happen now is it? |
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