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.
Only if 'convincing' translates as "They caught us lying and faking news, so let's fire somebody as a sacrifice and hope that makes people stop paying attention." Which we won't.
They're far more willing to give these sorry excuses for reporters benefit of doubt they don't deserve:
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.
No, what's truly disturbing is that NBC and MSNBC flatly set out to falsify a transcript, all those 'editorial controls' passed it on and expected to get away with it. Or, TRULY disturbing, they expected to get caught and didn't care as long as they got the preferred narrative shoved out to people first.
I truly hope Zimmerman sues their asses off. And I think there's plenty of evidence to prove malice on the part of the clowns. He can go after ABC and CNN too for their parts in the railroading.
Said it before: these 'professional journalists' took their reputation and integrity(what was left of it), wiped their ass with it and flushed it. And there needs to be a price paid for that.
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