Another Embarrassing NBC Edit Revealed — And This One Could Affect the Jerry Sandusky Verdict
- Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:19pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The NBC news empire has just been a part of another editing flub — and this one could have implications in the defense and appeal of recently-convicted sexual predator Jerry Sandusky.
A story published by Reuters reveals that, during the former coach’s trial, prosecutors played three versions of Sandusky’s phone interview with network correspondent Bob Costas. But one of the versions played in court included an embarrassing editing mistake that now could factor into Sandusky’s conviction as defense attorneys are reportedly considering using it as part of the basis for an appeal. Reuters explains:
In response to a subpoena, NBC News turned over three versions of Bob Costas’ NBC News interview with Sandusky, which aired last November on different NBC shows.
One of those versions, which was broadcast on the ‘Today’ show, contained an erroneous repetition of a key question and answer – about whether Sandusky was sexually attracted to young boys, Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general said on Sunday.
The repetition, Sandusky’s lawyers contend, made it appear to jurors that he was stonewalling. [Emphasis added]
“It wasn’t noticed by (NBC News), it wasn’t noticed by us, but it became obvious when it played in court,” Frederiksen told Reuters.
NBC News spokeswoman Amy Lynn confirmed this account on Sunday.
The article goes into more depth on the edit and the reaction:
In the Sandusky interview with NBC, Costas asks, “Are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys?” according to an NBC News transcript.
Sandusky responded, “Am I sexually attracted to underage boys?”
But in the “Today” version, which was played for jurors and is still available on YouTube (here), the exchange was repeated.
The interview was originally aired correctly on NBC News’ new magazine show, ‘Rock Center’ on November 14. The erroneous version that repeated the exchange aired the following morning on ‘Today.’
In a statement, NBC’s Lynn said: “Under subpoena, NBC News turned over three versions of the Costas interview to prosecutors, including the ‘Today’ version with the error in it. Prosecutors used the ‘Today’ version, not realizing it included a technical glitch, and played it for the jury.
“After court that day, NBC News executives had a series of discussion with the prosecutors, and after some internal investigation were able to determine that the glitch originated on ‘Today.’ NBC News executives explained the situation to the court, and Judge Cleland sought to remedy the situation by giving the jury instructions to regard only a transcript of the full interview that was subsequently provided to them, not any audio that was played for them by prosecutors.”
Here is the video version of the edit. It comes at about the 6:37 mark:
A prosecution source says the mistake was “embarrassing.”
“Was it embarrassing?” the source asked in an interview with Reuters. “It was certainly embarrassing. Was it a mistake? It was clearly a mistake.” As for NBC, the source said the network regretted the error.
“Did they say, ‘I’m sorry?‘ I can’t recall those exact words,” the source said. “Were they apologetic? Yes.”
“Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky sought a mistrial before his conviction for child sex abuse on the grounds that prosecutors showed jurors an inaccurate version of a bombshell NBC News interview with the former football coach, and the mistake may now form part of the basis for an appeal,” Reuters reports.
But this edit is just another in a long list for the new conglomerate. Earlier in the year, three NBC employees were fired for their parts in different, unrelated cases of editing the tapes of George Zimmerman calling 911 after shooting Trayvon Martin. Those edits cast Zimmerman in a racist light. More recently, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell edited a speech by Mitt Romney, removing the context and portraying him as out of touch. She has yet to apologize.
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Comments (100)
Daveed
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:51pmNBC and Main Street Media oooops, is criminally redundent.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 5:19pmNo no, according to NBC‘s Lynn it was an ’error‘ a ’technical glitch’.
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:42pmBob tough question, direct, and to the point. Here is my easy question to you, how come you don’t ask Obama and Holder these harder question? This Pedophile deserve it. So does Obama and Holder.
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:48pmWho gives a flying Sandusky monkey. The bas – tid was humping little boys in the shower at Penn State to earn his NAMBLA merit badge for “Most Audacious Place to F _ _ K”. Technical glitch aside he needs to have his testicles removed with a rusty knife. Which I am sure will happen once he gets to prison….unless someone named Bubba comes to his rescue in order to make him a prison beosh.
Report Post »jorskippy
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:55pmNBC is the ‘Globe” of TV…..not news just made up stories…..to attract viewers. No longer should anyone watch for news or all they will get is distrorted opinions from their “Journalist:
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:57pmIt’s quite funny that the Blaze likes to point out issues with select editing committed by other organizations when you consider the selective editing committed by this site and Glenn Beck. Furthermore, every host on Fox selectively edits clips of Obama and other liberals to make it seem they said something different.
This is not to defend the selective editing conducted by NBC, MSNBC, or CNN, but you are all a bunch of hypocrites if you don’t think it is wrong when Fox, Glenn Beck, and the Blaze do it as well.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:17pmAnd in related news, Fox did this http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oops-fox-news-plays-footage-of-indiana-gov-mitch-daniels-during-sandusky-news/.
But of course you will never see that on this site.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:35pmAllahFather2
Report Post »Puhlease start you own syndicated radio, tv, and internet business so I can glean nothing but fact, from you. Where have you been? Cronkite is turning in his grave and Murrow wants you to enlighten us and you are left here, in the void, making meaningless rants and posts. Hurry and get started. The truth awaits you and only you.
Crazy-Horse
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 2:06amHey Jerry, wanna go for a ride? I can get you 42K’ closer to God and then drop you off.
After that it’s up to Him.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 6:57am@BuzzardSays
Report Post »My dad used to say tie up the business end with a zip tie and let it rot off.
Johann
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 7:16amIt is spelled redundant; at no time do grammar and spelling not matter.
Report Post »righthanddrive
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:48pmFirst Congress rams through 3 bad bills: Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and Consumer protection without oversight
Report Post »Two: SCOTUS kills the concept of sovereignty in the AZ immigration case
Three: The Administration decides it will not enforce our immigration laws post the SCOTUS ruling
– the Napoliatano memo.
Four: The fourth estate rep., i.e., NBC may cause a sexual predator to go free.
Have you had enough of progressives to affect your vote this November?
snapper451
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:48pmNBC is a criminal enterprise, complicit with the Obama re-election. Maybe we should throw some of the producers and editors in jail. This is state run media anyway.
Report Post »Penn
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:37pmNBC?! Nothing But C+++
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:52pmNBC = ***** brocast company , it will be all u have after Obama is elected , get use 2 it , ebrasse it , praise it, ,,,, ect.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:37pmI’d rather see SAndusky free, than NBC survive as a network. Sandusky can be kept away from children and pay in the community, but NBC would keep going on helping spread lies, mistruths, oppsy-edits, and generally destroy this country and turn more people’s brains into mush.
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:57pmAside from that we need our dipsheep judicial system to put a bad, bad, boy humping queer into prison where he’ll get his justice, alrighty. Even rapists and murderers hate child molesters. Anyone know if Sandusky is the basis for “Chester the Molester” of Hustler Magazine? He sure looks the part.
Report Post »MRMANN
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:36pmNow what!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:13pmWill Sandusky sue NBC now?
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:52pmHow can so dishonest companies still remain making public scams under the mask of news? Is incomprehensible how Comcast is keeping the very same people that mislead the audience in a so dangerous and toxic way.
Report Post »Carl1 Supports Israel
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:10pmIf Americans grew a pair and everyone called comcast and canceled cable things might change? I told them 2 years ago to shove it!!
Report Post »stloocardsfan
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:12pmCan anyone trust any ‘reports’ from NBC anymore? ‘Technical glitch’ my a@@.
Report Post »JBarr73
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 7:52amNo, we cant.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:10pmPeople have to see things for what they are.
NBC is GE !!!!
You are watching General Electric Television!!!!!!!!
http://www.infowars.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america/
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 5:29pmTrue. What is Fox then? Republican Television? Do we have two types of MSM? One for the right and one for the left? I contend both of these so-called news outlets are agenda driven propaganda devices. MSNBC-GE’s agenda is to publicize Obama and Democrats as the good guys. Fox’s agenda is to publicize Mitt Romney and *establishment* Republicans as good guys.
Where is the media who’s agenda is to bring the truth to the American People? Where is Ron Paul’s televised media?
I was wondering; do you think its a strong possibility the puppet masters want Obama to win again? And if not Obama then the next best thing a Progressive like Mitt Romney. By Fox holding up Mitt Romney (a dedicated LIBERAL) as the next Republican President should piss off a lot of Ron Paul supporters who saw there candidate get vilified by Fox and that is only if his name happened to come up.
I know this is a lot of rambling. I’ve been back and forth from my desk 6 times since I started this post and by now I cant remember half of it. LOL Anyways…
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:51pm@Truthbeliever2
The Global Elite don’t care who manages the United States Corporation.
They control both political parties and their one world agenda is being carried out by both.
They Own FOX also.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:02pmI know Sandusky is a piece of human garbage and should be in jail for the rest of his life but NBC is garbage also. I hope he sues them successfully so their money will go to the people Sandusky molested.NBC is run by liberals and communist. It is sold out for OBAMA and to call them a new agency is embarassing.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:25pmNext trial should be on NBC .. make them pay ALSO!
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:01pmI think that Sandusky is probably guilty as guilty can be, but being surprised that the clowns at NBC would “edit” recordings of any kind to get them to show what they’d like people to believe is like being surprised that the lion at the zoo, bit you when you tried to scratch his ears. STUPID!
How anyone can believe anything NBC presents as representing anything approaching the truth escapes me. I haven’t watched lamestream news for many, many years and quit watching 60 Minutes when they lied about things that I personally had experience with. The leftist media does whatever it wants and we can all go pound sand as far as they’re concerned. What’ll they do when we all quit watching their lies?
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:59pmAnd we all know that Fox would never edit Obama’s words to make it look as though he said something different, would they?
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:42pm1
Report Post »Not too many of us need an outlet to form an opinion on the 0. You need an nbc to help your day along? Por que and is the mob really good on bennies these days or are they worried about the health care scenario too? Hiring freeze on or still shooting and looting? You get paid pto and dental with the mob nowadays? What’s with all the refuse companies being shills for laundering mula?
nativetexanne
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:57pmThe last good report on NBC was their review of Pinocchio, the sequel..
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:52pmWhy is it embarrassing.. its so obvious they did it on purpose!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:11pmAgree .. once or twice maybe a mistake but this is pathological — like they are so far gone they can’t tell the truth … ideology rules!
Report Post »gbo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:19pmIt’s embarrassing because they were caught. NBC should have its broadcasting license revoked.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 5:08pmCatB: You write, “Ideology rules.“ What conceivable ”ideological” motivation could NBC have for looping the crucial part of the Costas interview? If the prosecution’s case rested on this alone, maybe, but there were also the 8 victims who testified against Sandusky, and 0 (i.e., zero) ex-2nd Milers who testified in his defense, despite what he says about “helping thousands.” Case closed. You will get no political mileage out of this.
Report Post »RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:51pmMSNBC and NBC are both terrible and irresponsible organizations! People should be fired! It is too bad there is no ethics in journalism anymore!
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:47pmWow… I think undergrad journalism college students would be more fair and professional than the half wits NBC have in their news rooms. If you ever take what NBC says or site it as a source, expect to be laughed at.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:45pmI don’t know why so many people still watch main stream media. They have been shown to outright lie, over and over again, pad the news, and, basically just give their opinions every night.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:45pmIs everyone high on something in the editing room at NBC?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:56pmNBC===Nothing But Crazys
Report Post »Ann Curry walks away with 20-30 million.
I will NEVER watch NBC
Briam Williams lately has seemed “crazy”
Comcast screwed up buying this load of crap.
OMG 2012
RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:43pmOkay, as much as NBC and BSNBC are both nothing more than a bunch of lying fools with their own agenda and desires, I have to go off topic briefly.
Report Post »Rush reported at the beginning of his show this morning that as Sandusky entered jail this morning and was being interned to the sexual molester section, it is close enough to the general population to be within earshot. The inmates met him in song by singing “Hey teacher, leave those kids alone” from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” I just about laughed my rear end off.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:48pmOops, was distracted a bit. The report from Rush was this morning in my time zone. Not that Sandusky entered his jail this morning as my post above makes it sound.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:50pmYep, that part at the end seems a little appropriate for the perv.
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
Report Post »dsd13130
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:39pmWhy would anyone watch either MSNBC or NBC? There are 3 instances recently, that we KNOW about? How many times have they actually “edited” selectively that we don’t know about? I just don’t waste my time with them anymore.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:38pmDOA, NBC’s credibility.
Report Post »EyebrowsLaMana
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:34pmNbc and msnbc are not news sources, they are infotainemnt sources. I don’t know why a prosecutor would use any of their footage for court purposes.
Report Post »SHOOTnCRASH
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:50pmThey’re not even that. There’s hardly any info and its about as non entertaining as it gets. Its aggravating is what it is. Its Agrotainnot.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 11:37pmIt is pure naked propaganda.. Obama doesn‘t care if he’s fact checked or not.. He plays to the lowest possible denominator knowing that most of the demographic that composes his constituency are to stupid to care what the facts are anyway!! Debbie blabbermouth Wasserman-shultz, being chief among them, closely followed by allan colmes.. How, by the way, does that fool even keep a job?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:33pmHopefully real justice can be administered to the pedophile in the pen and all the appeals and lawyers will be unnecessary.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 4:14pmEven wishing for that ProgressiveSlayer, he is still entitled to a fair and impartial trial; in the case of this matter, he may get a second trial. If that happens may justice be fair and he get to spend the rest of his days behind bars.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:29pmSo NBC’s actions now have led to influencing the courts with false information? At the very least the actions probably will result in a new trial due to their manipulation of the information subsequently used by the DA in prosecution.
NBC needs to be held to account across the board for this, in civil liability and criminal prosecution.
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:28pmYa know?, ms(nbc) would probably have more than twenty viewers if they just told the news, not manipulate the news. Three misleading edits in the past couple months, how many times did they do this that we didn’t hear about?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:27pmLooks like NBC just makes their own news. No wonder ya can’t believe anything they say.
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