NBC News Apologizes for ‘Error’ in Editing of Trayvon Martin Story
- Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:15pm by
Mytheos Holt
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The Trayvon Martin case has become a lightning rod for controversy, with the facts of the tragic case becoming the centerpiece of what is slowly beginning to look like a nationwide media war. And to media cynics on both sides, that information warring is only proving that, to paraphrase a popular TV show, when you play the game of ratings, you win or you lie.
NBC News and its partner MSNBC haven’t been on the winning side recently. In fact, two recent incidents have been very unkind to the company. First, there was the revelation that NBC News might have doctored a clip of a 911 call made by shooter George Zimmerman before his confrontation with Trayvon Martin. The original call ran as follows:
Zimmerman: 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 black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
The altered NBC News version simply ran this way:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.
Now NBC News has actually issued a public apology for the editing of the clip, along with an assurance that they will be conducting an investigation to find out how the version was aired. Here’s the text of their statement, as posted by the Washington Post:
During our investigation it became evident that there was an error made in the production process that we deeply regret. We will be taking the necessary steps to prevent this from happening in the future and apologize to our viewers.
Lots of credit on this story should go to Newsbusters — make sure to read their post on the “skimpy” apology by clicking here.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the only controversy which NBC and its affiliates have been embroiled in regarding its coverage of the Martin case. MSNBC host Al Sharpton has been involving himself in the controversy to the point that some news sources are suggesting he’s crossed a line. But more noticeably still, MSNBC Pop Cultural contributor Toure recently attacked CNN anchor Piers Morgan for being too willing to hear both sides of the story. Specifically, Morgan had invited George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman, to appear on his show – something Toure found objectionable.
The reason he gave was that George and Robert Zimmerman were allegedly estranged – a “fact” which Morgan himself shot down as incorrect. Moreover, he accused Piers Morgan of softballing his interview with Robert Zimmerman. Morgan denied and refuted the charge, leading Toure to sputter with rage about how Morgan should have asked even more pointed questions, for instance how one would quantify Robert Zimmerman’s suggestion that his brother was “the most honest brother.” Here’s the segment involved:
Unfortunately for Toure, he might have been too aggressive himself. In fact, he had to specifically apologize via Twitter for what Yahoo News called a “meltdown.” The damage, however, was done. RedState gleefully seized on one portion of Toure’s remarks:
The most stunning admission yet came from something called a Touré, which is apparently an MSNBC contributor. Touré apparently got tired of being on a television channel no one watches so he went on Piers Morgan last week to take Piers to task for the journalistic crime of getting both sides of the story:
You know, at NBC, in the hallways, we were laughing at you today,” Touré told Morgan. “We wouldn’t take [Robert Zimmerman]. Standards and Practices at NBC wouldn’t let him get through door. And you had him on the air and allowed the hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands or whatever number of people watch your show listen to what he had to say.
This is the first time I can remember an alleged news figure explicitly stating that his network had a policy against allowing one of the major players in a national news story to give his side. My favorite part of Touré’s hysterical rant was his indignation at the fact that people would hear what Zimmerman had to say. One thing is clear – the way the media has been covering this story so far validates that Touré really was telling the truth. Journalistic Standards and Practices apparently don’t allow for any coverage of the Trayvon Martin story that would suggest that the race pimps who are currently hustling this story don’t have it right.
This repeated necessity for a major network to walk back its coverage, or for its contributors to apologize, is not a good sign for the company in question.
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Bro Geo Too
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:47pm`
While Travon’s death is without a doubt a tragedy, it should be noted democrats will play this for all it is worth. Sharpton, Pelosi, Reid, Jesse Jackson Sr. and Jr., Obama, Holder, Boxer, Schumer, Byrd, etc. have spent lifetimes creating a permanent, black, poverty class that will always vote for democrats since the democrats enable, reward, and promote a “massa-gonna-take-care-of-me” lifestyle.
Read the groundbreaking book, “Whites, Blacks, and Racist Democrats”, by Reverend Wayne Perryman who just happens to be a man of color.
Perryman heroically exposes the plantation chains of the democrat party. He proves democrats are historically pro-abortion because the majority of aborted babies are black. The only thing democrats like about blacks are the votes keeping them in power
The following link goes to a website that clearly states, and I quote, “A vote for a Pro-Choice Candidate is a vote for Black Genocide.”
http://www.blackgenocide.org/gap.html
Racism is the historic province of Democrats NOT Republicans. The KKK was historically an enclave of democrats NOT republicans. Praise God for the growing numbers of conservative black voters who refuse to be taken for granted or intimidated by racist democrats black or white.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:25pmOh they’re all a bunch of vultures…….Using the death of a 17 year old to pander votes and create more divisiveness between the races. Actually they are more like ghouls than vultures.
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 5:17pmHighly regarded by obama’s professor Derrick Bell, Ignatiev describes his disdain for the White race.
Excerpt from Race Traitor;
By Ignatiev’s telling, RT and its abolitionists “attac[ked] whiteness” not only for the purpose of advancing racial justice, but also “to undermine the main pillar of capitalist rule in this country.” The ultimate “aim” of abolitionism, he acknowledges, “is not racial harmony but class war” that will result in capitalism‘s demise and socialism’s ascendancy.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:46pmCondemning a man without a trial was pretty popular last century. They called it lynching. You would think the black community and it’s out spoken leadership would be sensitive to the damage it can cause to a people or community and tread a little more lightly UNTIL THE FACTS ARE IN! The media has no excuse for this.
Silversmith
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:57pmJoe Why arrest Zimmerman for defending his life against a gangsta punk who got what he deserved.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:59pmJOE.R.PIEHOLE at what point will Eric Holder be arrested for the murder of Brian Terry? And why should the white community wait for the hearings play out? Any outrage on your part?…….bet not, so stuff it
Report Post »Rodney777
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:15pmStop talking to Joey he’s not smart enough to understand! He can’t carry a gun “ god knows why”
Report Post »17 or 77 if you hit someone you get shot stupid!
str8blues
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:48pmJoe, you see….in America, we wait for the facts to come out in the case before an arrest is made. I know you want a token hanging…..but America has moved past that era in our society. You should too. If the facts play out and find that he unjustifiably murdered Treyvon…..the police will arrest him. If they find evidence to show that he acted in self defense…..then Zimmerman will not be charged. Its called a civilized and law abiding society. Welcome to America.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:25pmJOE.R.PIEHOLE, Consider this as your enlightenment then. Oddly enough police agencies in Florida have to follow Florida law. Of which you are ignorant. Before you think that I am calling your names like your imbecile slinging earlier, I merely mean you must be unaware of their laws. They will not arrest Zimmerman unless they have enough provable evidence. Otherwise the arresting agency is held liable for false arrest and can be sued. The arresting officers as well. Another thing to think about, just how many agencies do you think are looking into this now? Although the police chief has stepped down, the county sheriff’s department is likely taking a look, along with the state, along with the FBI and the DOJ’s involvement. Again, think about it, just why have they not made an arrest? It takes provable evidence, and this is not CSI or Law & Order. Apparently your source of legal knowledge.
Report Post »I am for finding the truth through investigation. If Zimmerman is guilty hang him as far as I am concerned. But he as well as anybody in such a predicament is to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Your other posts make you to be the judge, jury, and executioner.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:37pmOops, the above post should be in the next section below.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:43pmRichard M. Cohen, Senior Producer of CBS political news, stated:
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose.”
Richard Salant, former President of CBS News:
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:22pmI remember Sam Donaldson being asked how they develop reporting the news…his answer went something like this:
“Well when we have a lead on a story we conduct the research and investigate. Then we tell the people what we think they need to know”. I SWEAR! I was in my 20′s and realized at that moment what the media was all about.
Report Post »rancorkeeper240
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:28amBet he/they are all on the white/black house payrole.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:41pmThe Marxist MSM will ALWAYS lie and fabricate stories to get their agenda further ahead.
John Swinton, guest of honor at a banquet given to him back in 1880, by the leaders of his craft, journalists, stated:
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” John Swifnton
Report Post »Henrys_Ghost
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:28am@COLT1860, I absolutely love “intellectual prostitutes” when describing journalists. I am going to remember that one. Gold I tell ya, pure gold…..
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:41pmTruth spelled backwards is hturt.
If you can figure out what I’m talking about, you get a biscuit.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:41pmIt’s not like the Good Ole Days… when anyone could start a Race Riot!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:12amNBC apologized in a pig’s eye. . It’s only because they got caught.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:41pmWow JOE! You must be an expert like Obama with all of the facts! I hope you get to eat pie …mud pie if Mr Zimmerman is found to be innocent.
Report Post »Stew57
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:40pmThey love to dan rather the news aven without Dan Rather! plenty of other so called news men willing to rather on the news.
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:39pmLet’s be honest. This whole Trayvon Martin charade has been orchestrated by the left media and their fellow travelers to enrage African Americans with the old “ them vs us” argument in an effort to mobilize the black community in support of Obama. He has been losing that demographic lately and without it his chances of regaining the White House are not good. Remember people. It is election time and the democracts will tear the United States apart if necessary to ensure their grasp on power.
Report Post »joe.r.piehole
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:42pmLets be honest, you’re a conspiracy theorizing imbecile. There is no vast leftwing conspiracy to drum up black voter turnout. If anything, stories like this disenfranchise the black vote as their mistrust for the system is confirmed by shotty police work, and the lack of an arrest for a man that profiled and murdered an unarmed 17 year-old.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:56pmJoe perhaps you and your uber liberal socialists could just trim a little more fat off of the constitution.
Report Post »Then we could all march unhappily to our re-education camps.
Inlightofthings
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:16pmConstitution…what Constitution?…we don‘t need no stinkin’ Constitution!!!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:25pmAnd Joe you are the expert how? Frankly, it is your opinion and I disagree. If their is a vast Right Wing Conspiracy as touted by the left, then there is a vast Left Wing Conspiracy who is wiling to take down America to obtain power. The left has always used people to gain notice. Just look at Reid, Pelosi, Wasserman-Shultz, Shelia Jackson Lee, Sharpton, Jackson, Van Jones; I could go on forever. They are capitalizing on Trayvon Martin. They are exploiting this young mans death for political gain. That is despicable.
Report Post »str8blues
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:56pmYou’re right on!
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:37pm@joe.r.piehole I guess calling the police on someone who is casing houses and going through yards is now profiling? All right. Next time you see someone looking awkwardly at your house and going through your yard, don’t dare call the police or grab a baseball bat. Invite him inside, and give him some of that tasty kool-aid of yours.
Report Post »Manoloribera
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:26amLet’s be honest; this whole thing is a lynching of a Hispanic-American by race baiting, leftist, haters.
Tawana Brawley Case
Report Post »Duke Lacrosse Case
Zimmerman lynching
hpyagl
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:51amQuote for Joe Piehole – “ stories like this disenfranchise the black vote” Now that’s some real “black humor” if I ever heard any.
Report Post »bobora
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:38pmNBC issued an apology to their viewers for the doctored clip….yeah all 12 of them
Report Post »MarcusFL
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:37pmThey will never show that they altered the tapes or anything else on th ebs networks. May be here and on the internet but those that watch those stations wont see it.
Put this “next” to the long lines of shame they have.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:29pmc
Report Post »Check the ratings, that says it all.
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:35pmlol. yeah. lean foward.
Report Post »Never thought I would live to see a day where I trust Russian Television – RT, more than one of the biggest (Past tense) American media outlets.
MSLSD….err, NBC is as an enemy of America run by a bunch of “lean Commie” bankers.
progressiveslayer
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:34pmJournalism died many many years ago and so called ‘journalists’ will lie and doctor tapes for ratings so no surprise here.The brain dead who listen to the msm are gullible and believe all the crap the ‘journalists’ dish out,it’s a sad state of affairs indeed.
Report Post »dietrdeb
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:32pmThank goodness that this Touret’ or whatever his name is has the guts to speak the truth about MSNBC and NBC on the air. What a damned fool!
Report Post »DisgustedinCT
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:32pmGasp, say it is not so that the news edits and shows just one side of the story, wait that sounds familiar, oh yes exactly what happened when obozzo was running for office.
Report Post »I would bet Zimmerman is innocent just on the way the news is presenting everything. We shall see.
joe.r.piehole
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:34pmlol @ you calling the president names when he is a constitutional scholar and you are a nobody.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:39pmAhhhha constitutional scholar…wait…. wouldn’t that make Obama an expert then on the constituition?
Report Post »So why then has he used the constitution to wipe his ass?
hidden_lion
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:41pmpiehole-
Report Post »Have you seen Obama’s diploma? His grades while in college? How do you think he is a constitutional scholar? Oh, yeah, he told you he was so it must be true.
DisgustedinCT
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:52pmjoe.r.piehole
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:34pm
lol @ you calling the president names when he is a constitutional scholar and you are a nobody.
As for obozzo being a constitutional scholar, seems he is screwing the pooch lately with his comments. Guess he didn’t study as hard as he should have. That is what happens when his handlers let him off the lease to make comments on his own.
And lastly, better to be a nobody than a piece of s.h.i.t. troll like you.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:03pmJoe how do you think your constitutional scholar LMAO got into college? Affirmative action ie he’s stupid like you.The ‘president’ you voted for is a Marxist POS who‘ll be fired in November and we’ll continue cleaning out congress of all the filthy communists,socialists and anarchists that plague us.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:20pm@joe.r.piehole… Yeah, so Obama is a constitutional scholar… that signs UN-constitutional laws. So he either forgot what he learned as a so-called “scholar”, therefore signing such laws or he’s obviously trying to subvert.
Wake up you dumb@ss!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:36pmConstitutional Scholar my a——s. He is trampling all over the Constitution. You keep telling yourself all those lies JoePiehole. Stupid people can’t see the things to come. They live in the moment, like you, you will be left out in the cold while the rest of us is warm and cozy.
Report Post »strawberry411a
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:32pmNAZIS!!! The entire media establishment is corrupted by lies, political agendas and more lies. This is WORSE than anything Nazi Germany ever tried during the 30′s with their propaganda minister. And what is so pathetic is the media has nothing to gain from this hypocrisy…. when this country goes WE ALL GO including them.
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:31pmI programmed in skip the MSLSD channel on my cable box. So, unless I read something like this, I don’t even know who if any one is on the air, or for that matter if the station is still on the air. Yep, happy.
Report Post »El Jefe
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:30pmNobody on the left gives a crap. The people on welfare and the other useless idiots sit at home and get their news from these tards in the liberal media. Why do you think the government was giving away vouchers for free digital cable converters??? It’s so these brainless people can still get their marching orders from the libs…
Report Post »wakeus_com
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:30pmAll of this is such a mess … and I sincerely hope some good comes out of it … like the end of that Toure turd. What a smug little twit … and I am no Piers Morgan fan, either.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:30pm2 words
FIRE SHARPTON
OMG 2012
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:36pmAlthough, it is instructive to hear these dopes spew their drivel. Even the terminally stupid DEMOCRATS, can’t make hell or highwater about what they convey. It has to be embarrassing to defend these idiots logic, day after day.
Report Post »mils
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:37pmYOU MUST MUST MUST..
Report Post ».include our elected officials that have made asses out of themselves with their attitudes
and cowgirl hats… you know the “rabid dog” biotch.. someone needs to pour some money into her district ad have some one else elected, she looks like a drag queen..sorry this is off subject..ANYBODY…HER AND PELOSI’S DISTRICT!!!…
LOJ
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:29pmLess and Less people are watching NBC or MSNBC. They know the hour is late and the people have been duped by these liberal media outlets.
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:28pmi would believe the National Enquirer before these guys…how sad is that?
Report Post »Redwood Elf
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:01pmAt least the Enquirer isn’t presenting itself as an “unbiased news source.”
Some braindead liberal at NBC decided the flames of hate needed fanning, so he cropped out a big portion of the 911 call. Just like a newspaper that puts up a big sensational headline they know is wrong…then 3 days later they print a retraction on page 210, under the “Lost pet” ads.
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:25pmOMG………..freeking UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=679_1332640868
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:44pmI saw this on another site earlier, How messed up is that? Why are not White Americans up in arms? Where are the protests? Where are the arrests? These black’s faces are clearly visible on the tape, should be an easy case.
Report Post »hynzerelli
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:53pmThe reason ol wh1tey isn’t up in arms about this vid is we expect this kind of thing from a bunch of blck j4ckals. The drunk cr4cker shouldn’t have been walking around in the hood tanked up so in reality I guess he needed a butt whuppin for a reality check. Most whites are realists we’re not drama queens who hype up a story to pimp our agenda.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 1:32amhynzerrilli…..Very well said……that was truly a stupid thing to do, given the atmosphere……..
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:24pmYeah, right NBC. Just like when “under God” was omitted from the Pledge Of Alleigence.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:36pmSad isn’t it . .. that they thought no one would notice .. and they would get away with it.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:21pmYep…it’s official…
Report Post »“Yellow journalism” can NOW be called.
PEACOCK JOURNALISM ….!
Leadthemtothelight
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:20pmThe only astonishing bit here is that there appears to be a percentage of the population that still refers to msnbc as a news organization.
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