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The NBC segment in question featured anchor Ron Allen and ran on the Today show on Tuesday. On Thursday, Sean Hannity and guest Brent Bozell played the NBC version of the 911 call and compared it with the unedited version. In the NBC segment, Zimmerman says: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black."
The full version, though, unfolds like this:
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."
911 operator: "Okay. And this guy, is he white black or Hispanic?"
Zimmerman: "He looks black."
This isn’t bias, this isn’t distortion, this is an all-out falsehood by NBC News,” answers Bozell, who runs a conservative watchdog group called the Media Research Center.
“When you hear him say, ‘he looks black,’ anyone watching that believes that there are racial overtones to what this man did,” Bozell says. “How could you not believe that? It goes with the narrative of the profiling. The only problem is, they edited out the dispatcher asking him, ‘what does he look like?’”
NBC News declined to comment.
NBC has revealed that it is launching an internal investigation into the “editing process” surrounding the conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher (shortly before Trayvon Martin was shot), where Zimmerman appears to volunteer racial information.
Following in line with their broadcast television colleagues who deliberately edited the audio of a 9-1-1 call of George Zimmerman, the Florida community watch volunteer who shot teenager Trayvon Martin, to falsely impute racist motives to him, MSNBC.com, in an unbylined piece did the exact same thing in text form, stripping out vital information which made Zimmerman appear to be racially motivated against Martin, who is black.
After being criticized, MSNBC.com restored the proper context but never posted a retraction, correction notice, or an apology for doing so.
Originally posted by xxThexGreatxEscapexx
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
The system is as corrupt as the media.
Originally posted by xxThexGreatxEscapexx
This shouldn't be national news. Shootings happen everyday in the united states.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Originally posted by xxThexGreatxEscapexx
This shouldn't be national news. Shootings happen everyday in the united states.
But how many times do the police actively cover up evidence, refuse to arrest the one who shot another, or deliberately attempt to obstruct justice?
Shootings are common, yes. But the circumstances of this case are shocking and sickening, and certainly suggest massive racism at the very core of the police department.
Originally posted by freedom12
reply to post by pierregustavetoutant
He clearly says, "[snip] Coons" sir. There is no stretch to hear it.
If he isn't saying that, then what do you insist he is saying?
edit on 1-4-2012 by freedom12 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by freedom12
And no mention of Zimmerman muttering "#ing coon" either?
Why isn't this headlines? It completely shows Zimmerman's racial bigotry.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
the circumstances of this case are shocking and sickening, and certainly suggest massive racism at the very core of the police department.
Originally posted by freedom12
He clearly says, "#ing Coons" sir. There is no stretch to hear it.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
This is actually extremely worrying, because it suggests the media deliberately trying to influence public opinion, and therefore legal proceedings and justice.should be held to account.