Source: NBC producer fired over Zimmerman 911 call

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

April 7, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Source: NBC producer fired over Zimmerman 911 call
By Frazier Moore



New York— NBC News has fired a producer for editing a recording of George Zimmerman's 911 call the night he shot Trayvon Martin.

NBC had aired an edited version of Zimmerman's call from the night of Feb. 26. It was trimmed to suggest that Zimmerman volunteered that Martin was black. But the deleted portion had the dispatcher asking Zimmerman if the person was "black, white or Hispanic." Zimmerman responded, "he looks black."

A person with direct knowledge of the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly said Saturday on the condition of anonymity that the producer was fired. The producer was not identified. An NBC spokeswoman declined to comment.


Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120407/NATION/204070367#ixzz1rNqhQURz

[Egalitariat]

1. It doesn't matter if the editing was accurate if the sentiment was true

This is similar to the TANG memo that got Dan Rather fired. It only should have mattered that the story was right, regardless of whether the memo was authentic. Like Rather, this NBC producer shouldn't have been fired.

[OccupyTheIRS]

2. So it's okay to cook the news when you are telling the truth? n/t

[mactime]

3. is that the new standard?

"It doesn't matter if the editing was accurate if the sentiment was true"
to hell with honest reporting just feed me stories that I agree with.

[groundloop]

6. "Just feed me stories I agree with" - works pretty well for Faux News

Honestly, NBC is right in taking that action to uphold it's journalistic integrity. I personally would think that a suspension would get the message across, but the important thing is accurate news reporting.

[SemperEadem]

12. it does matter if the editing is accurate

if you call yourself a professional with integrity.

If you're just a mediocre hack trying to brown nose your way up the ladder, then yeah, I guess this is de riguer.

There is no excuse to alter anything with in the bite except for recording equipment malfunction that would change the context of what is being said. There was none of that. Editing what was said did exactly that--he was changing the context of what was being said, and THAT is why the producer was rightfully fired. What he/she did was lie to the viewer by making that change.

too many other outlets had the full recording in its unedited entirety and it would be a matter of time before NBC got called on the carpet for altering the contents. Fux noose does it all the time and no one with a scintilla of good sense believes that they report the truth.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Fired ? This would be a promotion At Fox Lies Channel. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

5. Did ABC also fire the "enhanced" video editor who found that magic head wound??

[demgrrrll]

11. Does anyone but me think that enhanced video looks photoshopped? I swear you can almost see

the outlines of a rectangle placed there.

[SemperEadem]

13. ask them.

[bbinacan]

7. Good!

He should be fired.

[RainDog]

8. good n/t

[Iliyah]

9. If it was Fake new

that person would have gotten a promotion.

[MrBig]

10. As the producer should have been n/t

[lynne]

14. Good, they should have been fired -

- Just give me the facts as they occur. I don't need someone else deciding what I should and shouldn't hear. I want to hear it ALL and then form my opinion based on all the details. The media needs to quit the cooking, the hypothesizing, and the reporting of opinion as news.

[KansDem]

15. Time to dust off the ol' resume and fire it off to FOX News

He should be a shoo-in; he's already passed their competency test...