The Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Censors Revealing Moment

[JHB]

7. OK, was it really censorship? Unless there were instructions...

....along the lines of "when he gets near the Kochs, cut to long shot" it might just be the way it worked out.

I saw the side-by-side clip from Democracy Now!, and the network version looked to have pretty typical pacing for an event like this: on the floor following the handshakes, cut to long shot of the whole arena making the big cheers, cut back to floor, etc., rather than one long, dull shot from a single camera.

There was some video booth producer who made the decision to make those cutaways, but keep in mind there were perfectly mundane reasons for doing so, and this was live, not an after-the-fact edit.