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And then there were three.
A third NBC employee has been fired from the network after yet
another misleadingly edited George Zimmerman 911 tape surfaced from the
Trayvon Martin shooting.
Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based correspondent, “is no longer working for the network,” TVNewser reports. Her firing follows the axing of an NBC producer who
edited the original 911 call that caused so much controversy as well as
a local NBC reporter, Jeff Burnside, who was found to have used a similarly-edited recording.
TVNewser explains what happened with the latest incident:
In a story for the “Today” show on March 20, Luciano used part of the George Zimmerman 911 call in which an entire phrase (italicized below) was taken from a later part of the conversation:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good or on drugs or something. He’s got his hand in his waistband. And he’s a black male.
Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Okay, we don’t need you to do that.
But here’s how the call really went:
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 white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
NBC confirmed to Newser that Luciano is no longer with the network
after having joined them a short 18 months ago from Univision. Her
firing came after an internal investigation into the incident.
Media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC) excoriated NBC over the
news, especially considering the network has yet to deliver an on-air
apology (it has, however, done so via a statement).
“Despite Steve Capus, NBC News president, admitting they ‘probably’ should have apologized on-air, NBC still has yet to do so,” MRC’s president, Brent Bozell, said in a statement. “Even the local NBC affiliate that doctored the clip has fired the offender and apologized and retracted on-air.”
“Own up to your dishonesty, NBC,” he added, “tell your audience the truth for once and for all.”
This story has been updated with reaction
The Media is no longer a news outfit, but an entertainment source. They have to create stories and events now. Zimmerman just happened to be on a slow news cycle
As soon as CNN started their 24hr news cycle I told my wife that news as we had known it was gone forever.
Now evidence is coming out of him being assaulted and defending himself -- evidence that the news media, including your beloved NBC, tried to cover up and withhold.
The more I hear and read about this case, the more I am starting to think Zimmerman is innocent. I don't know that for sure, of course, and it's up to the legal system to sort that out.
But it's gotten to the point where the liberal media are trying to tell a story that they WANT to be true. Not what is actually true.
Now if you or I were there we would have rushed to his aid and probably saved Martin by pulling him off Zimmerman or at least scaring him away. As it was, Zimmerman felt he was in an in extremis situation and the only option was to use deadly force.
You are responding with emotion. This is apparent in the way you keep calling him a boy. "Boys" Martin's age kill other people all the time so your argument is weak if feel Zimmerman should has viewed him as no threat. Your are trying a man based on mob mentality.
If Zimmerman's account is true that Martin attacked him and Zimmerman felt his life was in imminent threat of death the shooting was justified. The jury will decided based on the evidence. Not on this media circus
You are trapped in hyperbole.
Because it would make a "minority martyr" out of Trayvon Martin, whose death the liberals can then exploit to push a social agenda.
That social agenda would consist of the idea that ethnic minorities in America are so oppressed and victimized that major social changes are needed. Major liberal social changes, that is.
I guess it's more of the "Do as we say, not as we do" lib nazi tactics, huh?
Nor would that matter anyways. But either way they are incorrect. The dispatcher DID (correctly) advise him he was no longer legally obligated to keep following Martin but you see the way its changed.
And I will say it again: For all we know Zimmerman is a kook and guilty or did bad things. Maybe?
But what the liberal media is doing is working this into an agenda. No matter what happens or not.