{"id":27305,"date":"2012-04-09T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27305"},"modified":"2012-04-08T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T15:59:30","slug":"nbc-curing-root-rot-by-trimming-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27305","title":{"rendered":"NBC: &#8220;Curing Root Rot By Trimming Leaves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-911-call-manipulated-nbc-309258\">NBC identified and whacked a fall guy for the fraudulent, narrative-based editing<\/a> of the George Zimmerman 911 call we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27266\">talked about<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NBC News has fired the producer it deemed most responsible for the airing of a selectively edited 911 call placed by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Sources at NBC who asked not to be identified confirmed a New York Times story saying that a Miami-based producer was fired Thursday, though the sources refused to identify the former employee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In the original 911 call, Zimmerman is heard describing Martin as such: \u201cThis guy looks like he\u2019s up to no good. Or he\u2019s on drugs or something. It\u2019s raining and he\u2019s just walking around, looking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dispatcher then asks: \u201cOK, and this guy \u2013 is he white, black or Hispanic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looks black,\u201d Zimmerman responds.<\/p>\n<p>The version NBC ran, though, was much shorter and did not include the question posed by the 911 operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy looks like he\u2019s up to no good. He looks black,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the producer who let the narrativizing of the news slip out too clumsily was sacked. \u00a0The executives whose policy &#8220;narrative-based news) actually\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0are still being chauffeured around New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC identified and whacked a fall guy for the fraudulent, narrative-based editing of the George Zimmerman 911 call we talked about last week. NBC News has fired the producer it deemed most responsible for the airing of a selectively edited 911 call placed by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin. Sources at NBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[214,195],"class_list":["post-27305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-victim-disarmament","tag-martin-zimmerman-case","tag-stand-your-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27318,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27305\/revisions\/27318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}