“The editing of the segment was initially noticed by NewsBusters, an arm of the Media Research Center, a conservative media monitoring group.”
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I consider this a milestone event. First with Rathergate, and continuing now with this episode, it is becoming more and more clear that the Left cannot fabricate unanswered, lying propaganda any longer.
I wish we had a time machine so that, for example, all the damage wrought by the lying Comrade Walter Cronkite, regarding the clear American victory during the Vietnam Wars’s Tet offensive, could be negated.
Nice work Brent Bozell.
They can manufacture fiction faster than an army of fact checkers can rebut it. And the rebuttals don;t get the same publicity as the original fiction does.
Not saying fact checking and calling them out isn't worth the effort, just saying that the strategy has to be to pick and choose which of the lies to go after.
The bigger bang, and it has been going on, and it will continue to go on, is to damage their reputation, so that people don't trust what they say. Then there is no need to check them.
CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC probably drew straws to figure out which of them would go with the version that got NBC is trouble.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you. They throw out these huge lies and distortions, make hay out of them for days/weeks/months and after they get busted, every ones attention gets focused on something else.
Then you see two sentences buried on page 12C saying, sorry for the error.
They make their point and get the public going the direction they want and never suffer any real sanction for their treachery.
That is what needs to change.
We need to flood the FCC with letters asking that local affiliates not have licenses renewed for trying to start a race war through pure lies. It probably will do no good, but would be a start.
That was exactly what I was thinking as well. Before the Internet and before Talk Radio, most of us removed from an incident had now way of either knowing the truth. And those closely involved, such as the GIs 12,000 miles away who kicked the crap out of the Commies during Tet, had no way of knowing the lies Cronkite (may he burn in Hell) was telling.
Things are far different today. Citizens can be both reporters and editors, and the old guard media does not like that.
We no longer need to rely on them, and the more we see, the less we trust them.
And let us not forget that it was a FReeper, Buckhead, who first revealed that the Bush/Rather memos were fabricated..
So NBC got caught and has given us an ersatz “apology” and grossly insulted our intelligence while giving it. BFD.
They accomplished their goal. You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. There is absolutely way the damage caused can be rectified. That was the game plan from the get go.