WTVJ Fires Reporter Jeff Burnside for Allegedly Editing Trayvon Martin 911 Tape

sfltv.com ^ | 4/25/12

[SoFloFreeper]

You won’t hear it anywhere else but here – insiders have told us WTVJ reporter Jeff Burnside was fired last Friday for allegedly editing the Trayvon Martin 911 tape, the same tape NBC aired on ‘Today’ in early April. Allegedly, his firing wasn’t announced internally and so far there is no information whether NBC made a conclusion if the edit was misleading on purpose or if it was an oversight.

[Spunky]

Jeff Burnside

Kind of a smug looking guy.

[lonevoice]

Perfect, LOL!

[WashingtonSource]

Looks gay to me. But then all the male announcers on TV look and act gay — and most of them are.

[rwfromkansas]

With it being the Miami market, I am almost sure an editor worked on the actual editing. Reporters do edit their tapes, but typically in smaller markets.

[Spunky]

"Looks gay to me. But then all the male announcers on TV look and act gay.."

Could be. It is the IN thing now.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Mmmmhmmm. My gay-dar is off the scales, here.

[2nd amendment mama]

From his bio: Burnside is also a frequent invited speaker and panelist on environmental journalism and journalism ethics.

He blew that big time.....LOL Wonder who is going to pay him to speak on ethics now...

[MrB]

Great! and so’s our daughter.... uh... Valerie Bertinelli... that’s right... that’s the ticket.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

With that hair, he could be John Edwards’ brother.

[Dengar01]

I'm in Illinois but that reporter's name sounds familiar. Is he on National News regularly or writes columns?

Oh libel against the reporter? I want blood libel on Trayvon's baby momma and baby daddy. Jesse Jackson and Sharpton belong in jail for infighting racial violence nation wide. And ABC, MSNBC / NBC and CNN should be shut down for lying on the airwaves.

[rawhide]

NBC does not know whether is was intentional or a mistake. It is obvious it was intentional, deliberate, and provoking! The reporter was trying to make a name for themselves.

[dead]

I smell vinegar.

[OLDCU]

John Edwards wanna be.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Love the hair.

[tacticalogic]

The reporter was trying to make a name for themselves.

Looks like he tried to manufacture an opportunity for himself to get a local exclusive on a race war.

Now that they've got them all stirred up, how many are going to die in the riots when they can't get a conviction?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Sheesh. Take it up the bum one time and people have you pegged.

[cicero2k]

I bet they are deleting e-mails and text conversations over there as we speak. Not to mention shredders.

He definately has the network news anchor hair.

It took right wing talk radio to call NBC out on this.

[Moose4]

“Stay classy, South Florida.”

}:-)4

[teeman8r]

nothing on air is an accident...

it shows because someone wants it to.

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[wardaddy]

guarantee his name is more ethnic than Burnside...