Jeff Burnside Reportedly Fired For Apparent Prejudicial Edit
From Talk Left
By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed Apr 25, 2012 at 05:13:34 PM EST
From Talk Left
By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed Apr 25, 2012 at 05:13:34 PM EST
Update: NBC 6 Miami acknowledges its mistake for its March 19 report and story with the misleading edit of George Zimmerman's call to police. Apparently, the Today show's erroneous and prejudicial edits were separately done and unrelated. NBC 6 Miami does not address why it waited until April 9 to correct the articles, or why another of its reporters whose byline appeared on one of the stories using the false quote repeatedly maintained on Twitter on April 10 that the producer responsible was not on their team, but from New York (see tweets below.)
The Miami Herald confirms it was Jeff Burnside who was fired, and has his reaction. The Herald credits but does not name the conservative bloggers who outed NBC 6 Miami's March 19 mangling of Zimmerman's quote. They are, as I said in my April 9 post on the topic, Les Jones and Tom McGuire. [More...]
The Miami Herald confirms it was Jeff Burnside who was fired, and has his reaction. The Herald credits but does not name the conservative bloggers who outed NBC 6 Miami's March 19 mangling of Zimmerman's quote. They are, as I said in my April 9 post on the topic, Les Jones and Tom McGuire. [More...]
Various sources are reporting that NBC 6 Miami reporter/producer Jeff Burnside has been fired over the racially-charged misquoting of George Zimmerman's 911 call to Sanford Police.
An NBC network producer who we’re told only took the edited tape from WTVJ, without checking it (I’m told it’s not unusual since it comes from an affiliate) and could not have known about the edit was also fired in this incident.On April 9, building on work by Les Jones and Tom McGuire, I followed the evolution of the misquote of George Zimmeran's call on NBC 6 Miami and discovered two, not one, Today Show airings. My post included all the relevant screengrabs from the originally published and updated versions of three articles with the misquote appearing on the station's website, and the two Today Show airings.
The first article with the bad edit was by Christina Hernandez, Jeff Burnside and Edward B. Colby on March 19. Christina Hernandez is also the author of the article I found that was published later that night (screengrab with quote here), while Jeff Burnside is the author of the March 20 article. The Today show segments aired March 22 and March 27.
....So the blatant, racially charged distortion of George Zimmerman's 911 call started on NBC 6 Miami on March 19, appearing in two articles by three different writers. It was repeated on March 20 in an article attributed to one of the three writers. The articles have been updated, but the quotes remain. The falsely portrayed quote aired on the Today Show on March 22 during a live segment with reporter Lilia Luciano, and again on March 27 with reporter Ron Allen.Now I'm wondering, why was Burnside fired and not Christina Hernandez? And why was Christina Hernandez so insistent on April 10 that the edited version was fed to them by NBC New York?
Hernandez's tweeted all morning on April 10, 2012, saying the edit was by a producer in New York and fed to the affiliate. The tweets have since been deleted, but I saved them at the time, adding date stamps for those that only reflected the time and not the date.
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