With regard to media manipulation:
Altering The Zimmerman Tape - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
lol NBC doctored the tapes, presumably to promote the racist theme.
Remember, when it comes to media, buyer beware. If you buy their bullshit at face value, you may look like a dope later.
Altering The Zimmerman Tape - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
NBC apologizes for doctoring the 911 tapes so as to make it seem that Zimmerman raised Trayvon Martin's skin color for no real reason. The NBC tape made the conversation sound like this:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black.
The actual conversation went like this:
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 black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
This is a little too cute to write off as unconscious mistake. Moreover, as my old boss Erik Wemple reports, there's no real explanation in NBC's apology. Unconscious or not, altering the tape in this way was incredibly unfair to Zimmerman, and incredibly stupid for NBC . How did they not think they would be caught? The real tape is out there.
lol NBC doctored the tapes, presumably to promote the racist theme.
Remember, when it comes to media, buyer beware. If you buy their bullshit at face value, you may look like a dope later.