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Related: About this forumManipulative Editing Reflects Poorly On Katie Couric, Gun Documentary
May 26, 20168:11 PM ET
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David Folkenflik
Katie Couric and the creator of a documentary on guns are apologizing to a point for switching around footage to make it falsely appear that members of a Virginia gun rights organization could not summon an answer to a key question on background checks.
An audiotaped recording taken by one of the participants shows otherwise they spoke extemporaneously for several minutes.
In audio posted on the website Ammoland and shared with the Washington Free Beacon, Couric asks a slightly longer version of the question, even saying she knew what their answer would be. She is immediately met with responses.
This manipulation and that's what it was would not pass muster at NPR under its principles for fairness in handling interviews.
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/26/479655743/manipulative-editing-reflects-poorly-on-couric-and-her-gun-documentary
Those darned kids and their audio recorders...
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...our friends on the opposition have sat with the crickets...because...GUNZ!!!
Pretty chicken shit if you ask me. If they were invested with real integrity they'd be taking Couric and her crew to task. This sort of deception from the media is dangerous to us all, regardless of what side of any issue you are on.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Bad editing, miss-matched soundtracks, and miss-identification has been a Hallmark of MSM to this very day. But sometimes the three-day-old mullet at the bottom of he ice chest gets to be too much, and part of MSM will gag in public.
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Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...nothing but
from our pro-control friends. Where is the outrage at Couric and crew for bringing their cause into (further) disrepute?
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Is completely unacceptable. She should be fired. It simply feeds the RW distrust of the "mainstream media." I won't ever trust her again.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)The excuse tendered for inserting the pause was ridiculous in the extreme -- and Couric said she stood behind her associate who made it.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts).........was my lack of surprise that one of the panelists taped the proceedings. He/she knew that Couric was not to be trusted. I would have done the same thing.
beevul
(12,194 posts)History is a good teacher, and clearly, they were paying attention to its lessons.
ileus
(15,396 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,579 posts)When I think of an interview, my preconception is that an interviewer or host will dialog with one or more subjects or guests in order to present (in either a positive or negative light) what they think. The proceedings are then either recorded or broadcast live for the public, sometimes both with shows like Real Time. You don't really have a chance to lie, misrepresent and deceive with live broadcasts. Although even in a live broadcast the interviewer and producers can frame the issue by selecting the questions and topics.
If you want to mess with an interview in order to push your agenda there's a few things you can do. You could edit out things the interviewer said that may annoy or offend those being interviewed. You could edit out some responses or those interviewed which don't fit your narrative. Katie's production staff (who she stands behind and defends) did both certainly with her knowledge and probably at her request.
"Credibility, it's the only currency that means anything on this kind of playing field." - Jon Voight, Enemy of the State.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Smart move to record that too.
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...that an article on this film hasn't been posted in Bansalot. You'd think they'd be cheerleading Couric for taking on gunz, but nope, nothing. Why is that, I wonder?