Posted by Tina
A documentary on gun violence hosted by Katie Couric was apparently edited to deceptively place people in the documentary in a negative light. The producer claims he didn’t intend, “to make anyone look bad.” He’s got to be either incredibly biased or ignorant…which do you suspect? See video at the link. The audio in question is at the 21:48 mark:
Couric can be heard in the interview asking activists from the group, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?”
The documentary then shows the activists sitting silently for nine awkward seconds, unable to provide an answer. It then cuts to the next scene.
However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to the Washington Free Beacon shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric’s question is met immediately with answers from the activists. A back and forth between a number of the league’s members and Couric over the issue of background checks proceeds for more than four minutes after the original question is asked.
The documentary, “Under the Gun,” has been criticized and labeled as “dishonest politicking in the guise of media coverage,” “loose with the facts,” and “a full-length assault on guns and the Second Amendment” by those in the gun community. Phillip Van Cleve, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense league, said the edited segment was “unbelievable and extremely unprofessional.”
Why do they continue to do this in this age of alternative media? Because there will always be those who will buy into the deception. Pretty sleazy journalism for a so-called professional outfit.
My goodness, a left wing liberal “journalist” purposefully editing their product to deceive. Can anyone say “60 Minutes.”
Best one that comes to my mind is that Democrat video of Planned Parenthood selling Baby parts where the film makers were prosecuted for a falsely edited film.
Oh yea that was not a Democrat film.
“Falsely” edited? Prosecuted? What a weird and twisted world you live in Dupester. Go sell some baby parts and get back to me you sick moron.
Or Dan Rather?
Looks like the director took some lessons from James O’Keefe.
I will never understand people who think they can lie for their cause, or who think they wil get away with it in this day and age. The director’s response is nonsense and a giant dodge. This was absolutely wrong.
Re Chris : “I will never understand people who think they can lie for their cause, or who think they wil get away with it in this day and age.”
Holy moly, that is something you do every day! That is rich.
Please cite a lie I have told on this blog, Pie.
Easy. Every single comment you make misrepresenting and demonizing conservatives, which is ALL you make, you vile and sick radical bastard from hell.
I rest my case.
Your constant false constructions of a disgusting, politically motivated false narrative, that conservatives are white supremacists, bigots, racists, sexists, and xenophobes (the list goes on) pretty much sums everything you post here, Chris.
So, none then. Got it. Thanks!
The cesspool of your mind is, well, a cesspool, Piss Chris.
Always entertaining when media presstitutes like Couric get caught.
“Documentaries” from Lefties are just like the climate change clowns – they start with their preconceived notions and change the facts to fit what they want the result to be.
And it hasn’t occurred to you that maybe the “raw audio” was edited?
Again, Useful Idiot! The left loves peopel like you!
I considered it, Libby–the Washington Free Beacon is typically a cesspool–but the director has already apologized for his “mistake.” This was undeniably an example of a liberal director manipulating the facts for his political agenda.
What ? With voice impersonators?
When it comes to sleazy, Libbya is hard to beat.
Chris weighs in with a typical invective, “cesspool.” Yet the director of the intentionally deceptive piece has “already apologized” so, Couric and company are excused from such invective even though it was “undeniably an example of a liberal director manipulating the facts for his [her] political agenda .
It’s not the first time the MSM has been intentionally deceitful or manipulative of facts. This happens often.
I’d like to know why the lower profile conservative blog is a “cesspool” and the MSM generally considered a reliable trusted sources of information that, “ooops, made a mistake.”
Best one that comes to my mind is that Democrat video of Planned Parenthood selling Baby parts where the film makers were prosecuted for a falsely edited film.
Oh yea that was not a Democrat film.
Tina: “Yet the director of the intentionally deceptive piece has “already apologized” so, Couric and company are excused from such invective even though it was “undeniably an example of a liberal director manipulating the facts for his [her] political agenda .”
I have no idea how you got from my comment that I was “excusing” anyone; the only point of bringing up the apology was to show Libby that yes, this deceptive edit did happen. I even put the word “mistake” in quotation marks to make it clear that this deception was intentional. There is no excusing it. Couric may not have bore culpability for the deceptive editing, but she does bear responsibility for standing by the director’s ridiculous explanation for his deception. There is no excuse here; this was wrong.
Now if only you could admit when deceptive videos are made by conservatives.
Don’t gloat. We, at least, come clean when outed. Now, how did it go with the Planned Parenthood manipulators? Let me see if I remember.
Clean like national security disaster, serial liar, misogynist rapist enabler like Hillary Clinton?
Squeaky clean.
You come clean when outed? Ha!
If I recall Dan Rather dug in his heels and probably refuses to this day to the fact that his stories were built on manipulation and forgery of documents.
As for PP, media (and the justice department) stepped in to provide cover and dismiss the actual words uttered by PP personnel and at least one law that I think was being broken (Highlighted below). “The Bad, Worse, and Ugly: Media Coverage of Planned Parenthood’s Organ Harvesting Scandal” illustrates the way it’s done:
You’re side is mostly covered by media spin. Occasionally the errors and manipulation are so egregious they cannot be adequately helped. That’s when Robert Redford types step in to assure that future generations get their minds right.
All MSM is a bunch of crap. Propaganda for donors. Who watches that crap anyway?
Did not see it nor will I watch it.
The Dupester stuffs his head in the sand. Like no one saw that coming.
Katie Couric regrets her poor decision!!!
Well, duh, now that she has been outed as a propagandist left-wing dirt bag posing as a “journalist.” Katie, it is time for you to retire.
Nah. She just regrets getting so overzealous that she got CAUGHT!