One of my favorite editing "mistakes" (mistake my ass) came from NBC news during the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin case when they ran George Zimmerman's 911 call. They did run George Zimmerman's words all right but in trying to portray him as a racist, they conveniently omitted the dispatcher's question which George Zimmerman answered "He looks black". Some great journalism there, eh? Transcript excerpt below:
Zimmerman: Hey we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a
real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, urn, the best address I can
give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. 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 white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
In current events, in CNN's hatred of Trump, they did the story of the Arizona guy who took the drug that Trump is touting but the guy died. But conveniently, they failed to tell their viewers that it was not the same drug. It had a similar name but it was a phosphate and was a fish tank cleaner. So it's just more fun to pin the death on Trump. Why let the facts get in the way.
And it's just more fun to show Italian hospital chaos and portray it as an American hospital. Why let the facts get in the way.
There has never been a more appropriate term in this day of "journalism" than "fake news".
