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But they are "Fair and Balanced"!

Can't be accurate.

After all, according to the self-professed legal scholar morethana, it's illegal to release names of employees who have been fired.

Haven't you heard?

Why no mention of the fact that we now have confirmed reports that three separate NBC reporters/journalists altered at least four separate reports to shape their narrative? Interesting to note that none of those three employees worked together, but all engaged in the same dishonest activities.

Isn't that the least bit disconcerting to you, or has your preoccupation with them firing these employees blinded you to the systemic toxicity emanating from their news department?
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Jeff Burnside was dismissed from network-owned NBC Miami (WTVJ) over a similarly edited clip on Friday, as first reported by South Florida news blog SFLTV.

According to the Miami Herald, ***two unidentified employees were also disciplined***.

NBC Miami said in an "edit explanation" posted Wednesday evening that it broadcast the edited call March 19, confirming it ran ***several days BEFORE*** the controversial "Today" clip.

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she was let go over ***an entirely DIFFERENT error*** from the one that has roiled the division.

"at least ***two of her reports*** appear to have been scrubbed from the "Today" website"
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Back to your end zone sack dance. Wake me up when they get back to reporting the news instead of creating news and inserting themselves right in the middle of it.

Wow... editing 911 tapes to frame GZ as a racist psycho ...

I can't wait until all the real facts of what happened come out in the trial ....

Walter Cronkite where are you?

They should be, but they're not.

Please tell me the last "race war" that was spurred by FOX News reporting.

The NBPP is the one calling for this based on the irresponsible reporting on the part of NBC.

Additionally, I agree with you that any deliberate alteration of evidence in order to support the agenda of a "reporter" is grounds for firing. If FOX has failed to do so in the past, that is wrong and they should have fired that person.

I will also point out that CBS did not fire Dan Rather for the Bush Forgeries. He stepped aside from his chair on-air, but continued to run the CBS news organization. So, neither side of the political aisle has their hands clean on this matter.

The difference is that in THIS case the alteration of evidence has lead to an explosive situation that has community leaders putting bounties on other people's heads and calling fro a race war.

Proof, please.

PS -- Greta is a pretty hard-core lib and one of the most respected legal journalists in her field. I find it odd that she was the darling of the left while she was at CNN, and as soon as she got to FOX she became persona-non-grata.

Greta is NOT a hard core lib. She used to be liberal, but shows little sign of it now.

Not a lie at all. Just an aspiring NBC reporter playing loose with the facts.

You made that comment four days ago, so it's not like I had the verbiage memorized.

http://usc.247sports.com/Board/59419/Fox-and-Its-Friends-9307501/2

You implied there could be legal implications involved, which is where I got the term illegal from.

While you are correct in that NBC did not release the names of these two recent employees fired, if anything, it gives more credence to the notion that a producer was never fired for the blunder that was played nationally.

After all, TVNewser and the Miami Herald had no problem getting the names of these two employees who were fired, but not one third-party media outlet has been able to acquire the name of this producer who was allegedly fired.

Do you think that no one was poking around trying to find out his name to confirm their reports, or has all of his colleagues just suddenly clammed up and circled the wagons to protect his identity?
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Morethanafan: You keep claiming to be so business savvy. For fear of legal action, **no business** discusses employee decisions by name. In fact, claiming that they fired someone for this is extra ordinary, probably to protect their reputation. Stating a name is not likely under any circumstace. Can you name one Fox employee fired for making false statements?
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This is the danger of trial by media. Of course this case is controversial, but we should let justice take its course. There was clearly enough evidence to bring the case to trial, but some of the media 'enthusiasm' was less objective purveyor of justice than a response to channel the outrage over the incident into being judge, jury and executioner. FOX News is, of course, the most dishonest 'news' channel in the Western world, but this is on NBC and I am glad they took action.

But people get caught all the time and nothing happens. I do think the public mood, the feeling (rightly, IMHO) that not charging Zimmerman at least was absurd, and the need for a scoop in the 24 hr news media led to some serious errors in judgment.

Weak on the Hannity 'crops'.