NPR-Sting Video Is Edited To Be Misleadingly
source: http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/03/13/the-twisty-bent-truth-of-the-npr-sting-video/
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James O'Keefe, the controversial conservative activist and undercover-video maker, brought down NPR's CEO this week after releasing a "sting" video of an NPR fundraiser meeting with fake Muslim "donors." Now a video editor, having reviewed the full, two-hour film that O'Keefe also posted online, has done a close analysis showing that several key scenes were edited misleadingly, and quotes taken out of context, in the more-publicized short form of the video. Interestingly, the critique came from The Blaze—an online outlet from none other than conservative host Glenn Beck.
You can read the full post, with video clips, at The Blaze, but the highlights include:
* A quote in which Schiller seems to respond amusedly to a reference on the fake group's website to promoting Sharia law--"Really? That's what they said?"--is lifted from an entirely unrelated part of the lunch
* The edited video includes Schiller saying that liberals "might be more educated, fair and balanced" than conservatives; but it omits his saying that he used to be a Republican--and is proud of it--and a fellow NPR fundraiser defending conservatives, saying that she knows and went to school with highly educated conservatives.
* A one-minute stretch where the audio goes into a loop while the video keeps playing unaltered may be intentional, perhaps to omit dialogue; says Blaze, it "could be an actual glitch, though not one I've seen like this in 25 years of working with video editing"
* The edited video quotes Schiller saying that the Republican party has been "hijacked" by Tea Party conservatives, who he seems to describe as "racist"; the full video shows that--at least at the beginning of his quote--he is explicitly describing the views of wealthy Republican friends who voted for Obama
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You can read the full post, with video clips, at The Blaze, but the highlights include:
* A quote in which Schiller seems to respond amusedly to a reference on the fake group's website to promoting Sharia law--"Really? That's what they said?"--is lifted from an entirely unrelated part of the lunch
* The edited video includes Schiller saying that liberals "might be more educated, fair and balanced" than conservatives; but it omits his saying that he used to be a Republican--and is proud of it--and a fellow NPR fundraiser defending conservatives, saying that she knows and went to school with highly educated conservatives.
* A one-minute stretch where the audio goes into a loop while the video keeps playing unaltered may be intentional, perhaps to omit dialogue; says Blaze, it "could be an actual glitch, though not one I've seen like this in 25 years of working with video editing"
* The edited video quotes Schiller saying that the Republican party has been "hijacked" by Tea Party conservatives, who he seems to describe as "racist"; the full video shows that--at least at the beginning of his quote--he is explicitly describing the views of wealthy Republican friends who voted for Obama
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