CNN does some selective editing
August 8, 2008 · Written by Steve M · Print This Post
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More media bias. Confederate Yankee gives us the scoop on some creative editing by writers at CNN. Raymond Hunter Geisel recently threatened the president and presidential candidate Barack Obama. He said the comments in front of witnesses and got turned in.
The Associated Press story mentions that both Obama and G.W. Bush were mentioned in the threats, but the edited CNN story left out the reference to Geisel wanting to put a bullet in the current president’s head.
Again, nice wrap up provided by Confederate Yankee. He updated his post last night, after CNN turned off comments and re-edited the article.
Sometime later—perhaps the 8:19PM update now showing—CNN finally posted the entire story, including the threats made by the suspect against President Bush.
After 3-4 hours of letting half-truths percolate to establish the narrative, CNN then they filled in the rest of the story, after the damage was done.
They could have posted the correct story, the entire story, before 4:00 PM. CNN posted only part of the story, allowing paranoia, biases, and dark fantasies to fester. All of these raging emotions would have been muted, if not eliminated, if it was revealed what CNN know for the beginning, which was the fact that Bush was also a target of Geisel’s rage.
CNN significantly altered a story to play upon people’s fears.
That cannot lightly be excused.
They did it since they know that they have been able to get away with it in the past. No longer.
Malkin is now on this with comments flowing.
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