I find this very disturbing!

[lyricae]

strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/6110

newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/09/13/abc-news-edited-out-key-parts-sarah-palin-interview

I have, for some time, been skeptical of mainstream media.  But this is just repulsive to me.  Heading off to attempt to verify with other sources.

Edited to add a second link to another incident of the same

Comments

[llachglin]

After seeing the broadcast version of this interview, I later watched the unedited version. In my opinion, both in reading the transcript and watching the video, the edited bits didn't make her look any better than what they left in. It was just a bad interview all around.

It's very common to edit TV interviews to fit in the available segment. The cut bits just reiterated what she was saying in the parts they retained--the fact that Palin kept repeating herself didn't help. In fact, after watching the unedited version I found the interview even more embarrassing because she repeated herself so often.

[lyricae]

Are you talking about the Katie Couric interview or the Gibson interview? I don't know what I'm defending here :-)

[llachglin]

The Couric interview. Though reading the other interview (I didn't see it) it seems like a similar case.

[lyricae]

I have not been able to find the unedited interview video for the Couric interview, only the transcripts. Could you link it please? I'm interested in seeing it.

[kathrynt]

While you're looking around, let me reiterate Erik's point -- TV interviews are almost always edited, unless they're specifically done live. Keith Olberman, total liberal, interviewed Barack Obama and presented excerpts from it over several days. Check for evidence of the same being done to other candidates.

The problem, of course, comes when that editing is designed to give a fundamentally different impression than the uncut interview, which is a much more subtle charge. I haven't watched either interview; do you think it applies here?

[lyricae]

I do. The Couric interview was specifically edited to make Sarah look indecisive and ignorant. As much as what they left out from what she said is the issue that the pacing made her look as if she were being evasive and fumbling for answers which, as far as I've been able to find she was not doing. I have found text of the interview that claims to be the "full text" but I would like to find unedited video before I make a firm opinion on this one.

If Couric did what it looks like she did here, it is reprehensible. If I am unable to substantiate it, I will let you know.

Thanks

[anonymous]

I appreciate your links. Very informative and helpful. I have to agree with your repulsive statement; way not ok.