Fox News--NBC has launched an internal probe after
running an edited version of the 911 call from George Zimmerman -- the
man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin -- that made Zimmerman sound
racist.
"We have launched an internal investigation
into the editorial process surrounding this particular story," the
network said in a statement to the Washington Post on Monday.
NBC's "Today" show ran the edited audio of
George Zimmerman's phone call to a police dispatcher in which Zimmerman
says: "'This guy looks like he's up to no good … he looks black."
But the audio recording in its entirety
reveals that Zimmerman did not volunteer the information that Martin was
black. Instead, Zimmerman was answering a question from a police
dispatcher about the race of the "suspicious person" whom Zimmerman was
speaking about.
A transcript of the complete 911 call shows
that Zimmerman said, "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."
The 911 officer responded saying, "OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?"
"He looks black," Zimmerman said.
The abridged conversation between Zimmerman
and the dispatcher that NBC ran on March 27 has been blasted by media
watchdog groups as misleading. Critics have said the edited version was
made to suggest that Zimmerman targeted Martin because he was black --
an accusation by many that is still under investigation.
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