You won’t hear it anywhere else but here – insiders have told us WTVJ reporter Jeff Burnside was fired last Friday for allegedly editing the Trayvon Martin 911 tape, the same tape NBC aired on ‘Today’ in early April. Allegedly, his firing wasn’t announced internally and so far there is no information whether NBC made a conclusion if the edit was misleading on purpose or if it was an oversight.
The 911 tape from the night of Trayvon Martin’s shooting, as initially aired by NBC, eliminated a question from the 911 dispatcher to George Zimmerman about whether Trayvon was black, white or Hispanic.
What NBC aired was George Zimmerman saying ”This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
However, the actual transcript from that part of the tape is this:
George Zimmerman: 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.
911 Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
George Zimmerman: (pauses briefly) He looks black.
http://www.sfltv.com/2012/wtvj-fires-jeff-burnside-for-allegedly-editing-trayvon-martin-911-tape/
