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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Edit

Aired 9/25/06 The Edit

Where is the real seat of media bias? Is it the leather high-backs in boardrooms and executive suites? The sensible cloth swivel chairs in News Directors offices? Or the ones at reporters' desks? Actually that place where bias is hardest to avoid, or easiest to insert, are the work chairs in the editing bays where audio and video are snipped and trimmed for broadcast. Its where some junior staffer is told to 'get ten seconds of tape to go with this story' or 'scrounge up some B-Roll to illustrate this'. It involves some very fine judgements about what is interesting or not, and the movement of the edit cursor just a bit one way or another can make a senator, president or pope sound brilliant or foolish.

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