NBC Might Pay the Price for Making Zimmerman Look Like a Racist

I think it would be difficult to defend the fact that NBC was trying to provide a narrative on this case and edited the 911 call to reflect that.

The call viewers heard was trimmed to suggest that Zimmerman volunteered to police, with no prompting, that Martin was black: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black."

But the portion of the tape that was deleted had the 911 dispatcher asking Zimmerman if the person who had raised his suspicion was "black, white or Hispanic," to which Zimmerman responded, "He looks black."

Someone made an editorial decision to remove the 911 dispatcher so NBC could keep the narrative as "evil racist guy kills innocent black kid in cold blood." They did not wait until facts were available but just rushed to judgement.