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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Censors Revealing Moment
When Mitt Romney walked down the aisle toward the stage at the Republican National Convention, among the people whose hands he shook was the conservative billionaire and major political donor David Koch. But it was a moment missed by the tens of millions of viewers at home. While Democracy Now! was there on the floor and captured the handshake on video, the networks cut away just before the handshake to show footage of two enthusiastic young women supporters and then an overhead shot of the convention center. Then, the shot came back to Romney shaking hands further down the aisle as he ascended the stage. Groups in the network of David Koch, and his brother Charles, intend to spend nearly $400 million ahead of the 2012 election.
video & more:
http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/theromney-koch-handshake-network-tv-ce
get the red out
(13,459 posts)It looks to me like they needed to go ahead and get a room!
harun
(11,348 posts)Sheldon Adelson's daughter took their camera and broke it.
OldEurope
(1,273 posts)Is there no possibility for a sort of control for radio or tv? Can you sue a radio station for telling lies? Does free speech include lies?
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)includes telling lies. In fact, Faux won a lawsuit in Florida where they were sued for lying about something (would have to dig up story) but they fought and won because it was "free speech". Bizarre I know.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Or am I thinking of something else?
OldEurope
(1,273 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)that press organizations have no legal responsibility to report truth. Fox News was the test case. Fortunately for me, I learned early not to believe everything I see on television.
http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html
JHB
(37,132 posts)....along the lines of "when he gets near the Kochs, cut to long shot" it might just be the way it worked out.
I saw the side-by-side clip from Democracy Now!, and the network version looked to have pretty typical pacing for an event like this: on the floor following the handshakes, cut to long shot of the whole arena making the big cheers, cut back to floor, etc., rather than one long, dull shot from a single camera.
There was some video booth producer who made the decision to make those cutaways, but keep in mind there were perfectly mundane reasons for doing so, and this was live, not an after-the-fact edit.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)More proof in the USA's case:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021255207
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...$100 million in the form of Ayn Ryan.
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2012/08/did-david-koch-sell-ryan-to-mitt-romney-for-100-million/
Which is, IMFO, why the network feed cut away.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)But didn't realize it came with such a big payload.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)Such a blatant disregard for what faces us as a country.
But they don't want to risk the hundreds of millions the Koch's are pouring into TV ads, I guess.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)and even aired a side-by-side video comparison of the broadcast version and DemocracyNow!'s version set to run so that the timing matched between them. The broadcast version had quickly cut away to some cheerleaders in the arena or something and then cut back to the rope line after the evil handshake was over and satan retreated back out of the camera view. DemocracyNow!'s footage stayed with the rope line the whole time without any cuts of that handshake.