Critics condemned ‘NBC Nightly News’ on Wednesday after the Peacock Network’s flagship evening news program omitted important details from a report on the police shooting at Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.
News analyst Nicholas Fondacaro, media research center, called on NBC News to edit part of a wild 911 call in which a woman is heard: “It’s the adult girls trying to fight here, try to stab, come here ! “
NBC did broadcast a short audio clip of the call in which the woman shouted: “We need a police officer here!”
Fondacaro also drew attention to the part of the police’s body camera footage that NBC showed, which he said did not show ‘the knife in the attacker’s hand just before the shots’.
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However, the segment did not hide the fact that Bryant had a knife.
“A police officer shot dead a 16-year-old black girl in Columbus, Ohio, and said she was threatening others with a knife,” NBC anchor Lester Holt began the report.
Throughout the course of the report, an image read at the bottom of the screen: ‘POLICE SKETCH 16-YEAR-OLD BLACK GIRL-HOUMES’ and a still image of the body material showed a knife on the ground.
However, as Fondacaro pointed out, ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening News” both aired the portion of the 911 call that included the reference, and both zoomed in on the footage, which more clearly showed that Bryant holding a knife. during the quarrel.
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“NBC Nightly News” has been hit on social media in light of the strong comparison with the program’s competitors.
“Really something to look at comparing how ABC News treated the story responsibly with how NBC News left out critical details,” conservative writer AG Hamilton responded.
“Is it not at this stage as great as the malice is? The police officer is not a public figure. The report omits important evidence in such a way that it implies intentional deception,” writes Greggory Ingersoll, editor-in-chief of Daily Caller . .
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“To omit an important fact, such as the fact that the knife is clearly visible in her hand as she swings it to the other girl, is willful and deliberately misleading,” Washington reporter Jerry Dunleavy tweeted.
“Lester Holt gave a speech on facts and truth two weeks ago,” political commentator Stephen Miller hit the NBC anchor.
“No surprise here, but NBC was much more dishonest than CBS and ABC in its coverage of the Columbus incident,” concluded Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross.
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As Miller alluded to, Lester Holt recently accepted an award for journalism and commented in which he claimed that ‘it has become clear that equity is overestimated’, adding that ‘the idea that we always have two parties equal weight and merit should give does not reflect. the world in which we find ourselves. ‘
“That the sun is setting in the west is a fact. Any opposing view does not deserve our time or attention,” Holt said. “Decisions not to make arguments at the same time are not a weakening of journalistic responsibility or a kind of agenda. In reality, it is just the opposite. Providing an open platform for misinformation, so that everyone can come and say “Just what they want, especially when public health and safety issues are at stake, can be very dangerous. Our duty is to be honest with the truth.”