Last week, former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of ghastly child sex charges. His lawyers are working on his appeal, and may be able to use a questionable NBC edit of Sandusky’s interview with Bob Costas to form part of that appeal:
Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky sought a mistrial before his conviction for child sex abuse on the grounds that prosecutors showed jurors an inaccurate version of a bombshell NBC News interview with the former football coach, and the mistake may now form part of the basis for an appeal.
In response to a subpoena, NBC News turned over three versions of Bob Costas’ NBC News interview with Sandusky, which aired last November on different NBC shows.
One of those versions, which was broadcast on the ‘Today’ show, contained an erroneous repetition of a key question and answer – about whether Sandusky was sexually attracted to young boys, Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general said on Sunday.
The repetition, Sandusky’s lawyers contend, made it appear to jurors that he was stonewalling.
“It wasn’t noticed by (NBC News), it wasn’t noticed by us, but it became obvious when it played in court,” Frederiksen told Reuters.
NBC News spokeswoman Amy Lynn confirmed this account on Sunday.
NBC “News” releases an awful lot of “bad edits.”
“The mistrial request was denied by Judge John Cleland, who sought to remedy the situation by providing the jury with an accurate transcript of the exchange, another Sandusky attorney Karl Rominger said.”
This is a toxic case. As the main crux of the case is the credibility of the victims, that forms the basis for the verdict, not the NBC edit. The judge cured the error by providing the accurate transcript. I expect the appeals court to render a “harmless error” judgment.
But can we now completely ignore NBC “news?” Weekend update on SNL is the only credible news they now have.
Everyone must read the Reuters article in full.
As I said before, the rot runs very deep at NBC News and it’s not just affecting the political reporting. At first, I blamed Bob Costas for the problems with this interview, because he’s a bigfoot at NBC Sports and is notoriously arrogant and control-freakish. Yet once again, the slippery editing arises from the Today show’s production.
First, the egregious editing of Zimmerman’s 911 call. Followed by the most confused and secretive set of apologies and corrective actions possible, both in New York and Miami. Incidentally, we still don’t know the name of the producer on Today (national edition) who was disciplined, then terminated. Then, Ann Curry is not only unceremoniously dumped with less than a year on the show, but her termination/ reassignment was leaked days’ in advance. And they’re forking over $10 million to her. Now, the editing of the Sandusky interview.
The prosecution screwed up: they trusted NBC News.
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