After reading how NBCnews edited the 911 call <www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-nightly-news-makhia-bryant-shooting-911-call-edit-out> that demanded police assistance, which led to the shooting of a knife wielding teen in Columbus, Ohio, I tweeted what you read below suggesting NBCnews should fire themselves. They locked my account. In Jack Dorsey’s twitterland, where inconvenient facts about a preferred presidential candidate are censored, so is criticism of news sources that purposely edit facts for a preferred viewer impression.
At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, this kind of twitter behavior is a warning sign of, no, a hallmark, of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. It’s bad enough not having a free press that reports news without advocacy, but to squelch criticism of it, reveals the mindset of our silicon valley overlords.
Let me just add, in this particular case, if I was harassing @NBCnews, @NBCnews harassed the entire country by misrepresenting the facts of an important news event in what even CNN called “journalistic malpractice.”
But I wonder who could have been so thin-skinned and petty? I can only imagine, but I guess I’d better block them to prevent this inconvenience from happening again.
