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TV Editing All day long we've seen the television news repeating a short edited segment of a single line taken from a Canadian television show. Here's the full transcript. The discussion centered around the pros and cons of caucuses and primaries: Dean: On a Saturday, is it easy for me to go cast a ballot and spend 15 minutes doing it, or do I have to sit in a caucus for 8 hours? Guest: This is a good thing, though. Dean: I don't think so. I don't have the time to do it. It doesn't get people involved. It drives people out of the process, and leaves the people who are left in the process -- the professional people who get paid to be there. Guest: Let the people in the neighborhoods convince you, say... Dean: They can't convince me. I've got my kid's soccer game. I've got my second job. I've got all these other reasons that I can't do these things. Guest: If that's the case, the 15 minutes you're going to devote to politics in your year is a pretty perfunctory involvement in politics. Dean: Not necessarily. I read the papers, maybe I watch television. I form my opinions, I get to go exercise my opinion. But I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world. Compare this to the way it is reported on television: NBC Voice Over: Dean even suggested the caucuses were a waste of time for ordinary people Dean: �I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world.� The power of editing to create a story. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
