It seems like the editing reported it exactly how it is. Dean plainly said that listening to other peoples' arguments for eight hours would be a waste of time for ordinary people - because they can't be convinced.
JDG At 12:54 AM 1/10/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote: ><<http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003038.html>> > >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 > _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
