Last night’s not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial will enable the neighborhood-watch volunteer to resume his case against NBC News for the mis-editing of his widely distributed call to police. Back in December, Zimmerman sued NBC Universal Media for defamation over the botched editing, which depicted him as a hardened racial profiler.

Here’s how NBC News, in a March 27, 2012, broadcast of the “Today” show, abridged the tape of Zimmerman’s comments to a police dispatcher on the evening of Feb. 26, 2012:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

The full tape went like this:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about. Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.

NBC Universal Media responded to the Zimmerman complaint by noting that other media outlets played up the racial angle of Zimmerman’s deadly encounter with Trayvon Martin.

The company also noted the pivotal nature of the second-degree murder case: “[I]f Zimmerman is convicted, that fact alone will constitute substantial evidence that the destruction of his reputation is the result of his own criminal conduct, and not of the broadcasts at issue which, like countless other news reports disseminated by media entities throughout the country, reported on the underlying events.”

That formulation is now null.

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Read more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik...ainst-nbc-news/

With the “not guilty” verdict last night in the George Zimmerman trial, Zimmerman’s attorneys are setting their sights on the media… most notably NBC News.

It was on NBC’s “Today,” regular readers may recall, that a severely out of context spliced clip of Zimmerman was played. A number of NBC News staffers lost their jobs over the edits, and Zimmerman’s legal team subsequently sued.

That case was put to the side, pending the outcome of the criminal trial, but now that Zimmerman has been found not guilty, they plan to move forward. The Washington Post has more:

During the post-trial press conference, Zimmerman’s lawyer Mark O’Mara criticized the media for playing “mad scientist” and portraying Zimmerman as a “monster.” USA Today has the video.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/with...e-media_b188189

Good. I hope they sue and win.

Go get them.

I hope he sues the pants off of them.

Did anyone see the reaction of Nancy Grace? And Jane Velez-Mitchell? I thought they were each going to have a stroke right on the air.

I wonder if the Commies and race hustlers at PMSLSD will be forced to go quite on this while the case is pending to keep them from getting into any more hot water?