Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post

Question for you or AF. Do you think the BBC clip changed the tone/aim/intention behind Trump?s angry words to a largely disappointed and discontented mob and if so, in what way were the BBC lacking accuracy?
If you mean does it change the perception of viewers, yes definitely. If for instance the producers/editors had retained the whole of the first part of the edit, in which Trump almost sounds conciliatory, the tone would have been completely different

If you means would that clip alone have had a different impact to the whole speech, I don't know, I can't put myself in the mindset of someone willing to do harm to people or property, there may be others here more disposed to comment on that

My personal observations, and my jaundiced view of the media is conditioned by these observations, is that the media do this all the time (see my own and Swale's comments above) sometimes to support an agenda, sometimes I'm sure just for buggeration, and it looks like someone is about to get a very bloody nose as a result