Hmmmm
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. What point is he making? That cutaways are a device for distorting an interviewee's words? That all cutaways are doing this? That TV journalists constantly misrepresent interviewees? That all journalists are "unscrupulous", as he says?
Yes, some newspapers have been known to do it, but TV in Britain is heavily regulated by OFCOM and anything like it would be picked up on and the organisation would be punished.
The example he uses is from an obscure programme on conspiracy theories, so you should already have a large pinch of salt at hand. It's not, you'll note, from a reputable news programme like the BBC, ITV or Sky.
It just doesn't happen.
(, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:13, Reply)