Mike Arrington is asking people to help Michael Eisenberg remember--from last night's post-game interviews. I never watch a post-game show. I watched the game. Anyway, if AP altered it, I'm not surprised. My training is academic. It was drilled into me that anything between quotation marks is sacred. Not so to journalists. I learned this to my chagrin when I was in "public life" as an elected school board member. Then I became an editor and learned the inside story. Journalists believe that it's OK to change quotes to fit a) style or b) into the content of the larger story. If the writer and/or the copy editor felt that references to God would be a) extraneous to the story or b) unnecessarily controversial, then they would have no guilt feelings about deleting them. Now the journalist would believe within his heart that no meaning was changed by the editorial changes. You be the judge.
Did the AP alter a SuperBowl quote to remove references to God and religion?. Check out this post by Michael Eisenberg who noticed that the post game speech given by Tony Dungy (now the first black coach to win the SuperBowl), which contained multiple references to God, didn[base ']t match up to the AP article - all references to God and religion were removed. The main quote in question (this is the AP version):
[base "]I[base ']m so proud of our guys,[per thou] Dungy said. [base "]We took the hit early with Devin Hester. We talked about it; it[base ']s going to be a storm. Sometimes you have to work for it. Our guys played so hard and I can[base ']t tell you how proud I am of our group, our organization and our city.[per thou]
Eisenberg is asking for someone with a Tivo to check that the quote is inaccurate (he[base ']s going on memory) - if someone has it please put the clip up on YouTube. If AP did change the quote, this story may blow up.
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