tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071902461091922642.post1048435656174682705..comments2024-01-29T18:44:38.992-05:00Comments on News Cycle: Fat or Facts? What Murdoch Said and How Olbermann Watch Got It WrongUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071902461091922642.post-83837675136705624532009-02-07T19:14:00.000-05:002009-02-07T19:14:00.000-05:00I have listened to the audio and can confirm that ...I have listened to the audio and can confirm that whoever wrote the transcript completely butchered it.<BR/><BR/>The Murdoch quote comes at about the 18-minute mark of the full investor call (not the 8-minute mark)<BR/><BR/>Here's what the transcript reported:<BR/>"Even on [finance] terms, we have never been a company that tolerates facts."<BR/><BR/>Here's what Murdoch actually said:<BR/>"Even in PLUSH TIMES, we have never been a company that tolerates fat."<BR/><BR/>The actual quote makes more sense.<BR/><BR/>I'm glad I finally listened to the audio because seeing the bracketed words in a transcript worried me. It meant the person writing the transcript substituted his or her own words for what was actually said, and that can be dangerous in the hands of the wrong people.<BR/><BR/>Clearly in this case the person misheard not only "fat" as "facts," but couldn't make out that Rupert said "plush times," thought "times" was "terms," and then filled in his mistaken blank.<BR/><BR/>Very, very sloppy transcript.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071902461091922642.post-60958452311008631942009-02-07T18:17:00.000-05:002009-02-07T18:17:00.000-05:00I'm not quite clear how on the one hand you say yo...I'm not quite clear how on the one hand you say you want to hear the audio before making a judgment, while simultaneously claiming that "Olbermann Watch got it wrong."<BR/><BR/>Why don't you listen to the audio then before deciding that Keith was correct? I'll make it even easier for you...it's about 8 minutes in:<BR/><BR/>http://www.newscorp.com/investor/index.html<BR/><BR/>Did Olbermann Watch "get it wrong" about Keith doctoring what Bill O'Reilly said? You skipped over that part of the post, but it is just as illustrative.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading Olbermann Watch, and do let us know your thoughts after you finally get around to listening to the audio for yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com