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> which is blatantly a lie - they merely edited his words to bring together two distinct sentences in a misleading manner I think merely is not the right word
by Someone 10mo ago
> which is blatantly a lie - they merely edited his words to bring together two distinct sentences in a misleading manner
I think merely is not the right word to use. For example, let’s say I say
in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285977 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285977, ndsipa_pomu wrote “I […] think the lawsuit has merit as […] it seems […] to have made any difference to people's opinions of Trump”
, isn’t that having ndsipa_pomu say things they never said?
- ndsipa_pomu 10mo agoI get your point, but that's just editing text and I did not "say" those words, but typed them - the BBC was broadcasting parts of Trump's speech, so it is literally his words. Also, that's a lot more editing with your example and doesn't entirely make sense without the "not" - there's also the argument that deliberately leaving out negations is a malicious attempt to change the meaning. The BBC editing was "merely" snipping out a bit in the middle - likely due to time constraints. I don't agree with their editing, but it's not in the same ballpark as your example. Incidentally, I have previously raised a complaint with the BBC for one of their news articles when they edited a bike cam video by snipping out a bit in the middle. The removed part showed an aggressive driver performing a dangerous close pass on a group of cyclists, so without that, it made it look like the cyclists were hassling the driver for no reason.
- sigwinch 10mo agoWe’ll see; the edit is not very deceptive to me. Now that he’s claimed he actually never said the words and it was synthesized with AI, the order of words is no longer important.