Olympics Editing (not FCP-X)

Since so many good editors hang out here, I wanted to mention a post I just put up in Art of the Edit.

I was reading social media and saw two stories that caught my eye about video editing in the Olympics. One taking NBC to task for an edited piece - and another praising an effort from the BBC.

Clearly the NBC thing is something they realized (sadly after the fact) that they should not have released and have since pulled from their sites.

OTOH, the BBC's piece is pretty impressive. (controversial content, but the editing is outstanding, IMO)

This isn't to trash NBC which has done plenty of great editing during the games. It's to note that these stories are out in general circulation and part of the reason they are succeeding or failing is how they were constructed in the edit suite.

I'd be interested in hearing what everyone here thinks.

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