Lukasiewicz, who left NBC soon after Trump's 2016 election, said "it is hard to imagine that those factors aren’t on the minds of news executives and network executives making these decisions.”
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In a different time, the BBC episode would likely have led to a quick admission of a mistake, a correction, apology and everyone would have moved on, said Mark Lukasiewicz, a former NBC News executive and now dean of Hofstra University's School of Communication.
In Trump-dominated media world, editing video taking on new significance -- as BBC uproar shows
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