Actually, we’re laughing, but…
I was a journalism student in college when Mick Foley’s autobiography came out.
In it, he detailed the way 20/20 twisted the presentation of his answers to their questions during an interview concerning backyard wrestling.
For instance, they showed Mick a clip of some teens taking some basic bumps while practicing in a ring. They then asked him, “What do you think of that?”
Foley responded, “That looks like fun. If I was a kid, I wouldn’t mind trying that.”
However, during the edited/aired interview, they showed kids getting smacked with fluorescent light bulbs and bloodied with cheese graders. The interviewer asked Mick, “What do you think of that,” and played Mick’s response to the harmless clip shown earlier.
In reality, Mick said he deplored acts of violence like that when shown that clip in the original interview.
But, you would never know that watching the final cut because they played his answer from a different question.
A similar thing happened to Cena when he was asked if he’d ever used steroids.
Both guys were pissed, but legally, there was nothing they or WWE could do because, TECHNICALLY, the deceitful editing these shows committed is ACCEPTABLE in the real world.
Shame.
