{"id":94317,"date":"2016-04-03T13:40:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/syrianpc.com\/en\/?p=94317"},"modified":"2016-04-03T13:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T10:40:52","slug":"white-house-says-technical-issue-caused-omission-of-islamist-terrorism-from-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/?p=94317","title":{"rendered":"White House says \u2018technical issue\u2019 caused omission of \u2018Islamist terrorism\u2019 from video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appeared this week that the White House censored a video of the French president to omit him saying the words \u201cIslamist terrorism\u201d during a speech at a bilateral meeting, but officials claim a technical glitch caused the ill-timed dropped audio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\nThe Media Research Center, a media watchdog, reported Friday that the White House had removed a video of French President Francois Hollande speaking at a press event on terrorism with President Obama.<br \/>\nWhen the video reappeared on the White House website and YouTube, the audio of Mr. Hollande\u2019s translator goes silent just as he says the words \u201cIslamist terrorism,\u201d then begins again at the end of his sentence.<br \/>\nMr. Hollande, speaking in French, was also muted as he uttered the phrase.<br \/>\nBut the official White House Transcript of Mr. Hollande\u2019s remarks included the full sentence:<br \/>\n\u201cBut we\u2019re also well aware that the roots of terrorism, Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we\u2019re doing within the framework of the coalition,\u201d Mr. Hollande said, according to the transcript, but not the video.<br \/>\nPresident Obama, who has come under fire for avoiding phrases such as \u201cradical Islam,\u201d and \u201cIslamic terrorism,\u201d made three mentions of terrorism at Thursday\u2019s meeting, using the phrases \u201chands of terrorism,\u201d \u201cscourge of terrorism\u201d and \u201ccounterterrorism.\u201d<br \/>\nA White House official told the New York Post that the audio gap was the result of a technical error.<br \/>\n\u201cNothing was edited out,\u201d the official told the Post. \u201cA technical issue with the audio during the recording of President Hollande\u2019s remarks led to a brief drop in the audio recording of the English interpretation. As soon as this was brought to our attention, we posted an updated video online with the complete audio, which is consistent with the written transcript.\u201d<br \/>\nAs of 6 p.m. Friday, the White House had posted the original footage with the words \u201cIslamist terrorism\u201d included.<br \/>\nThe Washington Times\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appeared this week that the White House censored a video of the French president to omit him saying the words \u201cIslamist terrorism\u201d during a speech at a bilateral meeting, but officials claim a technical glitch caused the ill-timed dropped audio. The Media Research Center, a media watchdog, reported Friday that the White House had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.syrianpc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}