And historical documents were edited to distort the facts.
When videos of Melania and Michelle's similar lines were edited to play side by side, Obama showed warmth, heart, conviction.
Those segments were edited to avoid, among other things, the runners passing between two Nazi flags on the Brandenburg gates.
Existing plantings were edited to showcase the mature pecan and cedar elm trees on the property, while species like yaupon holly and Natchez crape myrtle were added.
We now know that 164 police statements were "significantly amended" of which 116 were edited to "remove negative comments" about the operation.
Mr. Kuchma's aides initially claimed that the recordings were false, but in January they acknowledged that it was the president's voice on the recordings, though they also assert that the tapes were edited to smear Mr. Kuchma.
Mr. Skakel's words, culled from a taped conversation in 1997 between him and the ghostwriter of his autobiography, were edited to imply an admission of guilt, the defense said.
We hear from some comics and actors, but either Carol Burnett, Phyllis Diller, Milton Berle and Roseanne Barr said precious little or they were edited to say precious little.
There was no mention of the incidents in domestic Chinese news media reports, which continued to have an overwhelmingly positive tone, and video clips shown inside China were edited to exclude the miscues.
Every week sees new developments in the investigation of the cover-up of events surrounding the disaster, with a new report finding that 116 of 164 witness statements were edited to remove criticism of South Yorkshire police.
In the pre-digital age, these volumes were edited to deadlines falling months ahead of their publication date, which meant that there could be no question of taking recent results into account.
