This is a great clip–I confess I’ve watched it through more than one time. It is so rare to see a convergence of passion and intelligence in someone that is being interviewed from CBS or CNN or whatever.
This is instructive because it shows the devious wordsmithery (word of the day) that people in the media use. Van der Veen (henceforth referred to as MVDV because “van der Veen” is too long and “Veen” is a weird way of doing it) mentions the evidence tampering and Zak performs a really subtle move, she rephrases the charge of evidence tampering in the most benign possible way. “Oh, you mean like where they added a little checkmark and changed 2020 to 2021?” This is like describing a shooting as someone “pulling a trigger”.
MVDV’s response is appropriately disgusted with her (and really the whole news media–she just happened to be the lucky one in the wrong place at the wrong time) but I think to reach the younger crowds you need a little more snarkiness. I would be willing to pay royalties every time I watch this video if he had just said something like, “Hey, Lana, hold on, yeah, let me just call my colleagues and let them know that just a little bit of evidence tampering is OK now!”
Anyway, click below to watch. It is worth a watch-through (or three).