>..> Defamation of character?
Can't you put in a lawsuit for that?
Nope. Well, you can try, but you'll end up losing because of some stuffty technicality or something.
Anyway, the editing thing happened to my mother when I was like four. The news crews gathered up some people from the homeschooling group I was in and asked them questions while they all sat on a couch in my mother's house. There was a clock above the couch, too.
When it finally aired on fux local news, they had blacked out the clock so nobody would notice the time on it rapidly changing when they edited everyone in the group at one point or another. They actually made it look like one of them had a seizure at random times.