So we've reached the point where phony photoshopped video is "news"-business-as-usual?

[Faryn Balyncd]

This is a curious backstory in more than one respect, but the thing that blows me away is not that Fox presents phony "news", but that they have obviously created a culture where their producers seem to have absolutely no qualms about overdubbing false, unaccredited sound tracks to an unmatched video track, and then presenting it, straightfaced, on their "news" as something that was said on the house floor.

They seem to be incapable of imagining any other any other business-as-usual, or the possibility that they would be caught, or that anyone would care.

Perhaps they think that news is mythical allegory.... and that there is no point even pretending to report historical facts as they happened, but just create slick, phony stage productions to illustrate, and dress up, their commentary.

We have come a long way from Murrow, Cronkite, and Brinkley.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017155332

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. add points for highlighting the fake work of Fox. take away points for

not just letting that alone. This woman jumps to all kinds of conclusions about the white haired guy as though there was a conspiracy her to get up there and start yelling.

The video evidence clearly shows she goes toward the front and then over to the right of the chamber. There would be no direct view at that time that she is going to rush the dais and start yammering. Then--HEAVENS--when that brief conversation is over with he turns to his phone. He could be doing anything on the phone. Entering his password, replying to a text he just read....but no. He MUST be texting a whole gang to come watch the show now. And finally, he is engrossed in his phone, there is loud ambient noise of people talking and milling about, and the woman's rant is not amplified. So it is not surprising her little outburst didn't register a split second after it started. Notice, less than 2 seconds after she starts he turns to see what it is all about.

Like I said, when independent people highlight stupid shit Foxnews does like splicing audio and video that don't go together--great. But when they have to find something more than what is really there? Lose all credibility

[arcane1]

2. Some of the comments on that DU thread are beyond kooky.

With no audio at work, I can't hear what the narrator is saying. I'm going to consider myself fortunate

[progressoid]

3. We reached that point a long time ago.