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I wonder if anyone actually thought they were looking at a tachometer in a Toyota with a jammed accelerator as the car and its occupants, convenient videographe
by ascuttlefish 17y ago
I wonder if anyone actually thought they were looking at a tachometer in a Toyota with a jammed accelerator as the car and its occupants, convenient videographer and all, hurtled toward an uncertain fate... unlikely in my estimation.
I always assume that the junk I see on TV is either staged or a representative example.
- goatforce5 17y agoA very respectable news program once made a story about my mum who was meeting one of her journalists for the first time, just after he'd been released from jail. It took them over 30 minutes and at least 12 shots to film their first meeting, where he walked up some stairs and they shook hands. The forgot to mention they'd actually met for the first time the night before and stayed at our house.
- lotharbot 17y agoA very respectable news anchor in the US aired some memos supposedly written by a presidential candidate's superior officer in the 1970s. Upon investigation, it was discovered the memos were written in Microsoft Word using the default settings, and probably run through a fax machine or copier a few times to make them look "old". They were most definitely not typed on a 1970s era typewriter. Once this was pointed out, it took the aforementioned newsman a week before he was forced to conclude the memos were inauthentic. The exact statement used was "fake but accurate". The "fake but accurate" standard for journalism is problematic. Either show us the real thing, or describe to us the real thing and explain why you can't show it. Trying to slide by with carefully staged shots ends up looking really bad, and costs the organizations a ton of credibility.
- ars 17y agoI though all they had to do was write "recreation" or "dramatization" in a little note at the bottom of the picture.