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i remember watching ww II battle documentaries, and they would be talking about a battle, say battle of the budge. and I would be like 'wait a second, that sto
by autokad 9y ago
i remember watching ww II battle documentaries, and they would be talking about a battle, say battle of the budge. and I would be like 'wait a second, that stock video footage was a corsair shooting a drone.
then it hit me that almost all of the video shown on these things is just for aesthetics / effect and not actual footage from the topic in question.
then it hit me, the news was actually doing the same thing! like they would be talking about an event concerning the nimitz and would show stock video footage of the JFK
- arkitaip 9y agoIt's the equivalent of tech's hacker baddie wearing sunglasses and a hoodie in a dark room with menacing green letters on the monitor.
- T-zex 9y agoWhy waste time on finding a perfect colour scheme, when you can simply put sunglasses on? Same with shampooing, put on a hoodie. That's a true hacker mentality.
- EliRivers 9y agoIt certainly explains why we so often see the same inappropriate language or pattern applied to every other problem.
- ryandrake 9y agoThink about how much inaccuracy and nonsense you can point out (because you are an expert) any time you see/read mainstream reporting on technology. Now extrapolate that to other areas of reporting. It's hard to know what to believe or who's credible.
- ojilles 9y agoGell-Mann Amnesia effect? http://www.omsj.org/blogs/gell-mann-effect http://www.omsj.org/blogs/gell-mann-effect
- emidln 9y agoIgnoring a discussion of good vs evil, I've spent a lot of time in server rooms staring at green letters on black backgrounds in a hoodie with sunglasses either on my head or clipped to my hoodie. Usually a plain black hoodie, because they are available for cheap.
- Floegipoky 9y agoSomebody tried to explain evil mode to the writers but they didn't quite get it.
- toxican 9y agoIf you watch enough WW2 documentaries, you start to see the same clips across multiple documentaries. A lot of them don't seem to put much care into matching the visuals with the audio, but the ones that do seem to do a really good job.
- throwitlong 9y agoAt least it's not footage of the Liaoning. In German newspapers often pictures of planes are plain wrong.
- kurthr 9y agoI believe it's referred to as infotainment. The History Channel isn't news any more than Fox News is news. That it then made it onto mainstream media, "because it's out there", is another indication of the problems with Ad revenue based media seeking clicks. http://video.foxnews.com/v/5497862627001/?#sp=show-clips http://video.foxnews.com/v/5497862627001/?#sp=show-clips http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amelia-earhart-survived-plane-crash-history-channel-1202487563/ http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amelia-earhart-survived-plan... It's telling that HISTORY is also being transparent: https://twitter.com/HISTORY/status/884781394861469696 https://twitter.com/HISTORY/status/884781394861469696 and that is also news. p.s. thanks criddell!
- EliRivers 9y agoNot entirely unrelated, there once was a time when the way to get news information was to be right there, at the source. Now, the way to get news information is to have it delivered electronically directly to the newsroom. It can then be passed back to a reporter standing outside the building from which that news originated, who has no idea what's going on, to be fed the lines to say over an earpiece and repeat them back into camera. This is what happens.
- qbrass 9y agoThat's been going on since the invention of the telegraph. PS: Those reporters aren't actually standing in front of the building, either.