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While oversimplified, I like the diagram. I remember that my local media staged events in front of good cameras to make their reporting look better. And they a

While oversimplified, I like the diagram. I remember that my local media staged events in front of good cameras to make their reporting look better. And they also made it look more dramatic. Inserted some small narrative. This staging often becomes a part of the job, instead of fair reporting. Now with twitter and such, journalists seem more focussed on the pictures and political black/white narratives. And do forget about the underlying grey reality. So almost all news has become fake.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> I remember that my local media staged events in front of good cameras to make their reporting look better. And they also made it look more dramatic. Inserted some small narrative. One nice side effect of ubiquitous cameras is that, every now and then, some news service gets caught staging shots. I'm reminded of a time in Poland when a massive march was reported, coupled with a photo seemingly showing lots of people... only for that photo to be revealed as a very clever play with camera angle - other photos from that same time, posted on-line by people living on the route of said march, shown that the couple dozen people on the original shoot were the entirety of the event. Situations like this, and every local news station going out of its way to lie with charts when reporting on elections, made me no longer care about following local political events. I'm actually surprised that people can witness being directly lied to, and then still assume that everything else in the same article must be the truth.
- ishjoh 7y ago
  One of my favourite examples of this is from "the today show" on NBC where they're discussing a flood and a reporter in a canoe is describing the events when two public citizens walk through the shot and the water seems to be less than 1/2 a foot deep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    I remember that one! I also once saw somewhere a lighter version of this - a reporter is bracing against a "strong wind", seemingly straining, trying to not get "blown away", and a moment later the camera captures some pedestrians walking perfectly normally. Anyway, the top comment on that YouTube video nails it: "The lump in your stomach really starts to feel big when you realize they do the exact same type of thing when reporting terror attacks, wars, political scandals, you name it."

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> I remember that my local media staged events in front of good cameras to make their reporting look better. And they also made it look more dramatic. Inserted some small narrative. One nice side effect of ubiquitous cameras is that, every now and then, some news service gets caught staging shots. I'm reminded of a time in Poland when a massive march was reported, coupled with a photo seemingly showing lots of people... only for that photo to be revealed as a very clever play with camera angle - other photos from that same time, posted on-line by people living on the route of said march, shown that the couple dozen people on the original shoot were the entirety of the event. Situations like this, and every local news station going out of its way to lie with charts when reporting on elections, made me no longer care about following local political events. I'm actually surprised that people can witness being directly lied to, and then still assume that everything else in the same article must be the truth.

ishjoh 7y ago
One of my favourite examples of this is from "the today show" on NBC where they're discussing a flood and a reporter in a canoe is describing the events when two public citizens walk through the shot and the water seems to be less than 1/2 a foot deep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  I remember that one! I also once saw somewhere a lighter version of this - a reporter is bracing against a "strong wind", seemingly straining, trying to not get "blown away", and a moment later the camera captures some pedestrians walking perfectly normally. Anyway, the top comment on that YouTube video nails it: "The lump in your stomach really starts to feel big when you realize they do the exact same type of thing when reporting terror attacks, wars, political scandals, you name it."