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FOX is TV Fakery
CNN is TV Fakery
Disney/ABC is TV Fakery
Well you get the idea on TV, but, what else?
The New York Times is TV Fakery
The Washington Post more...is TV Fakery
TV fakery is the adjustment of any presented visual/audio/historical fact in order to make the event covered by the image, sound or record appear to say something different than the event actually did.
There are well known historical and current cases of this happening. A famous recent one was the collection of visual images showing deliriously happy Iraqi pulling down the statue of Sadam Hussein. The crowd was small, many weren’t Iraqi and they were paid.
Unnoticed by most readers of newspapers and watchers of televised news is smoke/fire drawing. Real fires have little smoke and fire that shows up well in a photograph. The skill of drawing attractive smoke and fire has been with us a long time. While it seems benign, it is altering the appearance of the event and is TV fakery. Recently, the volcano in Hawaii issued some sulfur dioxide gas, a gas that is in fact, colorless
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/mhmi/mmg116.pdf
Newspapers carried images of large water vapor smoke clouds. They were drawings.
There are many ways of making events state something different.
Staging.
Like the statue of Saddam, we have been regularly confronted with staged rescues. A reporter with a decent expense account hires a couple of locals to get their clothes torn, wear some bandages and bloody looking stuff. While we, again, tend not to pay attention, the locale of the shot is often a dead giveaway. An image/sound or record is also staged when it is prerecorded and presented later as live, even without alteration.
Altering.
The fire and smoke pictures started as real images.
Staging/Altering.
A separate category because, although the image started as a real image/sound record, it was taken at a different time. The original staging had not anticipated some key element of the event.
Imagining.
The image/sound/record is totally drawn/produced/faked. Actors for images. Actors for sound. Substituted records. Actual animation.
There are mixtures and other methods, but, they all have one common purpose. The central intent in every case is to alter the target victim’s perception of what actually happened. Typically the motive is to relieve the victim of something valuable.
Caveat emptor. Don’t buy it!
Copyright May 31, 2008 by Joe Craine, New York City, NY, USA
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