This article sure raised fireworks for me.
"The footage of the landmarks was shot several weeks ago... digitally altered.... superimposing the fireworks over the images."
Not only does this mean you can not believe a thing the AmeriKan media tells you; now you can not even believe what you see.
"Boston gets a nonreality show; CBS broadcasts impossible views of 4th fireworks" by James H. Burnett III, Globe Staff / July 8, 2011
Those who watched Boston’s revered Fourth of July celebration Monday night on CBS were treated to spectacular views of fireworks exploding behind the State House, Quincy Market, and home plate at Fenway Park, among other places - great views, until you consider that they were physically impossible.
Like those WTC towers collapsing into their own footprints due to jet fuel fire on 9/11.
Which really raises a troubling question I have been avoiding: were those planes we saw crash into those towers real?
Many of the initial reports cite explosions without referring to planes. Even the videos themselves are strangely contradictory. Some appear to show the second jet diving in at an angle while others show more of a flat line before contact. But seeing is believing, right?
As viewers began to point out yesterday, it would not have been geographically possible to see the fireworks above and behind the landmarks in question, since the display was launched from a barge in the Charles River and in directions away from those places.
“According to CBS, you can see the fireworks from the right side of Quincy Market, even though Beacon Hill is in the way,’’ wrote “Kaz,’’ whose real name is Karl Clodfelter, a commenter on the Boston blog UniversalHub.com. “Also, they come up behind the State House when you’re standing across the road . . . which means the barge must have been parked on the Zakim this year,’’ wrote Clodfelter, a research scientist from Brighton.
David Mugar, the Boston-area businessman and philanthropist who has executive produced the show for nine years, confirmed yesterday that the footage was altered. He said this was the first year such alterations were made.
Why should we believe this is the first time after all the lying all these years?
Can you REALLY BELIEVE ANYTHING on TV?
Even now they insist on flogging the bin Laden was killed by US troops this past May when the whole world knows he had been dead for 10 years.
Could it ALL be STAGED and SCRIPTED AGENDA-PUSHING GARBAGE?
Mugar said the added images were above board because the show was entertainment and not news....
Like that line hasn't been blurred.
The technical process is called matting.
Something that has been around for decades. The modern-day equivalent is the photo-shop.
Entertainment or not, some viewers were not amused to learn that the footage was altered.
T.J. Jeffers, decked out in a Celtics T-shirt and Red Sox cap, stood outside the JFK/UMass T stop yesterday and, with a toothy grin, declared his love for Boston and the Independence Day celebrations.
“It’s one of the biggest times of year here,’’ an animated Jeffers said. “Man, it’s huge. The fireworks, the crowds. It takes you back to your childhood. . . . But I’m shocked they changed stuff on TV, because they didn’t need to. The fireworks don’t need dressing up. They’re fireworks.’’
I'm SHOCKED that SEEING is NOT BELIEVING on that POS BOX!
At a Shaw’s grocery store in Dorchester, Penny Thompson, who described herself as “a lifer, born and raised in the Boston area,’’ expressed disappointment, but not over the quality of the fireworks display.
“I thought it looked fine,’’ Thompson said. “I just don’t like knowing it wasn’t real. I mean I know the fireworks were real, but I’m saying not real like they changed stuff. That’s not cool.’’
Eric Deggans, a Florida-based media critic and regular panelist on CNN’s media critique show “Reliable Sources,’’ said the altered video presents a potential credibility problem for CBS: “I think - especially in today’s media environment - the most important commandment for media is to not mislead the viewer. . . . If you’re a viewer who doesn’t know Boston, you’re getting a picture of the layout of the city that doesn’t exist.’’
Then the AmeriKan media is a MISERABLE FAILURE!
As for CBS' credibility, it NO LONGER HAS ANY!
This went out to the WHOLE NATION!
The WHOLE NATION was LIED TO!
David A. Perry, a Massachusetts native who watches the televised fireworks each year from his home in Delaware, Ohio, and who first alerted the Globe to the altered video, had a similar, if more tempered, reaction.
“I was already just dismayed with the coverage,’’ said Perry, a 45-year-old computer programmer who left New England five years ago to relocate to his new wife’s hometown. “They didn’t pan out enough to show what was probably a crowd of half a million. They made it seem like just 2,000 people were there. But then I started seeing some of the angles. And let me tell you, I’ve been to plenty of Sox games. So I knew the angles and the backgrounds weren’t right.
“The shame is I’ve always thought the fireworks were among the best in the country. So there was no need to add anything. The fireworks by themselves would have been good enough. Why?’’
Asked about Mugar’s argument that the show was entertainment so the usual rules did not apply, Clodfelter, the commenter from Brighton, said if that’s the case “why not superimpose Neil Armstrong on the moon?’’
Maybe they did.
See: Fly Me To the Moon
Really gave the program a push, huh? Same way the new Pearl Harbor gave the war on terror a shove.
Think about the madness going on with the airports these days -- all grown out of that 9/11 lie.
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Related: Sadness" prevalent as America's Space Shuttle era comes to an end
The empire only spends its money on mass-murdering wars and occupations now.
Globe Editorial Altered images of fireworks don’t belong on live TV
And lies don't belong in newspapers, but.... (sigh)
