On the one hand, kudos for owning what you perceive to be a mistake like this. This is an example for us all...
But on the other hand... who cares?
The video looks manipulated. Almost everyone agrees.
Whether it is manipulated or an illusion, and whether it was a green screen or a normal correction process done before air, it looks manipulated.
Normies should be given the cue to be aware of these things.
And if it was manipulated, but just as some normal, non-nefarious attempt to clean up the video before distribution and some editor left in a layer unintentionally... even better!
Why? Because most people don't realize news clips go through this kind of editing process before distribution. Be honest, how many people here did prior to recently?
I always figured, sure, you grab the raw video, maybe do some color correction and re-encoding, and then chop around some pieces. But once you start getting into motion-detection cut outs and layering and cleaning up things like microphones, that reaches a level of manipulation I assumed reserved for movies and TV shows, not news clips.
So, even if it's normal and accidental, give the normies an excuse to watch this. To analyze it. To hear just how much these news clips are edited "as a matter of course" for "innocent" things like microphones.
Once people start realizing that these videos are chopped up, layers cropped out, cleaned up and re-composited, even for something like these microphones, then it's just one more opportunity for them to consider these possibilities with every video they see thereafter.
In other words, if ABC or CBS does this regularly on every video anyway, it's no longer a stretch for them to be doing it in ways that paint the picture they want to paint instead of reality.
On the one hand, kudos for owning what you perceive to be a mistake like this. This is an example for us all...
But on the other hand... who cares?
The video looks manipulated. Almost everyone agrees.
Whether it is manipulated or an illusion, and whether it was a green screen or a normal correction process done before air, it looks manipulated.
Normies should be given the cue to be aware of these things.
And if it was manipulated, but just as some normal, non-nefarious attempt to clean up the video before distribution and some editor left in a layer unintentionally... even better!
Why? Because most people don't realize news clips go through this kind of editing process before distribution. Be honest, how many people here did prior to recently?
I always figured, sure, you grab the raw video, maybe do some color correction and re-encoding, and then chop around some pieces. But once you start getting into motion-detection cut outs and layering and cleaning up things like microphones, that reaches a level of manipulation I assumed reserved for movies and TV shows, not news clips.
So, even if it's normal and accidental, give the normies an excuse to watch this. To analyze it. To hear just how much these news clips are edited "as a matter of course" for "innocent" things like microphones.
Once people start realizing that these videos are chopped up, layers cropped out, cleaned up and re-composited, even for something like these microphones, then it's just one more opportunity for them to consider these possibilities with every video they see thereafter.
In other words, if ABC or CBS does this regularly on every video anyway, it's no longer a stretch for them to be doing it in ways that paint the picture they want to paint instead of reality.