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(46,327 posts) Mon Dec 2, 2013, 08:07 PM Dec 2013

Huckabee and Faux "news" use mirror to inflate size of audience.

I'm not surprised...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/02/heres-the-mirror-fox-uses-to-make-mike-huckabee/197097

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Huckabee and Faux "news" use mirror to inflate size of audience. (Original Post) Archae Dec 2013 OP

When I was a kid GladRagDahl Dec 2013 #1

Common trick. They likely also run the audience sound through a machine and play MADem Dec 2013 #2

GladRagDahl

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1. When I was a kid

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 08:17 PM

Dec 2013

I was on a local tv show a couple of times...back in the days when morning shows truly were filmed in the local affiliates. They used a mirror too. The studio was really, really tiny but it didn't look that way on tv.

MADem

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2. Common trick. They likely also run the audience sound through a machine and play

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 10:43 PM

Dec 2013

it back on a second or two delay. That way it sounds like there's double the audience, too.

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