WTF, CNN?

[et in Arcadia ego]

Not that I'm very surprised, but I just found this to be totally surreal..

I'm looking on CNN every once in a while now keeping track on how long we have till Armageddon starts, and I notice an advertisement for CNN's online videos. In the pic I see a burning *something* and the text says 'Explosives found' with something that looks like LA as the location. I have no recolection of this, of course, so I decide to use the macromedia function of zooming in on the pic.

I was very surprised at what I found.

When you zoom into pics that are screen resolution(72 dpi), you come closer to the bare pixels with each zoom, and eventually find yourself confronted with individual pixels.

This was not the case in this image; instead, I found myself looking at a clever vector illustration that very effectively passed for flames when zoomed out to the original size.

This appears to be FAKE MEDIA..

Look for yourself:




As if things aren't bad enough already with the REAL fake news, they have to make Orwellian Mega-Fake shit to entrap viewers.

This is absolutely disgusting. I encourage people to raise hell about it.

[bbinacan]

1. You need to chill out

welcome to DU

[pitohui]

2. i don't understand

you think there is no fire at san berdoo? i can guarantee you right now that the 2003 fires were real, v. damn real, i was there, how could they make this up, a LOT of people live around there

i would be v. surprised if they're inventing this

p.s. i don't get the photo you show when i click on the story, i don't know if it is edited for regional bias or what (i'm in louisiana)

[et in Arcadia ego]

4. ok, fine

Then why do they have to produce graphically edited pics instead of showing a real picture? Because that's a fake photo, and anyone that uses photoshop or any image editor can tell you that.

[pitohui]

7. i don't know, as i said, i'm not seeing the same picture

i know that sites can quote you different prices depending on ISP, does CNN give you different photos? it appears they must...

the photo i'm seeing shows a fireman w. a shovel

[et in Arcadia ego]

12. Actually

The one I'm seeing is animated and I missed the initial animation as it isn't set to loop. When the main CNN page refreshed itself, the animation starts and you can REALLY see how fake it is then..I'm sorry if I came across as loud and obnoxious, but this is really exploitational to me. If you experienced the event, I would be just as angry, if not more. If I saw some hokey, fake tornado or building collapse from Hurricane Andrew footage(which I experienced) I'd throw a friggin rod...

[pitohui]

19. well i'm not just getting that animation

i understand that you are and many others are but i'm getting a still photo

i can't comment on image enhancement but now i'm curious as to why different people or ISPs get different photos, there is prob. some logic behind it, but i'd just like to know what

i do have DSL, i could watch an animation perfectly well if they offered it...

[et in Arcadia ego]

20. Try this

Don't click on the picture, just open a new window, and go to CNN's home page. There's gonna be a short advertisement in the same section, and then the image will come up. The animation is in the initial advertisement, not in the page that opens from clicking on it.

[jsamuel]

3. I think I get what your saying

Instead of showing a real picture of the building burning, they had to "make it more appealing" and "draw" more fire on it...

:banghead:

[et in Arcadia ego]

6. exactly

This falls under my definition of 'whoring'..

[mntleo2]

15. That is What I Got From Your PostToo

...that the picture had to be enhanced in some way ~ and I would also ask WHY? Isn't the real pictures enough???

Cat In Seattle

[GreenTea]

5. Perhaps he's challenging CNN legitimacy to cover any story correctly?

Did you see that poll?

[Grown2Hate]

10. Oh, the poll where 100% of the 609 people polled said that the...

...Democratic ad using the flag draped coffins was "offensive", despite probably 1000 NO votes from DU alone? CNN, that bastion of balanced media? ::sarcasm:: Yeah, what will they have us believing next... that *shrub won the election? Jerks.

[blogslut]

8. Is it a FLASH ad?

If the ad is made in FLASH, doesn't FLASH automatically "vectorize" images?

EDIT: It could be a static image ala jpg. However, while the fire is indeed enhanced, the photo looks authentic. I don't know. Maybe they pumped it up. Kinda crappy to do but I'm not working as a graphics monkey for CNN. Maybe the person that didwas told to do it by a superior.

[tiptoe]

11. self-delete

[et in Arcadia ego]

14. the background

isn't vectorized. Yes, it's a flash image, animation, actually. You can see the three vector layers that produce the flame effect very easily while the background is heavily pixelated.

[blogslut]

16. well

once again...I dunno. Maybe the flame wasn't "dancy" enough to sell soap. It's dishonest, I agree. I can think of worse dishonesty.

[charlie]

22. Probably to keep the file size small

Instead of loading in separate image frames, which would be weighty, they put in a single static image and animated the "flames" in Flash.

[blogslut]

23. that

sounds logical.

I do so love FLASH. To me, it's THE format.

[tiptoe]

9. "CNN: The Most Busted Name in News" n/t

[tiptoe]

13. btw...K & R ! for CNN-awareness

[et in Arcadia ego]

17. And to clarify

I'm not accusing CNN of posting fake news, I'm calling them out for posting fake/enhanced MEDIA..

[longship]

18. Welcome to DU!

Kick back a while. Enjoy the nice scenery. Avoid the flamefests (or not, your choice).

:-)

[et in Arcadia ego]

21. cheers!

I've been here every day all day for at least the last year and a half.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

24. I have the solution... blow up the TV

I find lots less stress in my life without fake news alltogether.

[LiberalPartisan]

25. FOX showed money can be made

if news is marketed as entertainmnet. The leap to manufacturing the news (the content) wasn't that great. And of course the content has to be titillating - Nancy Grace's program is the perfect example of that - no real news or information but lots of hand wringing. I really appreciate Bowling for Columbine so much mmore a few years after first seeing it - Moore recognized early that all cable news programs continuously stoke the anxiety/fear factor to keep the viewers coming back for more. And it has been very effective as you can see at the office water cooler - lots of folks talking about the latest sensational sound-bite but not the issue.

[peacetalksforall]

26. Time-Warner. If you have a choice, don't choose TW. America

deserves straight arrow news. This is not the USSR.

Time-Warner, Murdoch, General Electric.

Pimp-Pimpess Land.

From Cheney to your home, including your kids room.

Spun and propagandized.

Where smirks, snears, ridicule and lies rule.

Real americana, corporate style.

[high density]

27. CNN is trying to outdo Fox in the "be scared" department

Evidently they think they can sell Pipeline to the security moms.