Visual Art Not Forgery, Part 700, The End
posted by on August 15 at 10:56 AM
For the love of god, I’ve been meaning to post about this for a couple of days. Sorry! This week’s non-Slog work kept me from being diligent about reading comments, and it turns out that, as some people pointed out, the fireworks for the opening ceremonies did< happen, but they were substituted on the broadcast for ones not obscured by the foggy Chinese air. Fine. That’s just dubbing (and not dubbing that humiliates a little girl). No big deal.
What is weird, though, is that I could have sworn that MSNBC’s original story claimed just what I said when I linked to it: that the fireworks were completely nonexistent. (Anybody?) Now, the story looks quite different from what I remember it as. Is this just a case of online journalism being infinitely mutable? Wouldn’t it be nice if corrections were handled as corrections, or as a new story? At least that way, I’d feel less crazy.
I guess when digital media gets involved, something somewhere gets erased or covered over.
Nope, just more bad reporting...
i thought that i was going crazy. msnbc changes their articles a lot. they suck.
Perhaps something was lost in translation.
I watched the opening ceremonies and the commentator distinctly stated that the footprints were "digitally generated". Which I understood to mean that the images were virtual as opposed to actual. I did not hear anyone say anything about them being simply enhanced rather than wholly generated so the commentary itself flawed or erroneous.
Inkweary: I'm sorry to continue this crazy re-representation of things ad infinitum, but were you watching NBC? If you were, then you are wrong. We covered this in the iteration of comments on the first post. Matt Lauer referred to their filmic quality because Zhang Yimou is a director and designed the opening ceremonies. NBC did not know that what they were broadcasting was digitally enhanced -- that's why their online news division, MSNBC, reported the digital enhancement as breaking news two days later. Make sense?
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