Is this just the beginning of false broadcasting?

[rpannier]

This is an editorial from a Korean News Organization. If you're not interested all I ask is that you read the 2ns paragraph. It's laughable and sad at the same time...

KBS is being accused of deliberately fabricating and distorting its live video and audio broadcast of the annual New Year’s bell-ringing event at Bosingak. Indeed, the scene at Bosingak and what you saw on KBS was more than a little different. Tens of thousands of citizens filled the streets at the Jonggak intersection in downtown Seoul and chanted “Out with Lee Myung-bak,” but that was eliminated from the sound relay, and signs people held saying things like “Adieu 2008, Out 2MB” and “Withdraw Proposed Changes to Media Laws” were never seen on the television screen. The interviews of passers-by you usually see watching coverage of such an event were omitted, and on television you did not see the moment when a yellow balloon with the words “Bring back our teachers!” was released into the sky the moment they started ringing the bell. People in the crowd were not clapping, but somehow you heard it on the KBS broadcast, and you saw things that were oddly irrelevant instead of seeing real people in the streets.

KBS claims the protesting citizens and their slogans were not part of the broadcast because they didn’t fit with the event. Adding the “applause” sound effect was “a matter of broadcasting technique.”

link:
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/331083.html

[JohnyCanuck]

1. George Orwell saw it comming 60 years ago. n/t

[nebenaube]

2. nah...

CSpan and Fox have been doing it for years.