Society The Donald J. Trump Show - 4 more years editions
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"Matt was never my friend"...
Fake news gonna fake news smh
Wait this guy (Paul Watson) is admitting he altered the video and removed frames but is attempting to claim he didnt 'doctor' it?
One can argue about the semantics of specific words but that doesn't change the fact the video was not presented in its original version. Approximately half the frames were removed from the video.
All this makes one question why the White House with all its access to media would choose to run a video which has be altered from its original form (c-span has multiple videos that are clear, non slowed down, no frames removed and good angles).
Lets take a look at who is posting this video above... Paul Watson who has a sorted history of publishing bigoted articles, questionable claims, pushing conspiracy theories and playing identity politics.
Some of the fake news Watson has been called out for pushing in the past includes:
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Report: CNN/Buzzfeed to Release Damaging New Trump Tape 48 Hours Before Inauguration
'The Apprentice' out-takes allegedly show president-elect using the n-word
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com - January 16, 2017 Comments
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Here is an original version, unedited, not slowed down and no frames removed:
View: https://youtu.be/mp4HPzM4PLM
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It’s ok. They’ll get by.
Altered the video in that he zoomed in on the point of interest. He didn't remove frames, that's just stupid.
Even super liberal Buzzfeed said the doctoring thing is bullshit.
By the definition used by the media, EVERY video is a "doctored" from the original raw tape, simply by the means of ingesting it into an editing software and exporting it with a chosen file format and compression. It's just asinine.
The whole debate is silly anyway - he should be booted for refusing to hand over the mic and refusing to let the next journalist speak. Acosta is a whiney, entitled hack who thinks it's the Jim Acosta show whenever he's in the same room with the president.
That happened because Trump didn't answer the question and cut off reporters he didn't like.
I'm sure he's annoyed and doesn't want to answer Acosta because he knows CNN will try to convey whatever he says in a negative way but that's the nature of reporter + White House.
the latest from president smoothbrain
View: https://twitter.com/heynottheface/status/1061305645759004673
View: https://twitter.com/heynottheface/status/1061305645759004673
Full disclosure... All of those countries are the same to Americans. I'll let this one slide.
He said himself frames were altered to make it into a gif form.
Why reduce the quality of the video and alter frames.... ah yes, the make the karate chop appear.
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How an InfoWars Video Became a White House Tweet
View: https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1060535993525264384
Is the Video Accurate?
The video was altered in a way that is misleading and dramatizes events. It is extremely low quality, likely because it’s a combination of edits and reuploads. The raw video used to create the GIF was taken from a C-Span feed with an odd camera angle, which serves to make the whole affair seem more dramatic.
High-quality video from any of the other cameras present at the press briefing shows that, while there was contact between Acosta and the intern, it was not a strike or “karate chop” as some claim.
However, the main issue with the White House video is its editing. While the video itself is 15 seconds long, the only footage in the clip is the three-second GIF shared by ForAmerica and The Daily Wire. The GIF is shown in its entirety at the beginning of the video posted by Sanders; it’s the wide shot that includes the C-Span logo. This GIF is shown six times over the course of the 15-second video, with a variety of edits and zooms that serve to make the relatively inconsequential moment seem more dramatic.
“At issue here is how video speed and frame rate affects the human ability to perceive force," said Britt Paris, a researcher with Data & Society studying audio-visual manipulation. "Context matters, and time and duration is an oft-overlooked part of context that helps us interpret the content of a video."
Let’s break this down.
0:00-0:03
The first part of the video is the three-second GIF posted by various groups on Twitter. This is a wide shot that shows the scene in its entirety, including Trump and the other attendees at the press briefing.
0:04-0:07
This clip is the same three-second GIF as before, just zoomed in. It’s a mid-shot focused on Acosta and the White House intern attempting to wrestle away the mic. Notice the position of the hands: It begins at the same moment as the first clip.
0:07-0:09
This is where things start to get somewhat murky. From 0:07 onward the video transitions into a series of tight close-up shots focused on Acosta’s arm. These clips are shorter than the first two, somewhere between 1½ and two seconds, rather than three. It’s difficult to say whether this time difference is due to cut footage, the use of slow-mo or accelerating effect, or something else.
In a screenshot Watson tweeted of the editing track he used to make the video, there are two strange markings at the 0:08–0:09 and 0:10–0:11 marks that suggest a still frame or something else could have been added.
View: https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1060535993525264384
Watson’s screenshot indicates that the added footage or frame was introduced just before the 0:09 mark, the moment Acosta’s hand touched the White House intern’s arm.
Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth College who specializes in digital forensics and image analysis, says that while he’s not sure how to interpret the screenshot shared by Watson, there were several still frames in the video. “This could have been done intentionally, but could also be the result of transcoding that changes the frame rate,” Farid wrote.
Paris, the Data & Society researcher, says that she's not familiar with the Sony Vegas Pro editor panel that Watson highlighted, but the additions seem suspect to her. "It could be a clip that was copied from the original, the speed changed, then added back into the 'reel.' Or it could be something else," she said.
Aymann Ismail, a video producer and editor at Slate, posted a side-by-side comparison of the shot and a clip from NBC News on Twitter. In a tweet, Ismail claimed that the comparison shows that the intern's reach for the mic was slowed down while Acosta's motion was sped up.
View: https://twitter.com/aymanndotcom/status/1060410328817827840
View: https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1060535993525264384
What was the question?
You can't force anyone to answer a question to your 100% satisfaction. If Acosta didn't like Trump's answer, that's tough luck.
Acosta is allowed to challenge the President on his use of the term invasion when describing the caravan. This issue is one which largely divides the public. Some would agree it is an invasion while some would not. Acosta's network caters to many who do not believe it's an invasion and therefore he was disputing the President's use of the definition and that is his job.
I guess what CNN and alike networks are trying to do is showing how unstable and wreckless the President is because he reacts in a way that isn't or hasn't been common from a national leader in a very long time.
His use of the term invasion when describing the caravan of migrants. That was the exchange which resulted in the intern trying to remove the mic from Acosta.
Then he told another journalist that her question was racist and to sit down when she asked if his proclamation of being a Nationalist would be misconstrued and used by certain individuals which may associate the Republican Party as a racist party.
He was asked some very hostile questions but he also dealt with the reporters in a hostile manner.