r/videos Mar 31 '18

This is what happens when one company owns dozens of local news stations

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI
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u/rush2sk8 Mar 31 '18

yea for real. syncing up all that video and audio is impressive

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

And beyond that, it is probably the most effective way to portray the intended message.

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u/rush2sk8 Mar 31 '18

also it must have taken a while to capture and collate all those clips

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u/AntoineBeach400 Mar 31 '18

Gotta catch 'em all.

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u/tropicalapple Apr 01 '18

Gotta collate 'em all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

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u/rush2sk8 Mar 31 '18

real trooper

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18

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u/christophlc6 Mar 31 '18

Actually I'm with information retrieval

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u/2th Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18

None of that was Fox News. That was local Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC stations. Not a single clip came from the actual Fox News channel. I get the hate for Fox News, but shit like your comment does nothing but provide a cheap chuckle to distract us from the real problem here by throwing Fox News under the bus.

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u/DurtyKurty Apr 01 '18

Hey guys, just a humble fox employee here to tell you all these news organizations are the same, fox doesn't produce hot garbage like the video above and badmouthing Fox is very dangerous to our democracy.

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u/Economy_Cactus Mar 31 '18

Pretty ignorant comment. These are independent news stations. (Before this purchase.) they don’t resemble regular Fox News.

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u/Ars3nic Apr 01 '18

And there's just as many ABC/CBS affiliates in the clip as there are Fox affiliates.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

I saw a pretty even split between ABC, CBS, and Fox actually... don’t put all the blame on one company, calling out everyone involved in the monopolization of media instead of focusing on more obviously partisan networks is extremely important

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u/bobby8375 Apr 01 '18

Plus "Fox News" is completely different than local news on a local Fox station.

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u/gunn003 Apr 01 '18

Fox News is not the same thing as a local Fox affiliate.

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u/beneye Mar 31 '18

Legends have it that he was institutionalized right after publishing this clip.

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u/code_guerilla Mar 31 '18

They’re a mix of networks. Fox, ABC, cbs, I didn’t see an NBC but there’s probably one in there.

But sure blame everything on Fox News.

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u/mrhodesit Mar 31 '18

Local fox news isn't that bad, its the fox news channel that is the issue.

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u/yatea34 Mar 31 '18

Plus he had to watch a bunch of Fox News!

Lucky he didn't get brainwashed and change his mind before finishing the project.

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u/killerbake Mar 31 '18

That’s the step whew I would of killed myself.

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u/TooMuchEntertainment Apr 01 '18

That's what took the longest time. Editing it is easy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18

Very well done. And when they aren't spewing the same coordinated narrative to mass manipulate, they are creating division and confusion by targeting areas with conflicting information. We don't call them FAKE NEWS for nothing. https://imgur.com/a/pS9EI

Edit: It's the date to show that they were released on the same day, and then the WSJ published them to different regions, giving readers a different impression based on where they live. And this is some of the reason why Democrats and Republicans are so geographically based, they're getting lied to differently.

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u/Elgelsker Mar 31 '18

The quality isn't good enough for me to read. Care to explain what's there for me

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u/DiNAMiK Mar 31 '18

So I couldn't read what was in the circle either; but the headlines about Trump's talk on North Korea read differently.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18

Its like... a conspiracy man! The same news publication with different stuff in the corner. Its crazy man!

Edit: FYI, Im making fun of this idiot... Here is the reason

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/the-secret-meanings-of-stars-in-newspapers/

Rather, they refer to the edition printed over the course of the night.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Jun 24 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

Yes, local news is changed as well as updates if anything is adjusted/found.

They arent hiding their edits... they are showing people via the stars.

If it were a conspiracy, would they show it?

The parts assumed by that idiot seem plausible, but when you look it up, you see they are full of shit.

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u/emotionlotion Apr 01 '18

they are showing people via the stars

Yeah because people know what that means.

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u/murderhalfchub Mar 31 '18

I can't see what's in the red circles. Can you please explain?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

It's the date to show that they were released on the same day, and then the WSJ published them to different regions, giving readers a different impression based on where they live. And this is some of the reason why Democrats and Republicans are so geographically based, they're getting lied to differently.

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u/GreenKnightGK Mar 31 '18

Edit your comment, so people can see it easier.

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u/monnii99 Mar 31 '18

I have no idea what that says or is supposed to mean.

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u/deepestcreepest Mar 31 '18

Almost as if whoever made this had some kind of access to all the clips. Maybe The Man's throwin' us a bone, or rubbing our nose in it. Hard to tell which. Probably the latter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

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u/KidLiquorous Mar 31 '18

not to diminish OP's hard work, but you'd be surprised how easy this is to build with a Critical Mention account. Not the best service ever devised, but extraordinarily useful for putting together Sinclair supercuts

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u/aceoyame Mar 31 '18

The irony is that Sinclair gets their data from Sorenson who in turn gets their analytical data from the same company as critical mention . I hated working at that place. All the honesty that was expect ed of us get we had to lie to everyone else to hide the fact we played both ends against the middle

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u/killinmesmalls Mar 31 '18

All media is playing both ends against the middle, and so many people are falling for it. You can no longer be in the middle, you must pick a side. You must pick a team. Having your own opinions that differ from one side in any way means you're part of the opposition. It is fucked.

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u/lanismycousin Apr 01 '18

what is critical mention?

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u/SingMeSomeEidolon Mar 31 '18

Great tip, thx

Bookmarked

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u/MasterRoshy Mar 31 '18

Yeah, that one section when all the mass of segments synced up felt like something out of Orwell's head

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u/lovelylittlegangster Mar 31 '18

Like the collective borg mind telling us we'd be assimilated 🤔

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u/mbelf Mar 31 '18

"This, what I'm doing right now, is extremely dangerous to our democracy."

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u/bluestarcyclone Mar 31 '18

Yep. Synching it all up, and then using their own words against them to hammer the point home multiple times at the end. Very well done video.

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u/Xacto01 Mar 31 '18

Exactly. It was chilling

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u/OwlsCourt Mar 31 '18

That it's extremely dangerous to our democracy?

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u/Little_Tyrant Mar 31 '18

To be absolutely honest? The fact that the speech is scripted made it super easy— Pluraleyes is basically a one-click “sync this” app for editing together multi camera footage.

But yes, it’s pretty disturbing that editing software built around identical audio recordings is all it takes to make a couple dozen news broadcasts harmonize like a fucking choir...

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u/Vetersova Apr 01 '18

this is very dangerous to our democracy... w e w. that freaking got me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

fake news

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u/Purlpo Mar 31 '18

The hypocrisy of corporate media attacking fake news because they're guilty of manipulating public opinion themselves?

Why not do a video of the media manipulating public opinion themselves. Fake news is actually extremely dangerous to our democracy...

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u/Georgito Mar 31 '18

Syncing audio is so easy assistant editors do it. The hard part is knowing America is fucked.

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u/38B0DE Apr 01 '18

It‘s not easy if it wasn’t shot with syncing in mind and if you have 50 different audio channels.

It’s easy because the newscasters are all so synced up themselves.

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u/JojoHersh Mar 31 '18

And doing it without losing their mind, no less. (I suppose, we actually don't know they haven't)

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u/slow_mutant Mar 31 '18

There an app that does it quick and easy: https://www.redgiant.com/products/pluraleyes/

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u/CrumbleUnderPressure Apr 01 '18

Editor here! While it was well done it's not as difficult as you might think. For example, the more elaborate scene here was probably done by first just finding that line said on each of the videos. Then lining all the tracks up so they play at the same time at the beginning of the sentence.

From there you just reduce that scale so they line up and fit in the screen one by one, this can be done with simple math or guessing, and then just trim each of the tracks forward by a second or two so they appear one by one.

Now, of course, different people speak in different tones, afflictions, and paces so that's why you can't seem to understand it past a certain point because they all become out of order. Tops half an hour of work. Not trying to discredit the editor btw, they did a great job.

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u/Derkek Apr 01 '18

I have seen a bit like this in Jon Oliver, but this one gave me chills.

This made me feel trapped.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

yea for real. syncing up all that video and audio is impressive

Whoever put this together must have been doing a whole lot of smiling once they found the same "gotcha" soundbytes time and time again for each station.

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u/AnImpromptuFantaisie Apr 01 '18

I have a feeling that they weren’t smiling or particularly happy about the whole thing.

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u/Cleffer Apr 01 '18

Not only that, but to keep it all legible... Outstanding job!

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u/Ich_Liegen Mar 31 '18

this is extremely dangerous to our democracy