| | Many of you probably remember the 29 footprint fireworks during the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. Apparently on Slashdot, there's this big hoopla with half of the audience talking about media conspiracies by Dick Cheney and corporate America while the other half pointing out how the NBC announcers clearly pointed out that they were rendered CGI, even giving the name of the animator who put the sequence together. I was perplexed as to why this story was such a firestorm overseas while in the US, it's a side column story or a mocking one talking about crazies with tinfoil hats.
Then, while reading over the Slashdot hysteria, I stumbled across a comment about how the ceremony video came across a single international feed and had an epiphany: did the foreign broadcasters fail to point this out to their viewing public? This would explain why so many foreigners were pissed about this story and casting stones while most of us in the United States scratch our heads wondering what all the fuss is for (except for the the small handful of angry Americans who weren't paying attention to the commentary and would later write of conspiracies and the evil American media machine in their newspapers and blogs).
Just a thought.
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| | Posted 8/12/2008 8:57 PM - 45 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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