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Media Distortion Example
For those of you who saw Dean's Iowa concession speech on TV or heard it on the radio, you were likely given a picture of a crazy man, screaming his head off. In an excellent illustration of just how easily the media's portrayal of an event like this can vary from the reality of the situation, an amateur camcorder movie has been posted on the web. This 2 minute excerpt shows Dean from the perspective of the crowd, and it is quite a different experience than what I describe above. The difference stems from two things: the audio on the camcorder footage encompasses both crowd noise and Dean; and the camera also shows both groups. The major media outlets instead have been showing footage of Dean up close, with audio drawn primarily from his microphone. Watch the clip and make your own conclusions.
Posted on January 25, 2004 02:04 AM
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