Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Did Fox News erase applause from Obama's West Point Speech?

Media Matters asks: Did Fox News edit video of President Obama’s commencement speech at West Point to remove audience applause? Portly filmmaker Michael Moore thinks so:

Here's the WH original so that you can decide for yourself:

2 comments:

Self-made Savant said...

Is there any question?

The longer version has applause and a shot of the cadets clapping. after 10:20

The Fox video has no applause and the image seems to skip. During that skip we miss the shot of the clapping cadets. The Fox video seems to lose all ambient sound for those few seconds. Either because of a glitch or by an edit on purpose something is missing there.

The Improver said...

I think the better question is do YOU think Fox erased the applause.

And if they did, how would that make you feel?

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