PBS fakes it.

I heard something on the radio over the weekend where they are talking about how they are trying to come up with quite fireworks for resort type areas that do fireworks shows all the time.

Personally, I think a big part of the spectacle is the sound. Neat concept though.
 
The weather here totally sucked for fireworks yesterday. Our local fireworks got postponed because of it, so I had that PBS broadcast on and thought it looked pretty suspicious. In most of the shots, the fireworks went into the low clouds and disappeared, while other angles were crystal clear. I commented at the time that I thought they must be mixing footage, but I'm a little surprised PBS would do that. At least they admitted it instead of trying to keep it quiet.
 
People expected fireworks, weather wasn't cooperating, so PBS helped the situation and gave people what they expected. Woopidy doo. I'm missing why this is so flabbergasting.
 
shoeless said:
The weather here totally sucked for fireworks yesterday. Our local fireworks got postponed because of it, so I had that PBS broadcast on and thought it looked pretty suspicious. In most of the shots, the fireworks went into the low clouds and disappeared, while other angles were crystal clear. I commented at the time that I thought they must be mixing footage, but I'm a little surprised PBS would do that. At least they admitted it instead of trying to keep it quiet.
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Last weekend end somebody showed me a footage of a fireworks show on their phone. I commented that it looks like a neat digital rendition. It was too precise. Turns out it was just that, but it kind of hurt her feelings, because she thought it was real. Most people probably wouldn't notice.
 
Good thing that would never happen in a REAL news station's broadcast. And now, for a little entertainment, let's go back to 2011 and Fox News' coverage of union unrest in Madison, Wisconsin -- replete with the iconic palm trees growing outside the state capitol:

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shoeless said:
. At least they admitted it instead of trying to keep it quiet.
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IIRC, they didn't say anything about it until they started getting called out on it on social media.

i don't have any problem with it, but i would suggest they run the thingy at the bottom of the screen every so often, noting that it's a replay of previous displays due to the weather, kinda like MLB or Golf when they're delayed.

the thing that gets 'iffy' is would they manipulate real events for an agenda in their news coverage??
i think that's where people are getting a little upset. being lead to believe one thing, when something else is going on.
 
Anyone who was upset about this, knows nothing about how TV works, and lacks any perspective on how media influences our lives in general.
 
If you’re watching on TV you should watch the fireworks in NYC. It’s a better show in every way possible.
 
Yeah. Given the pap that is spoonfed to a population -- increasingly unable to think critically -- as news, getting angry at this definitely falls into the "old man yells at cloud" category of peeves...
 
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