What video?

Sorry had trouble posting,

All sides are guilty?? Uh....no.

I agree, not all sides are guilty. I actually don’t even consider this to be fake news. This is some new weather guy just trying to dramatize his experience to make a name for himself. I thought it was pretty hilarious actually.

Don’t you think him pretending that weather was shaking him all over is deceitful? What would have been wrong with saying “looks threatening”. It’s not a reality show, it’s supposed to be people reporting facts.

To qualify, not all news people lie ALL the time but having the movie star syndrome, most can’t resist speaking in superlatives, Just to get peoples attention.

yes, and it was hysterical to see calm passers by, were it not so pitiful

Many years ago, my DSS told me that while he served in Afghanistan, news people would come and go. They would encourage the locals to act like they were protesting and screaming and hollering so they would have a good news tape. The fake news goes back way before present state, unfortunately.

Their reply to this video was that he was on wet slippery grass and he was facing the wind. They were on pavement and not facing into the wind. He is a pretty lightweight little guy.

I think having any one continually standing out in a hurricane is pure stupidity. They will probably all come down with pneumonia. Including the idiots out there walking around in it.

All dummies.

Glenda’s video appears to be a kid having fun spoofing what we know about the weather guys pulling idiotic stunts. It’s amusing. I’m annoyed at journalists doing this in the name of “news”.

LOL!! You don't get pneumonia by being out in bad weather.......... :-)

I deleted it cause it showed friend's name from Facebook. Can't find another way to share :o(

I’m in rant mode, ha. Even the financial news are into this. They lead with a story w/a statement like “Apple stock highest Evah!” Then in the actual story they say it’s highest since last week. WTH??? Ever and since last week are two different things. Fake news with no value or substance

The weatherman is Mike Siedel ( Seidel?) of the weather channel. A Veteran “weatherman”.

I think the dramatization is good. Maybe it will encourage people not to roam around in hurricanes. I don't consider this "fake news" at all as there's no lying involved.

bossyvossy, can you provide a real example of your financial fake news? I'd be curious to see any outright lies.

In this case, I think "sensationalism" would be a more apt description than 'fake news'. The guy's movements are obviously not natural to bracing against a strong wind. It's also obvious by things blowing past behind him, and what he tosses into the air, which way the wind is blowing.

Unfortunately, it seems some weathermen think that theatrics are part of their job. We have a local weatherman who has been broadcasting here for over 30 years that I know of, and the older he gets, the more posturing he does. I can hardly stand to watch him anymore. Weather doesn't have to be sensationalized.

Yes, there is entirely too much fake news being cast around. Whatever happened to integrity and plain basic honesty!

"Just gimme the facts, ma'am, just the facts."

Rusty

TV "news" has been sensationalized for a long time. It's why I don't watch it. For me, the only serious news reporting is in the print media and PBS.

Female anchors some may find attractive in tight and revealing dresses (which by the way doesn't offend me at all) and "Ken doll" men are the stereotype. Some have reasonable journalistic creds, some don't. Why the practice has developed to send reporters to the scene of disasters, weather reporters standing knee deep in water or deflecting the spray from wave action, etc., I don't know. They all do it.

The term "fake news" was created by disreputable people hoping to deflect and discredit truthful stories. To me, anyone who uses the term is saying "believe my lies, not this truth".

The only fake news I know of is Fox, which wouldn't know an unbiased story from a propaganda piece as they specialize in the latter.

Chi, I will record something and post. But a common instance is the manipulation of statistics.

As to sensationalism or dramatization, that’s not a news reporters job. His job is to share unblemished facts.

One could start getting into the semantics of white vs outright lies, but I’d find it exhausting to draw that line every minute of the day

As to the comment about young journalist (he wasn't) trying to make a name for himself, he’d have no credibility with me b/c as his career progresses, the stakes would be higher and the exxagerations bigger. I guess the scandals involving the journalists Dan Rather & Brian Williams, deeply affected me into media mistrust.

I don't get what's fake about this. You can see his pants are blowing as well as the ground level plants.

"His job is to share unblemished facts."

It doesn't work that way. Stations have news directors and assignment managers, I don't know what the industry titles are. The "reporters" are told where to go, what commentary to develop, and how to act when delivering it. It's reviewed before it's delivered other than on the scene event reporting. I'm not saying that reporting is slanted but every station has a style. TV is the visual medium and so its pieces by design have elements that the print media can't do.

Chi, here’s a good article. Pls ignore the Hilkary or Dobald references in the hopes of keeping this non political. The fakery started way before

Can fake media impact the stock market?

I heard this clip discussed on an afternoon radio show yesterday. One host apparently knew of the weather reporter and commented he was known for doing this type of exaggerated reporting. She commented that to her it was obvious that the cameraman was also fed up with this guy's antics and thus did not change the angle of the camera to avoid filming the strolling fellows in the background, which a cameraman would normally do. What a jerk!

So Elmer, are you saying TV made me do it so not my sin???? Come on, you are not that naive.

I don't understand your most recent comment. As far as this dancing weather reporter is concerned, of course he's overacting the scene. The news isn't fake, the delivery is exaggerated. As for my comments about the production of news shows, I know people in the industry. Do you?

In another form, this is what every talk show host and every Fox on-screen individual does every moment of every broadcast. Not physically but with words and comments. CNN has a few drama kings and queens too but they tend to stick to the facts.

The news is true to the extent we know there is a hurricane in that part of world, the fakery comes from presenting himself in dire danger while people on the back are leisurely strolling. To me he wanted to create a nail biting scene where there was none. It’s not a lie that will send anybody to the burn chamber but I am ranting about people that skew the news or flat out lie to manipulate emotions and/or intellect, especially when their mission is to be our eyes when we’re not there.

PS: I don’t know people in the news industry. I didn’t think I needed to know them b4 trusting them to share tru info, not souped up, reality showish scenes.

I do watch when things like this are happening. I have always wished that they would just show regular shots and skip the idiots standing out in the rain.They have been doing this for years are are not likely to quit. I usually keep the sound muted so i can follow the track and when the actual weather report comes on, I bring the sound back. We have friends and family all over.

ETA: I wish they would show more copy from all over instead of just the one spot.

I had a first hand lesson many years ago about how news is sometimes embellished or exaggerated by the press. This happened in the area where I live. A bear fell into a deep hole and couldn't get out. Fish and Game and other authorities went to the scene and tried to figure out the best way to get the, by then, very angry bear out of the hole. After some discussion, they decided to bring in the local vet, have him tranquilize the bear and then hoist the bear out while it was sleeping. After the vet sedated the bear, the bear was successfully removed from the hole and as the rescuers watched from a safe distance, the bear, upon waking, ambled out into the woods.

The story was reported locally and then was picked up by the national news. By the time they were finished, the bear had attacked the vet causing injury to him and chased several people up trees and caused others to take refuge in their vehicles. All of us local people just shook our heads in amazement at how much the story had been distorted. Of course, people from out of the area who read or heard about it, most likely believed the news accounts and from that may have formed the opinion that bears are very dangerous animals to be mightily feared. The truth is that they can be, but it's rare. They are usually protecting cubs in the occasional instance of bear/human contact and even then prefer to retreat rather than attack.

So, was the national version of the bear story fake news? No, the event actually happened, but it certainly had been embellished and sensationalized because it made a better story that way. It reminded me of that old game of 'telephone' where one person tells a story to the person next to them and that person turns to the one on their right and retells the story and so on until it eventually goes full circle and is a completely different story than the original. I've learned to take news stories with a grain of salt; believing that they are based in truth but that the facts may be distorted.

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. I've watched golf tournaments and wonder how the golfer can swing the club because the people are so close behind him and then in another shot they're thirty feet away. So, maybe those people strolling behind him are farther away than they look and maybe he was just caught in a gust. The plantings in the area and his trousers show that it was pretty windy. The people behind him were walking with the wind at their back.

Donnie Jr. has no shame.

Similar to bossyvossy's story. I knew members of a French punk ska band, and during the riots in Paris (don't remember which year it was), I emailed one of the members to see if they were alright. He told me yeah it was crazy, but he knew of people who were putting their vehicles new and old onto the streets and lighting them afire for the insurance money! He thought it was funny.

"I am ranting about people that skew the news or flat out lie to manipulate emotions and/or intellect"

I agree with you completely. Ironically, the first place to start is the White House and others in political office who hypocritically coined and use the Fake News term as if that could possibly call in to question the real stories being reported that they don't wish to be accountable for. It's turned out to be an ineffective strategy and the trees fall one by one.

Otherwise, don't let the delivery styles nor the phony drama and outrage seen too often in the media influence your assessment of the messages one way or the other. They're different and separate. Assess the content on its own.

If you can, go to facebook and look at Mike Rowe's recent "Gale Farce" entry. The whole read is good. A key take-away for me was this that I am copying and pasting: "Earnestness and truth have nothing to do with one another. Consider that the next time you see a news story or a weather report that's preceded by a lurid graphic, dramatic music, and urgent sounding narration, and then ask yourself if the network is trying to inform you, or simply keep you from turning the channel."

(edited to get the paragraph formatting correct)

Yeah, that's on Rowe's website, not on facebook. And I agree with him becasue he's saying what I said before - don't let the delivery influence the assessment of the message, either pro or con.

thanks for the facebook/website clarification -- that should make it easier for non-facebook users to find, if anyone wants to.

"easier for non-facebook users to find"

Exactly. I'm one of those myself.

If a person/people find/s) it difficult to ...

... FACE ...

... the facts, should s/he be ...

... BOOKed ...

... do ya figger?

o j

(groan!!!) (and LOL!)

I'm not convinced that the Weather channel video above shows a reporter faking being in strong wind. If you view it full screen you do see small debris blowing quickly along the street closer to the young men in the background. And trees in the left background are bending strongly, if you watch more than just a snippet. Morevoer, many times wind will be strong in one spot, but much weaker just meters away. There are wind pockets set up by the peculiarity of nearby structures, geography, and even trees. I have looked out at my back garden during a storm and sometimes seen the tall hedges blowing till I thought they'd break, yet the crepe myrtle just twenty feet away is moving only gently, and not a flower been blown off of it. We've seen many times where one house will have its roof blown off, and the house next to it shows no damage. Even strong winds are changeable, not uniform, unpredictable. A person could stand in a place where the wind is whipping while nearby people could walk without difficulty.