{"id":7143,"date":"2018-09-17T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2018-09-17T21:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:18:30","slug":"this-is-actually-genuine-and-not-faked-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/09\/17\/this-is-actually-genuine-and-not-faked-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"This is genuine and not faked reporting – Anderson Cooper was intentionally showing the dangers of unseen drop offs in flood waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of the Weather Channel’s Mike Siedel, caught faking his stance in the winds in North Carolina, the following image began circulating online as another example of faked news reporting. But context matters – its not fake but a genuine report. I saw this in my Twitter feed, although this one is from the copy on Snopes.com.<\/p>\n

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I’ve seen some of the original clips of this and Anderson Cooper was demonstrating the dangers of walking in shallow flood waters after Hurricane Ike. He moved around to illustrate how an unseen deep ditch turns a few inches of flood into a dangerous situation.<\/p>\n

Anderson Cooper was doing a completely legitimate news report about this danger. This shows how a still image, capturing an instantaneous moment in time loses context – and can then be re-purposed for propaganda messaging.<\/p>\n

Source: FACT CHECK: Is This Anderson Cooper Standing in a Ditch While Reporting Hurricane Florence?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image does not show what people think it shows. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was moving around in the water to illustrate the dangers of unseen drop offs in flood waters. I’ve seen clips of the original that show this is what he was doing and this was not “fake news”. The original broadcast occurred after Hurricane Ike. This Internet meme illustrates how an instantaneous, moment in time still image loses all context – and can be readily repurposed into a propaganda message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-practice","category-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}