A turnaround newb writes "London's Telegraph record reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the telly* standard of the Olympic Opening wedding




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celebrate were in truth adding machine generated. But — hold on — it's not indubitably as bad as you think. The faked fireworks were really set-off at the stadium, but because of future dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot." To me, the reasoning behind the faked display is no consolation or excuse — it seems hard to swallow that NBC was unaware of this televised deception. I'm glad that it was good-naturedly "revealed" this weekend (according to that Telegraph article), but it's disheartening that such a large crowd can watch (in person, and around the world) such a display and have no reason to realize they've been duped. What about when weightier events are at issue? There's also a slightly more thoroughgoing story at sky.com.

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