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patrickt
09-30-2012, 07:47 AM
"It would seem that MSNBC has been caught in an act that can only be called tantamount to journalistic prostitution. Ace of Spades reports (http://ace.mu.nu/archives/333295.php) (h/t Instapundit) that the cable news network ran a clip showing an airport rally where Mitt Romney introduces Paul Ryan and the audience starts shouting, according to the chyron at the bottom of the screen, “Ryan! Ryan!” and Romney interrupts saying, “No, it’s Romney-Ryan! Romney-Ryan!” This, of course, makes Romney look both churlish and pathetic at the same time."
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/29/romney-msnbc-and-the-mcgurk-effect/

"How does it work? It’s the McGurk effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect), which, I confess, I had never heard of before this afternoon. Vision rules the human sensory apparatus. If our eyes tell us one thing and our ears another, the eyes, to coin a phrase, have it. We “hear” what our eyes tell us we heard. There’s a fascinating video at Ace of Spades of a professor explaining it. So if you want to make the audience hear something that wasn’t said, simply put it in a chyron and you have, almost literally, put words in another person’s mouth. That’s a neat trick, especially for “journalists” who have an agenda and no integrity."

We saw the same thing in the "enhanced" tape of the Zimmerman case. That was NBC, too, but it could be any of them.

coolwalker
10-03-2012, 09:32 AM
Same with CNN...this am while watching the Irish mexican chick (can't remember her name) one of the Sr Advisors to Romney was on and every time she started to answer a question the broad cut her off. She was gracious however and did her best to ignore it. Point being that the media loves Obama...he ignites their "news fire" and they want to keep him around for four years to have easy news fillers.

truthmatters
10-03-2012, 09:33 AM
I have listened to that tape before.

does the world knee sound the same to you as the word an?