{"id":10557,"date":"2016-02-24T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10557"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T02:08:46","slug":"blizzard-of-hype-abc-7-falls-short-with-fake-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/02\/24\/blizzard-of-hype-abc-7-falls-short-with-fake-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard of hype: ABC 7 falls short with fake snow"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Alan<\/a>

<\/a> Alan Krashesky, Linda Yu and Jim Rose (ABC 7, February 24, 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n

If you were watching WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>news Wednesday afternoon, you\u2019d have thought it was snowing like crazy downtown. A panorama of slowly falling snowflakes filled the Chicago skyline behind the anchor desk throughout the ABC-owned station\u2019s newscasts.<\/p>\n

But it was all fake.<\/p>\n

A cheesy animated graphic of snow was superimposed over a bright blue depiction of the city. Even though there was no real snow falling there at the time \u2014 it had all moved south and east by then \u2014 the obvious visual message was that Chicago was being blanketed.<\/p>\n

At a time when local TV news has been properly faulted<\/a> for sensationalizing typical winter weather, ABC 7\u2019s manufactured blizzard in the backdrop only added to the absurdity.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo take it so far as to create snow that\u2019s not there, it\u2019s just a little much,\u201d sniffed one competitor. \u201cWe cannot be doing things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC 7 officials insisted there was no effort to mislead viewers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a choice to use a graphic representation, and we think our viewers are smart enough to be able to discern the difference,\u201d said Jayme Nicholas, a station spokesperson. \u201cWe think it was very clear that it was not a live shot.\"<\/p>\n

\"Cheryl<\/a>

Cheryl Scott, Ron Magers and Cheryl Burton (ABC 7, February 24, 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you were watching WLS-Channel 7 news Wednesday afternoon, you\u2019d have thought it was snowing like crazy downtown. A panorama of slowly falling snowflakes filled the Chicago skyline behind the anchor desk throughout the ABC-owned station\u2019s newscasts. But it was all fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10561,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions\/10561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}