Wednesday, December 21, 2011

BBC spokeswoman: We didn't mislead you, we just used "careful wording" in order to make you believe that you were seeing something that you weren't actually seeing

BBC accused of routine 'fakery' in wildlife documentaries - Telegraph

Producers use sound effects to mimic the noises made by real animals, including such seemingly bizarre practices as adding custard powder to a woman’s stocking which is then squeezed to sound like polar bears skidding on ice or else bears walking through a forest. ...[A BBC spokeswoman] added: “In Frozen Planet the narration was carefully worded so it didn’t mislead the audience and talked in general about polar bears in the wild rather than the specific cubs shown.

BBC's little white lie: Polar bear cubs were filmed for Frozen Planet in a zoo, not the Arctic | Mail Online

[caption] The polar bear and cub inside the man-made den fashioned out of wood and covered in fake snow

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not that we should let the BBC off for its propagandizing in general, but wildlife documentaries are "faked" all the time. Do people think a cameraman crawls into the underground lair of a red fox to film said fox giving birth or tending to her newborn pups?