Joe Rogan (@joerogan) posted on Instagram: “Yellow Journalism #fakenews”

Yeah I have very little experience with video but just trying to print simple shit like fliers for work I've found it sometimes impossible to get colors to look remotely the same between different peoples' monitors, different file formats, and different printers. (I think there are ways to calibrate some monitors but the worst part is trying to explain to old people that how something looks in their smartphone's pdf reader or printed on a desktop inkjet isn't necessarily how its going to look printed on glossy paper from OfficeMax. Their minds sincerely can't handle it.) I can't imagine how hard it must be for video across different platforms, encoding, formats, etc. That's the first thing I thought of. There's probably some benign little technical reason colors don't look the same.

After Trayvon Martin was killed there were all these conspiracies floating around in reddit threads about the media "darkening" George Zimmerman's skin in pictures and when you'd ask for further evidence they would link to like a mimeograph of a screengrab of a photocopy of a CNN screen filmed under a black light where there would be endless possibilities for the colors to get distorted.

I'm sure Joe will apologize to CNN impugning them based on his own misunderstanding right?

BTW anyone looking for a really crazy example of a news network distorting pictures look at this time Fox news made a couple New York Times reporters noses and ears look bigger then added giant dark circles under their eyes and made their teeth yellower all because the reporters wrote some incredibly minor thing about Fox's ratings briefly dipping. That's actual 1984 Emmanuel Goldstein 2 minutes hate shit: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-airs-altered-photos-ny-times-reporters

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