BBC filming and reality-ish.

[DonPeffers]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/26/bbc-withdraws-human-planet-series-whale-hunt-scenes-exposed/   Headline---BBC withdraws Human Planet series after whale hunt scenes exposed as more fakery 

'The BBC has withdrawn Human Planet from distribution after admitting that the series faked scenes of an Indonesian hunter harpooning a whale.

Human Planet. It emerges that treehouses the tribe built 140 feet above the tropical rainforest back in 2011 were constructed especially for the cameras, and that the locals don’t bother with anything so ridiculous, preferring to live much closer to the ground. In other words, they built a camera-friendly treehouse (described in the commentary as “their new home”) for a sequence which won the BBC loads of awards for their fearless coverage of an exotic way of life. 

 Scandal in 2011 when the BBC was forced to admit that scenes featuring a polar bear and her cubs in Frozen Planet were actually filmed in a zoo in the Netherlands and not in an Arctic environment. The same year, the Human Planet series showed a young camel being killed by a wolf, but later it emerged that because the filmmakers couldn’t find a wild wolf, they used a semi-domesticated animal brought to the location on a lead. 

BBC has admitted that footage of mountains shown in their Earth’s Natural Wonders series last February was not Nepal, but footage of Italy’s Dolomites.

In 1997, a sequence with a bear and her cubs was filmed in a zoo in Belgium, but viewers were not told this at the time.'

And I thought fake stories only started a couple of years ago when a guy tried to become US President.

 

[pistonbroke]

The problem is there is so much BS spread around at random these days we dont know who to believe .

The old adage  "never let the truth get in the way of a good story" ,  was once used on the odd occasion , nowadays it has become the normal thing to do   

[Lawrie]

2 hours ago, pistonbroke said:

....., nowadays it has become the normal thing to do   

Yes, this is progress