Not to overreact, but regardless of intent and quality of this particular video, them normalizing the promotion of this shit is dangerous for the future of humanity bc who will know what a famous person really said (think of a doctored video of either Biden or Trump saying they’re going to nuke another country)

That’s shocking lmao! so pointless as well just desperate for any sort of post interaction they can get.

It’s because they think we big time stupid

Its fucked up enough this happens in real journalism

The fact that people think this is necessary in sports journalism (where the stakes are near zero) is actually insane

I wouldn’t say it’s crossing a line but would say it’s dumb. Although anyone confused when you see the COVID style interview and no fans/bench…I don’t know the reason why SC did this but it’s low effort.

I took several classes on ethics in journalism. This absolutely crosses a line.

My big takeaway was that you cannot change the meaning of what someone did or said through your editing. ESPN has done exactly that here.

We studied an example of photojournalism and looked at an image of a high school player releasing a ball at the top of his jump shot. My teacher said that if we were to Photoshop out the basketball, that’s fine because the context tells us this was a basketball game and this person was shooting the ball. However if we used Photoshop to replace the ball with, say, a hand grenade well that drastically changes the meaning of the image.

What ESPN did here is no different. Through editing, they changed the meaning of what Dame said.