http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1aVEl1yE4

Questions raised by this footage.

1. If this was actually shot indoors then why at 4:09 when they pan the camera from the monitor back to the reporter, why can we see the back of a large satellite dish? Have you ever seen a satellite dish indoors?

2. If everything is planned out, scripted out, why do these guys have to stand around waiting to go on the air for so long?

3. Why are they second-guessing the specific facts of what has happened? If everything has been planned out as some sort of ruse, then all the “facts” would be well known in advance and they wouldn’t have to debate the minutia of it.

4. Why is the footage beamed up to a satellite, if it’s being done in the same studio in Atlanta there would be no reason to broadcast the raw feed. If it’s fake this only increases the chance of someone catching a mistake that reveals the ruse.

There are real conspiracies out there, don’t waste your time accepting any old trash as evidence. Yes, the media should be questioned with a critical eye, but EVERYONE should be questioned, even the empty claims made in this video! This is exactly the kinda crap that makes conspiracy theorists look bad.

Don’t you think the large number of bushes and a very large palm tree probably means they are actually outside? I see no reason to think they aren’t outside. A lot of people are reading a lot of ignorant things in to this clip. They seem to be mistaking their own ignorance and misunderstanding as evidence. Evidence doesn’t work that way.

And you wonder why people think conspiracy theorists are all nuts. It’s crap like that that gives genuine investigation in to genuine conspiracies a bad name.

1. It’s in the morning but it oh so bright! Duh, that’s because they have bright lights shining on them, hardly that out there for a news crew on remote.

2. I keep hearing claims this is shot in a studio, but the way the leaves on the palm trees move belies that it is outside (maybe they are using a giant fan? Then how come we can’t hear the fan?)

3. What the big deal about the door handle? Do they not have door handles in Saudi Arabia?

4. I think people are assuming that the blue background is the sky (or a fake sky), but in fact it’s just a regular old wall, the “sky” is actually the black area in between (not too suprising since it’s six in the morning and the sun is just dawning and they are under very bright lights). You can see shadows on this wall more than once.

This is the problem with conspiracy theorists, they’ll jump on any old thing they think is evidence without thinking it through, and you wonder why no one takes you seriously. There are real conspiracies out there!!! Don’t accept any old trash as evidence, it makes you look foolish and desperate and out-of-touch.

And yea they were laughing and joking during the filming. Probably because they were getting paid way more money then you or me.

“The clip never implies that the reporter was ever pretending “not” to be in a studio. As another commenter noted – this is standard practice.”

The sirens imply that it was shot outside,
the hotel backdrop implies that it was shot outside,
the fake “put on your gas mask quickly!” implies that it was shot outside,
the smell of rocket exhaust implies that it was shot outside,
The looking up at the fake sky implies that it was shot outside,
The the palm tree implies that it was shot outside,
Jaco’s fake nervous looking about at 1:40 or so implies that it was shot outside,
Carl looking about nervously at the studio sky around 2:30

Sane says:

“Some plastic trees in a hotel lobby is not a media conspiracy…”

The second clip [ of the studio] indicates that it IS a studio.. hardly a hotel lobby. please note exposed breaker box …

Sane says:

“A “live shoot” in a war zone is often shot from a makeshift studio, often in hotel basements.”

Then why play act by looking around for danger?

Why pretend that this shoot is taking place outside on the street, in front of a hotel?

Why look up at the basement “sky”?

I have no problem with Jaco reporting “live” from the safety of a basement in a war zone, as long as he says :”

” I am reporting from the safety of a basement in Saudi Arabia where outside there is a rocket attack happening…”

Lastly with the credibility of this “live report” shot all to hell…

How do we know that:

A: it WAS shot in Saudi Arabia?
B: it really shot and aired “live”

I would just love to give CNN the “benefit of the doubt” as you seem to have, but the truth is in all my years on this planet CNN has never given me reason to extend them that courtesy.

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche.-