Did CNN Turn Up The Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?

Michael Moore At The Oscars: ABC's Live Audio vs. CNN's Re-broadcast

I'm just looking over this footage myself, but I decided to help Ellison Horne out by digitizing and posting his video footage on the internet so the debate over this issue could begin, and so we could all look over the evidence together in order to determine whether or not the audio track was altered in the CNN rebroadcast.

Ellison didn't know how to put his VHS footage up on the Web. I could tell from the email he sent me that the project was really important to him, so I decided to help him out.

• Introduction
• Video and Audio of ABC Live Broadcast
• Video and Audio of CNN's Re-broadcast
• Waveform Analysis Of Both Clips
• Great Discussion By Some Audio Experts Via On Lisa Rein's Radar
• On Lisa Rein's Radar

Introduction (Courtesy of Ellison Horne)

To All:

I'm urgently calling for an investigation of the broadcast by CNN and CNN Headline News's reporting of Michael Moore's acceptance speech last month at the Academy Awards.

CNN and CNN Headline News aired a significantly different audio response to Mr. Moore's speech than was orginally broadcasted on ABC.

It seems that someone has manipulated the audio to give the impression there was constant loud "booing" throughout Moore's speech, when in reality, there was only marginal booing often overridden with cheers and applause.

This needs to be fully investigated.

As you may well know it is not easy to demonstrate how the corporate media influences mass opinion, but here we have a clear and shocking example of unethical behavior through manipulation of a historic event.

Let's help the public to better understand corporate media bias by making CNN and CNN Headline News face the REAL story.

Sincerely,

Ellison Horne
ellisonhorne@yahoo.com

ABC Live Broadcast

This was digitized from a VHS recording.

CNN Re-broadcast