https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/vegas-shooting-concert-workers-phone-footage-wiped-clean-by-fbi/#comment-265894

An on-screen performance meant to express as much raw emotion as possible vs. people being filmed/interviewed during and after a traumatic event in various stages of shock and grief and with various ways of processing it are night and day by comparison. Not to mention interviewers stopping and cutting out parts where the interviewees become more emotional (as in the first vid I linked to) — essentially the opposite of what a movie director would do.

It’s easy to contrast bad acting with great acting, but you can’t just map that comparison onto crisis acting vs. real response. Acting (which can be judged on how “good” it is) vs. real (which can’t) is much less straightforward to compare than acting vs. acting. The bad crisis acting you speak of should look distinctly off-key or forced, even to those not looking for it, to even begin to question the person(s) authenticity (assuming that’s all you have to go on regarding the person(s)).

“People filmed WW2 and Vietnam under fire, and it’s much easier today.” Yes, but they knew they were going into battle, planned filming into it, and these wars lasted years. Smartphones now, yes, but in the context of a few minutes of a surprise attack on unprepared civilians. You might as well ask why a bunch of North African migrants didn’t take selfies in the water after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, given that you got such good footage on your scuba diving trip.

How would people know if they were in a safe position without knowing exactly where the firing was originating, where it would be aimed next, how many assailants there were, if they were on the move, what the ammunition being fired could traverse, etc.? You wouldn’t know you were safe unless you were too far from the action to capture bullets hitting the ground (much of which was turf, not pavement) on camera, especially with a large crowd obscuring any view of the ground. And the overriding response of anyone who felt they were in harm’s way would be to save themselves and others (as in the accounts of survivors), not video record a hail of bullets. You wouldn’t be documenting jack shit, Ken Burns.

Never mind that firing may have originated from different vantage points and even ground level, and not only or mostly from an elevated angle where misses would be hitting the ground in close proximity to the crowd. There’s zero reason to believe there were only automatics firing blanks.

Cynicism is just an inversion of naiveté; both involve looking through colored lenses, so both can and do get in the way of perceiving truth. Now if you want to and can elaborate on any of that odd Pentagon funding, given what a monetary black hole it is, I’m all ears.

Stephen Lendman Sums Up the Media

http://stephenlendman.org/2017/10/succeed-western-media-without-really-trying/