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  • Hancock seems like a douche.

  • @potholer54: do u think the national geographic or discorvery channel do this? i've come to trust national geographic heavily for new information on everything from history to geology... this would really shake my view on them 2 know they've lied and/or been deceptive...

  • @cruelbusiness1984 -- They certainly use cutaways, but do they use them to change intent and meaning? I don't get those channels at home, so I haven't looked at them carefully enough to know. But I do get to see them when I stay in hotels, and Discovery has shown some pretty trashy programs, most of which it does not produce itself.

  • Excellent video. Everybody should know this.

  • this is why if you didnt see it in person you cant be sure it ever happened or what happened. news lies and people watching it carries the lies to others.

    this is why i maybe watch 2hrs a day of tv as THE REAL REPORTING is not on tv . it slants the views toward what they want to show..

  • I always learn so much from your videos

  • I always found it odd for clips of news interviews to do a cut to the interviewer. Like "wait...why is the video suddenly going to the other guy, while he isn't talking and just listening?"

    Guess this explains a lot...

  • this should be educational. Being born not that long ago I grew up with lots of television and never knew about this stuff until very recent actually. I mean people say tv is fake but when you are little you just don't grasp all the entireties of that. Some of this stuff like the cut away I never knew about until now. I knew they edited but not in that way.

  • good video potholer54 i will share this one with a link .

    i watch the news now for comedy and comedy for the truth.

    cheers :-)

  • @potholer54 What worries me is that I look at NatGeo, Disc Science and History channels for instance as containing facts only. Not this crap as shown. I take them as fact supported by experts, and hopefully unmentioned published and peer reviewed studies. Is there anything on TV ever that can be seen as a true "documentary"? And why doesn't publications like NewScientist make a big hoohah about this kind of thing? It's in our interest to have liars named and shamed.

  • Fair dealing states that criticism and news reporting are allowed under copyright law to a certain degree but it seems that this certain degree is at the discretion of those involved and whether they agree with the criticism they receive. There are a number of Channel 4 and indeed other broadcasters who make full use of this when doing their own review shows/programmes and then do not have to license any of the material they review as this is exempt from copyright law.

  • A really informative video. I knew the media were tricky beggars but didn't know just how far they went. Also isn't the UK copyright law very convenient for Channel 4? Not allowing you to debunk or critique their documentaries and interviews by slapping a copyright notice for posting exerts from their productions. It's criminal.

  • Sneaky 

  • @Planet7Station And what political agenda would that be? The author is educating people about how interviews can be twisted to change meanings.

  • @Planet7Station Well whats this guys political Agenda?

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  • Just a curious thought, to get around the problem of slander and misinformation is it common practice to take a little recording device of your own with the raw sound on it?

  • BEAUTIFUL and thank you very much. now i can argue with my step father about his irrational belief in aliens visiting earth once in the past. thnx

  • From the UK we aren't even allowed to view the comments on the original video !

  • I remember watching Charlie Brooker talking about the cutaway, pretty interesting.

  • Great article. People who are not used to video production need to understand this. Well done.

  • Another wonderful clip potholer54, Julian Assange is good hes an Aussie, could be wrong though. Oh my mind is changing...tricks of the trade...Fuck I've learnt something new. thanks potholer54...yeh I know sixty minutes is shit and this is why..Fuck after watching this I feel like a gullible religious person..

  • Very interesting video!

  • thanks for this! hmm, i'll never be able to watch the news in the same way again

  • very nice

  • It seems to me that deceptive editing of this type should be illegal.

  • @BoingotheClown it is, just most often it ISN'T used to deceive.

  • Thank you so much! This was VERY educational.

    I did kind of wonder about those cutaways, though I didn't know the term. It seemed a little suspicious when they chose to randomly show the interviewer... not doing anything.

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  • Nice work pot, wish I could watch the original, but stuck in Liverpool.

  • I guessed seven :)

  • Potholer54's videos completely demolish the propagandists and liars.

    Sallyamis is an AGW-denier. She/he doesn't have to even MENTION AGW in his paragraph: it is ALWAYS the AGW-deniers and creationists who object to potholer54's videos, without a shred of a logical argument or bit of evidence.

    Sallyamis presents NOTHING that changes the arguments presented by potholer in this video.

  • Had your piece been in praise of that crooked documentary, it might've been allowed by Channel 4. Having to cut out images of the actual topic under discussion is more evidence that intellectual property law curtails creativity and warps human development.

  • Excellent as always. Shame about the copyright block.

  • I saw a TV interview yesterday where there was a clock in the background. So I had an idea. To stop these edits, have 2 synchronised clocks. One behind both the journalist & subject (interviewee). WITH a Second's hand. That way every time the picture changes, we can see if it is, as they say, IN REAL TIME. The next time I;m interviewed I will insist on 2 CLOCKS.

  • You're like a real life Fox Moulder.

  • So: is Mark Zuckerberg a cool guy? Or is he the devil incarnate?

    Somebody, please! I need to know! :)

  • Cool Edit, nice.

  • are it not used as a commentary? jesus christ

  • Potholer rocks!

    So, is your conclusion that 60 Minutes was HONEST with their edits of Julian Assange? They did it for time-purposes only, and NOT change the meaning of what he said. Right?

    Great job, once again, Potholer!

    Nailed that lazy unpatriotic moron jesse ventura.

  • Environmentalists and victims of the bankster-oil-coal-corporate-we­lfare elite have risen up against their oppressors in Egypt, Greece, UK, Ireland, Canada - fighting the tar sands oil extraction, fighting gas fracking - and fighting to overthrow the oil-gas-coal system and replace it with a solar-wind-powered future.

    AGW-deniers are part of the corporate elite, forcing everybody else to pay for their pollution and THEIR crimes against humanity.

  • The BBC got into trouble recently for using "noddy shots" to give the impression that the interview was being conducted by one of their top stars when, in fact, it was being conducted by some member of the production crew who none of the viewers would have recognised.

  • Good stuff! Might be watching interviews more carefully from now :)

  • Graham Hancock is an Idiot Who cars what he thinks.

  • CLICK ON: disccentury, MY MUSIC, NEVER SEEN

  • I wish Gov Perry would watch this.

  • Potholer54 - you're an absolute legend, mate. Keep up the good work :)

  • Fascinating. I want to watch Ben Stein's mastershite, 'Expelled' again and take a shot every time I notice a jump cut and obvious editing.

    Anyone willing to donate their livers to this cause, feel free to contact me.

  • @LtGenAkshonJackson it works for a lot of politicians and priests!

  • Wouldn't the channel 4 stuff still fall under fair use?

  • This is really interesting, even just from a perspective of learning about how TV production. You should do more like it.

  • Well come in autocracy of media. The rules are done now. But...............give as a clue. Your job is wonderful, all ways was wonderful.

  • This needs more fucking views.

    People need to get a clue.

  • cant believe anything you see read or hear - welcome to 2011

  • Yeah Channel 4 are bastards. They block practically everthing if you're in Ireland. Which I am. :(

  • Anyone trusting to Potboiler54 (Peter Hadley)'s other videos beware: you will see the same techniques of twisting the truth, missing out crucial details, distorting the evidence and trying to deceive people to make a political point which you see demonstrated here. There is a reason why he knows so much about propaganda - he's got a lot of experience.

  • @sallyamis

    Well trusting anything outside of yourself is wrought with danger, maybe that's something you need to learn.

  • Great video man.

  • There is a mirror available of the original: /watch?v=Pj8GlqiOAIs&feature=r­elated

  • Great video Holer, and yeah, channel four are dicks.

  • Thumbs Up If Your Watching This In 2011..

    Fuck I'm Halarious

  • Very good 

  • Blocked due to copyright claims... modern censorship.

  • Brilliant video. I found it very interesting and I had no idea how networks did those cuts so effectively. Are there going to be any more videos like this? Showing us more tricks of the trade, I really hope so.

  • Thank you for a very informative video.

  • That was one of the best videos Ive ever watched on here...Should be seen by all because we are being manipulated no doubt. Interesting how on you tube, if someone uses these techniques they are called out and exposed as cherry picking quote miners...But seemingly go unchallenged on the major stations and networks.

  • Is that June Sarpong? Not really relevent, but I can't quite tell.

  • I sadly watched some TV recently and they are still trying to push the "pregnant man" story...

    You know, the one with the female who got hormone treatment to make her more manly then decided to get pregnant. So not really a man. And no discussion about the biological ramifications of those drugs on a growing foetus.

    Ratings and bad pop science over facts and reason EVERY TIME you switch the fucking thing on.

    Is it any wonder we are devolving mentally as a culture?

  • I learned something :) ....

  • Excellent. I already downloaded the original version via VPN and it was well worth the bother.

    This whole "editing down due to time restraints" argument, which in reality means "manipulating and distorting the truth to make interesting TV" bullshit needs to stop.

  • Pot Holer! At the end you said MOST PEOPLE don't trust what they see on TV. I would add a proviso. They may not trust TV but that doesn't stop them from wanting to believe what they want to believe. Especially if the TV agrees. I'm sure you agree with me. Similarly, Advertisers are becoming more effective, despite people turning the TV ads off. So effective they make poor people in the UK feel so deserving of the good life they experienced a recent sense of rightful indignation and tucked in.

  • excellent. Please keep up this kind of work...Im sure that a Mr. C.Brooker would be interested in this too.

  • @ukmidnighter Mr. C. Brooker needs to make more TV.

  • Good stuff, thanks. I knew about the print media, as I have used it before for cases. The audio media breath add ins was new and disturbing.

  • amazing

  • I hope that you have enough time to convince YouTube to stop being so limp wristed about what is obviously Fair Use for the C4 footage.

  • How do you mean "ban?" Did the ISP's really restrict access? Or was this for some kind of broadcast? Is there are lack of Fair Use laws in the UK? Sorry, for the ignorant questions!

  • @omegafighters -- The video was blocked because it contained copyright material. Yes, I have a legal right to use this material for critiquing purposes. But YouTube prefers a blanket ban on any copyright material rather than go through each case individually.

  • @potholer54 dang. that's kinda sad, actually. thanks for the info though. keep it up!

  • @potholer54 You Tube has a blanket ban hey? Now what's that about Absolute Power? & I expect we can't critique You Tube? Yet You Tube encourages (by not stopping) videos of Animal Abuse. In New South Wales it is an OFFENCE to cause animals to fight. Yet they proliferate on You Tube. As do videos of feeding lizards (etc) live vertibate (rabbits, chickens) animals. If I may bite the animal that feeds me, I would expect there are You Tube videos of someone feeding a live kitten to a Monitor lizard

  • @listen2meokidoki PS: I said "OFFENCE". Let me explain that the word means "break the law" or, "Wrong-doing". Which explanation reminds me of the novel 1984. And "News Speak". While the trust of that book is coming true, I think there is an equal degradation to the language being caused by the loss of proper grammar. How pathetic - wrong bloody doing. Yet while I have done my share of stealing, I prefer to call it "Taking without consent", which does not make me a Wrong-Doer. Just a thief.

  • Hahaha. Channel 4 made themselves look even worse in this video! I will never watch them again and encourage my friends not to either.

  • what would happen to all those books, you ask?well, there are tables that need leveling, man!thank you for the updated version!your information about cuts and editing is extremely useful.my father taught me to be critical in what i see on tv (and in print),but i did not know this.

  • Well done @potholer54 - thought I should have known a lot of that, but it was a real eye-opener. Keep up the good work.

  • I don't like this. By replacing the video at the last 4 minutes, we now can't see the examples you were giving before as they happen. Specifically the 9000 years ago reference. That's important! >.< (I understand why you did it, it just bothers me that you did and that we can't see the example you give)

  • IPCC"s Ben Santer already admitted to the hoax, give it up.

  • "How dare you make fun of us! That's so disrespectful! M'Lord, call for a ban of this video!" - bunch of wankers.

  • Great video, Potholer - what an eye opener! You probably assume we mortals know waaaay more about the nitty gritty of reporting than we do. Keep up the good work.

  • @potholer54 you are a fucking genius. i am now going to astonish my family by revealing all the lies in modern news programming on the television. thanks.

  • Holy shit, you blow my mind with this.

  • Very interesting. Question direct to Potholer. Was the Channel 4 show of Undercover Mosque and its follow up a rigged show?

  • @0sacrosanct =Undercover Mosque = Sorry, I haven't seen it.

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  • i will pay $45 of my tuition to u today..

  • What was changed to avoid the ban? Just asking.

  • @luccaskunk Please see the video description

  • @potholer54 I looked at the video description before i asked. It doesn't mention what was cut and I'm not prepared to do a side by side... I'm jus curious because I saw nothing in your original video that I would find remotely offensive... And being from America, I'm scratching my head thinking "uh, freedom of speech, transformative use, etc, etc... what's the big deal?"

    I swear governments censorship in general confounds me.

  • @luccaskunk -- I cut all of that film of Hancock's "Quest for the Lost Civilization" and replaced it with still images and audio. The film incurred the ban, but the still images and audio from the same film did not. This could be a straightforward copyright issue (which is odd, because the film can be seen elsewhere on YouTube) but more likely because Hancock is very sensitive to criciticism.

  • @potholer54 ...and he's sensitive to criticism because he's wrong.

  • @potholer54 Well, I guess I should make a youtube video about Hancock just for the hell of it :P

  • @potholer54 Ah, what a shame. It was such a text book example of transformative use too!

  • @potholer54 Thank you for the awesome videos. I rather enjoy being enlightened about how the media gets things wrong, sometimes even on purpose. Please keep up the good work. And also, don't listen to the conspiracy theorists. The rest of us who aren't subject to paranoid delusions (not naming any names) appreciate all the work you do!

  • @potholer54 I loved your video and felt somewhat disturbed that an otherwise reputable company like Channel 4 would block your video - so I complained to them.

    I said: "There was NO inference by the (you) that Channel 4 was colluding in this, however Channel 4's decision to ban the use of this clip even for educational purposes, made Channel 4 seem somehow complicit in this deplorable activity."

    They replied...

  • @potholer54 ..."The person who has been refused permission would need to contact us directly and fully explain his use of the material. ... The fact remains that unless you own the copyright on any video you upload to youtube or anywhere else, you need to obtain permission. Permission has not been sought through the correct channels it would appear in this case."

    Did you ask their permission? If so, on what grounds did they refuse?

  • @potholer54 G'day... Lovely stuff, thanks for making & posting it ! Just as long as y' don't pretend that ONLY Mainstream Institutions are capable of conducting a rigorous Scientific Experiment. Search 'boomerang aerophysics', or 'sunfoil science', or even 'solar thermal ramjet', to see a Hillbilly's view ; & do please feel free to attempt some debunking, correction beats erroneousness. In my experience !

  • That was a eye opener!!!

  • BAAAAAAAAAAMM

  • That was very enlightening. Thank you so much!

  • This reminds me ov another viedo on TY:

    From Charlie Brookers Screenwipe - watch?v=fbRcBR8zguk&feature=re­lmfu

  • I've learnt quite a lot from this. Nice work potholer!

  • Thanks for that Potholer. I live in Ireland and tried to watch this yesterday and couldn't.

  • Thanks for posting this version potholer, it's nice to know you read your comments - and it was well worth watching!

  • Thanks Potholer. Another excellent piece. BRAVO!!!

    Thumbs Up!!!

    "Figures don't lie, but LIARS figure."

    Any dishonest jerk can cut, edit & manipulate a clip to distort the truth, or just flat-out LIE!!!

    Murdoch's News Corp. & FOX News are experts.

    To distinguish, you need to have at least some reliability on sources or at least on the journalist's personal integrity.

    Sadly, for most ignorant viewers, that's a pipe-dream, because they have utterly no scientific background to even have a clue.

  • OK people. If you want to watch the original from the UK go to wwwdotatproxydotnet (thats atproxy not @proxy) and paste the URL of this clip into the page. When you get to this video via that website you should be able to see a link to the original to the right hand side. Click it. It opens in JWPlayer for some reason and may be a bit slow so just pause it to give it time to buffer...

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  • Good stuff 54.

  • Thanks potholer

  • nothing new there (being a film student) big part of why I refuse to work in TV

  • potholer54 should be a subject at school!

  • @thestonylein We could take that idea a bit further. How about the "Potholer Academy of Proper Education".

    I'd send my children. If I had any...

    d:-)

  • Channel 4 sucks. >:P

  • Ever tried it with Vimeo?

  • Until I saw this video, I had no real concerns or even focused awareness of this editing. I knew and appreciated editing for condensation and smoothness of the program, but not how interviews could be so drastically effected. Thank you for opening my eyes. I will look a bit more critically at what I see from now on and hopefully, will see things a bit clearer. I should get lots of practice with the US presidential election coming up.

  • Thanks for another fantastic education into how to keep our minds free from garbage!...

    All high school students should have to watch this video and pass a test after-wards with 90 or above.

  • Counted six =p Made me happy

  • Here's a perfectly hilarious example of what potholer54 is talking about...

    watch?v=OOy_oP3ESQY

  • Great video - thanks, and I'm glad you did the extra work to make it available here in the UK, even though it is obviously disappointing to be missing the money shots from the final few minutes.

  • thanks for the new upload, i was so depressed when i saw I couldn't watch a potholer video!

    also thanks for yet another excellent informative video, I always knew editing was good I just never realised how good

  • The word for this mark...

    is ellipsis not ellipse

  • Great video - thanks!

  • Very interesting and informative - thanks.

  • Chan 4? Family Guy:

    Johnny: Helen, there's moisture on the outside of my glass.

    Helen: It's condensation Johnny.

    Johnny: But what about the fog on the windows?

    Helen: It's not fog Johnny, it too is called condensation.

    Johnny: Con-den-sation-sation-sation-s­ation.

  • IP tunnel the original version. Censorous twats.

  • I'm reminded of an anti-pope documentary I saw on channel 4 by peter tatchell before the protest the pope march in London last year. When I recently saw a vid defending the pope with regards to the "protecting pedos" controversy, I checked some sources on Wikipedia and found he may not be as bad as the press made him out to be. I'd love to watch a potholer vid defending the pope against the press. That'd be weird and very interesting.

  • Well this week on Fareed Zakaria, Paul Krugman suggested that the liberal elite invent a fake enemy and declare war on it in order to stimulate the economy. I checked out Krugman in his own written words on his NY Times blog ...and it was no different. What do we make of this?

  • Maybe the interviewees should place a tape recorder on the table so they can easily provide evidence for fraudulent use of their voice.

  • It's how Homer Simpson was wrongfully accused of sexual assault! God damn media!

  • potholer54 should be commended for not simply saying "you can tell jesse venturers program is a load of bollocks, because it presents june sarpong as a person who can grasp simple concepts". bravo sir, you're a better man than me.

  • Like yourself, I've done heaps of interviews and editing, so I remember doing noddies.

    But having said that... well done for bothering to repost a video without the copyright stuff.

    Really appreciate that you take the time to do that.

  • Thank you for the re-uploading this for the blocked audiences. It's very interesting.

  • Ok, I wasn't expecting my question to be answered in the video herp derp. Anyway, fascinating stuff, thanks again!

  • Ist it just that you dont't have an NLE Video Programm or do you (guys) realy work that complicated? Not meant to be insulting. This just apears very odd. (yes, I know, this text may not be free of errors concerning grama or typos)

  • Thanks potholer54! No idea why my UK IP address blocks Channel cocking 4, but oh well...

  • Its like watching Charlie Brooker, I like.

  • Does anybody have a mirror for the real last 4 minutes? Great video. A real eyeopener.

  • There`s a "Remix this video" option -are you havin` a larf?

  • Doesn't 4 minutes of an 18 minute vid qualify as "Fair Use"?

    P.S. when you said that "only a journalist with a brain the size of a doughnut", Bill O'Reilly immediately popped into my head.

  • Thanks for the re-post. 

  • Charlie Brooker's screenwipe/newswipe gives a pretty good summary of how media does cuts like this too. Good video for people who don't know about these things though potholer

  • If ever I were interviewed like this I'd blu-tack a stopwatch to my forehead :)

  • Doesn't 4 minutes of an 18 minute vid qualify as "Fair Use"?

  • Good vid Potholer. A lot of people don't notice such things. I only found 5 out of 6 edits, and I didn't find them because I'm smart or anything, but because media in Croatia have the same tactics and you get used to it after a while... Keep up the good work, and I hope to see more of It!

  • I'm glad you made this video. I have a very hard time explaining to my friends why i'm not comfortable watching tv anymore

  • having workedin TV for many years I can tell you that what is being said here is all true.

  • A real eye-opener, and an ear-opener as well.

  • "We all know it but we still fall for it."

    So true! It's the same with newspapers. I'd thought that people like to see their opinions reflected back at them by a guy telling them how incredibly correct they are, but I suppose sheer entertainment and controversy value holds a lot of weight, too.

  • One fact that can't be edited out: Potholer definitely works for the globalists! Did you hear his use of the phrase 'counter culture'?As if anyone,disagreeing with main stream,banker controlled,propaganda (for whom Potholer is a sycophant), is part of a counter culture. I hope most who watch Potholer's globalist propaganda agenda are waking up to the 'tricks of the trade' the globalists employ: Be authoritative & factual about one thing while completely distorting the reality of something else.

  • @TroddinSod

    "Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day"

  • @TroddinSod Haha! You're funny! Tell us about airplane food next!

  • @TroddinSod I happen to know for a fact that Potholer is a mason, member of the Illuminati, President of the NWO && moonlights as Father Christmas on December 25th!

  • @trooperJac *prepares a damning rebuttal about him being a mason, and about how the only people more full of shit than conspiracy theorists who talk about the Freemasons are the Freemasons themselves. Also points out that the Illuminati were disbanded over 2 centuries ago. Then sees the rest and realizes that it was a joke.*

  • @TroddinSod I don't know what "globalism" is, but did you ever consider people may have different beliefs and opinions on many things all on their own, without belonging to some sort of group?

  • @SexyMelon Super great question. However, it is beyond the mental capability of those, with an extremist fanaticism obsessed with an undefined "New World Order" (without EVER logically specifying WHO is part of this mysterious NWO) and "global elite", to even UNDERSTAND your question, let alone try to answer it.

    They simply WILL not.

  • @TroddinSod Wait. Let me get this straight... Potholer, who posts a video showing people how to spot deceptive propaganda and somehow that makes him a part of a conspiracy? Seriously? Are you a troll or genuinely that paranoid?

  • @luccaskunk Perhaps you should simply read what I wrote to get it straight! Potholer is obviously a hired gun by the globalists banking cartel. Don't you realize that the bankers will make billions on the phoney 'Climate Change' carbon credit laws? Yet he never quotes the real scientists that have proven CO2 contributes nothing to climate change. Why doesn't he report on the criminal banking cartel that will sell & profit millions on the air plants & animals exchange. Wake up!!