CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things

[GURPS]

CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things





https://bgr.com/2017/01/02/cnn-hacking-fallout-screenshot/

The thing about computer hacking is that it’s such a general, far-reaching term that it’s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn’t already familiar with it. So, news networks who need b-roll footage to show while they’re talking about hacking usually just show keyboards or random strings of letters and numbers, while the audience stares blindly at the screen, assuming that whatever they’re looking at is somehow related to the topic. Or, if you’re CNN, you steal footage from one of the most popular video games of the year and hope that nobody watching will recognize it.

In a recent story about President Obama proposing sanctions against Russia for its roll in cyberattacks targeting the United States, CNN grabbed a screenshot of the hacking mini-game from the extremely popular RPG Fallout 4. First spotted by Reddit, the screenshot shows the menacing neon green letters that gamers will instantly recognize as being from the game.

 

[Hijinx]

CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things


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https://bgr.com/2017/01/02/cnn-hacking-fallout-screenshot/

The thing about computer hacking is that it’s such a general, far-reaching term that it’s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn’t already familiar with it. So, news networks who need b-roll footage to show while they’re talking about hacking usually just show keyboards or random strings of letters and numbers, while the audience stares blindly at the screen, assuming that whatever they’re looking at is somehow related to the topic. Or, if you’re CNN, you steal footage from one of the most popular video games of the year and hope that nobody watching will recognize it.

In a recent story about President Obama proposing sanctions against Russia for its roll in cyberattacks targeting the United States, CNN grabbed a screenshot of the hacking mini-game from the extremely popular RPG Fallout 4. First spotted by Reddit, the screenshot shows the menacing neon green letters that gamers will instantly recognize as being from the game.

So: would you say that CNN is being dishonest?

 

[GWguy]

So, CNN thinks it's still the 80s and we use terminal emulators and dial-up modems?

 

[glhs837]

So: would you say that CNN is being dishonest?

No, just lazy.

 

[vraiblonde]

"...while the audience stares blindly at the screen, assuming that whatever they’re looking at is somehow related to the topic."

When you're talking to morons, all you need is a picture because they don't understand what you're saying anyway. Hell, the CNN bubbleheads don't understand what they're saying - they just read the script. If a real computer security expert came on and started talking, the show host sit there slack-jawed and vacant-eyed. It's why Obama can come out and blather about things *he* doesn't understand, and his audience of brain deads will nod their heads like idiots. "Yeah, what he said!"

Again, it should embarrass people to be so ####ing stupid. At the very least they should admit they don't know jack about it and shut their pie holes. But now every mouth breather on the street is a cybersecurity expert and will rattle off all kinds of idiocy, then get pissed and start screaming if you question them or call them on it.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

"...while the audience stares blindly at the screen, assuming that whatever they’re looking at is somehow related to the topic."

When you're talking to morons, all you need is a picture because they don't understand what you're saying anyway. Hell, the CNN bubbleheads don't understand what they're saying - they just read the script. If a real computer security expert came on and started talking, the show host sit there slack-jawed and vacant-eyed. It's why Obama can come out and blather about things *he* doesn't understand, and his audience of brain deads will nod their heads like idiots. "Yeah, what he said!"

Again, it should embarrass people to be so ####ing stupid. At the very least they should admit they don't know jack about it and shut their pie holes. But now every mouth breather on the street is a cybersecurity expert and will rattle off all kinds of idiocy, then get pissed and start screaming if you question them or call them on it.

To be fair, Fox News had their fair share of blunders, including graphics. So it's not just CNN.

 

[warneckutz]

The game is cool at least.

 

[Hijinx]

I don't see the problem. Russia hacks us we hack them China hacks us we hack them. We spent millions to defeat Netanyahu, but we don't like our election screwed with. Freaking hypocrits. And not one whiff of any proof.

 

[vraiblonde]

To be fair, Fox News had their fair share of blunders, including graphics. So it's not just CNN.

Whatever. You don't need to "yabbut" me with other examples - they all suck in their own way. You may have forgotten about how critical I was of Fox show hosts and many of their guests during the 2016 presidential campaign.

 

[vraiblonde]

We spent millions to defeat Netanyahu, but we don't like our election screwed with.

And that is only one example of the US "meddling" in foreign elections.

If you want to have some fun, next time you hear/see someone saying that Russia "meddled" in our election, ask that person how exactly Russia did that, and how they affected the outcome. Let us know if you get a coherent answer.