Wow! Journalist Timothy Burke: Film opening RNC was made up of stock video footage from Getty

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from Burke with video showing the footage and the page from the Getty website:

Link to tweet

loool that whole much-ballyhooed Trump "film" that opened the RNC tonight was made up of stock footage from Getty. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT REAL

[Anon-C]

1. Loll!

[dchill]

2. The intended audience is not real, either.

[madaboutharry]

3. They cobbled this together in a couple of weeks and it shows.

It is terribly amateurish.

All they seem to have is trying to paint Democrats as out of control Commies. It is ridiculous.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Hope they paid the proper royalty fee.

These fuckers will try to rip anyone off... and Getty lawyers will have none of it.

[Talitha]

5. The cheapskates hired the low-bid production crew...

[JHB]

6. Well, they're real, they're just not Republicans.

There's an ad for us: Roll the video in a reduced-screen, and in the border add labels:

Stock image, usage price $xxxx

and just keep a running tally of the swell images that were bought off the shelf.

[groundloop]

17. bought off the shelf, or stolen off the shelf?

It's likely that they didn't pay for the use of these videos, that's how tRump rolls.

[misanthrope]

18. Agreed

All things according to their nature. If they were watermarked, they just got someone to photoshop it out.

[Takket]

7. lazy scumbags couldn't even take the time to just snap some photos?

GEEZ, they are pathetic!!!!!!!!

[mdbl]

8. Just like the first 10 years of the Fux News Channel

they were too cheap and lazy to send photographers to an actual story.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. The typical Republican voter doesn't look like these people.

seriously, they need normal Dems and Indies to make a fake video of the Republican vision of America.

[patphil]

10. This is what plagiarism looks like.

Good for an "F" if it was done by a college student in a journalism class.

I guess they have a pretty small budget.

[Sophiedillo]

11. They left the watermarks on the photos

which means that they stole the images. When you actually buy the stock image, the watermark is not there.

[More_Cowbell]

13. The watermarks weren't in the video, though

They're just on the images that this person (or whoever did it) used to show that the video clips came from Getty, I think.

[misanthrope]

19. Removing watermarks with Photoshop-type programs isn't that hard

I've seen it done.

[onetexan]

12. LOL amateurish & insane. Is the hatefest over yet?

[Midnight Writer]

14. Running a campaign like a business.

All of these capitalists are there to get paid, and they more they cut costs the more they make.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Their base won't notice, and what's even worse,

if they do notice, they won't care.

[JDC]

16. Wow. That is a most appropriate metaphor for the RNC

Completely made up of borrowed everything. Not an original or authentic idea/ person in the bunch