Make Believe: MSNBC Uses LED Screen to Make it Appear As Though They Are Reporting On-Site at RNC
Rachel Maddow plays make-believe with an LED screen./Image: A video screenshot.
Top MSNBC hosts are using an LED screen to cover the Republican National Convention giving the false appearance that they are reporting on-site from the venue in Milwaukee.
According to the New York Times the screen behind Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, and other MSNBC anchors makes it seem like they are reporting live from the RNC, but they have not been inside the convention hall.
They are not even in the same city.
MSNBC panel plays make believe with LED screen./Image:Video screenshot.
The Times report reads, “Instead, they were broadcasting from a studio in Midtown Manhattan, as a live feed of the convention floor was projected onto an LED screen behind them.”
“The arrangement — which several veteran television news producers described as unorthodox — has created something of a trompe l’oeil effect.
