Expert: Acosta video distributed by White House was doctored

[mystery-ak]

Expert: Acosta video distributed by White House was doctored
By DAVID BAUDER and CALVIN WOODWARD
35 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — A video distributed by the Trump administration to support its argument for banning CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House appears to have been doctored to make Acosta look more aggressive than he was during an exchange with a White House intern, an independent expert said Thursday.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted the video, which shows Acosta asking President Donald Trump a question on Wednesday as the intern tries to take his microphone away. But a frame-by-frame comparison with an Associated Press video of the same incident shows that the one tweeted by Sanders appears to have been altered to speed up Acosta’s arm movement as he touches the intern’s arm, according to Abba Shapiro, an independent video producer who examined the footage at AP’s request.

Earlier, Shapiro noticed that frames in the tweeted video were frozen to slow down the action, allowing it to run the same length as the AP one.

The alteration is “too precise to be an accident,” said Shapiro, who trains instructors to use video editing software.

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[mystery-ak]

Bullshit..the media will do anything to protect this POS

[Applewood]

Maybe I'm blind or maybe I saw a different version of the video, but what I saw was Acosta just trying to pull away from her.  It didn't look like an assault to me. 

[TomSea]

[Frank Cannon]

Abba Shapiro, an independent video producer

With a name like that he is obviously a GOPer.

BTW no one gives a shit about the vid. CNN is gone from the WH and no one except the Upper East Side crowd cares.

[Sanguine]

Maybe I'm blind or maybe I saw a different version of the video, but what I saw was Acosta just trying to pull away from her.  It didn't look like an assault to me.

Same here.

[WarmPotato]

Truth - It was NOT doctored.