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How can we really know if this news clip was meant to be real or fake? The clip looks real, not staged, the news reporter and the announcer both look credible. The clip starts off as being quite funny, it incorporates graphics for the effect of the bats coming out of the Christmas tree. The narrative in this film unfold by telling the story of a local Christmas tree farmer and a housewife that purchases fake trees. The questions that are being asked are “What makes a Christmas tree real or fake?” and “Which is better?”

Looking at the report you can clearly tell that it is fake. The report is giving a false representation of what news in reality is. It has some level of truth in it because it aims at giving credible stories from both the farmer and the housewife. They both are talking about things that are happening in the “real” world. By this I mean that in the event that you buy a real Christmas tree, there could be a chance that a bat or some animal could be living in it and could go unnoticed by the farmer that sells it. However, notice that the story is being told in a certain way. The people being interviewed and the interviewer are behaving in different ways.

The irony of it all is that this news report is trying to get the question of whether a Christmas tree is fake or not, answered, but the report is clearly fake. It is quite interesting to know that documentaries, news reports, photographs, paintings and other forms of media such as these are being presented as narratives in light of them being fake. Then, can we ask this question, Is it fakery if we dont have the crediblity to back it up? Who made these expertists, well expertists?

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