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[bryant]

Huh. This is really interesting; someone took a listen to the ABC live broadcast of Michael Moore’s Oscar speech and the CNN report on Michael Moore’s Oscar speech and you know what? CNN really has the boos miked way higher. There’s one guy yelling “Booo” really loudly in the CNN version who doesn’t show up at all in the ABC version.

Listen for yourself. I didn’t think I’d hear a difference, but I did. I’m not gonna claim it’s foul play — it could just be a different set of mikes used by CNN — but it is really distinct.

This also tends to explain why a fair number of bloggers perceived nothing but boos, which honestly confused me at the time. I watched the Oscars live, and I was pretty sure I heard mixed boos and cheers. Anyone just watching the CNN footage would certainly have gotten the impression that the boos outweighed the cheers by a country mile.

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[gwenix.livejournal.com]

Also interesting, the orchestra drowning him out is differently volumed. You can actually hear him in the CNN version.

Although, a friend reported that in this week's Entertainment Weekly, the boos were mostly coming from the area where all of the executives sat. It would make sense if CNN were up there, now wouldn't it?

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I was attending an Oscars party that night just a little ways away and the crowd we were with (several hundred people) were also watching the broadcast live. In our group there were also some loud boos, but by and large there were more cheers and lots of smiles and nodding heads. The mics on the show, though, did sound like about 5 guys booing very loudly, and some of the reports I read afterwards (independent reporters, not the mainstream ones) claimed the overall crowd reaction at the Oscars was positive as well. Just my 2 cents.

[claudia-media.livejournal.com]

I think they just had their mikes differently placed, I don't think they doctored the sound. *shrug*

[bryant]

That'd be my guess. I didn't know if it was likely that CNN would have its own set of mikes at the Awards, but it seems more plausible than the alternative.