The media was caught faking the Phoenix Dust Storm of 2011. This post shows the video on exactly how it was faked…

The media is once again caught faking the weather videos… this time it's the Phoenix Dust Storm of 2011 (July 6th that is).

So I'm forced to suffer through CNN's scare mongering at my favorite diner tonight when they show this obviously faked dust cloud.

Over and over and over again.

And over and over again I just shook my head as the media fakery steamrolls ahead. It never ends. They literally fake almost every aspect of the news these days.

Here's a helicopter shot of the "dust storm"… take a look at the bottom edges of dust cloud… it's a hard edge that is Photoshopped into the scene (it's officially known as Augmented Reality) – watch it below:

Am I saying the dust storm is fake? Nope. It probably happened.

Why does the media ALWAYS exaggerates doom? Why?

Update: 7/7/2011 @ 8:36 a.m.

A buddy of mine emailed me this YouTube video:

Unfortunately, this too is quite suspicious to me.

At the 59-second mark, the medium gray sky turns to black in just a second or two. I don't think it works like that.

But for the next 16 seconds, we're led to believe that the driver is able to go without headlights? I'd freak out in about a nanosecond and turn on my headlights if I couldn't see a foot ahead of me.

Here's an animated gif showing the last 16 seconds of that psyop clip:

If the sky was pitch black, most drivers would at least slow down… if not stop completely until the dust storm cloud passes away. But in this video, we're led to believe that drivers are going full speed.

It's pretty obvious to see what's going on here… the video uses a standard fade-to-black filter at the 59-second mark. Nothing more and nothing less.

Augmented Reality is scary awesome. But it's not perfect. And that's the good news… it helps us skeptical types to sniff out the BS.