Several news outlets are reporting this morning that Friday night’s Olympic ceremony had supposedly faked fireworks in them. There was a sequence that showed fireworks being set off that were in the shape of footprints that were approaching the stadium.

THIS IS NOT NEWS

What no one seems to be reporting is anyone who watched NBC’s broadcast would know they said these particular fireworks were not real. It was deemed unsafe to actually have a helicopter fly through the path of the fireworks and the solution was to create them as special effects.

Maybe there was other fakery, but in this case it’s not a gotcha.

written by JM