Believe it or not, one year before 9/11 Technology Review published an article detailing TV-Fakery technology.

This must-read article, entitled "Lying With Pixels", was published in the July/August 2000 edition of Technology Review magazine.

"Lying With Pixels" discusses the exact type of TV-Fakery technology that was used on 9/11: inserting prerecorded footage into a live broadcast, in real-time.

The article specifically states that the military and TV networks have this technology, and that what we see on the evening news is no longer trustworthy.

Also discussed is the ability of a government or terrorist group to use fake video footage for political purposes.

One interesting excerpt follows:
Combine the potential erosion of faith in video authenticity with the so-called “CNN effect” and the stage is set for deception to move the world in new ways. Livingston describes the CNN effect as the ability of mass media to go beyond merely reporting what is happening to actually influencing decision-makers as they consider military, international assistance and other national and international issues. “The CNN effect is real,” says James Currie, professor of political science at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. “Every office you go into at the Pentagon has CNN on.” And that means, he says, that a government, terrorist or advocacy group could set geopolitical events in motion on the strength of a few hours’ worth of credibility achieved by distributing a snippet of well-doctored video.

The article was updated on 1/11/2002, which removed the last three paragraphs. The original version is available here.

The print version of this article can be downloaded in scanned JPEG format here.