I don't know if any other Tweet was put off by this. A couple of weeks ago,
the Nature of Things (an environmentally-oriented current affairs program
which runs on the Candian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday nights)
hosted by David Suzuki aired a documentary on the white-morph Black Bears
of one of the islands off the north coast of BC. Stunning camera work with
some of the most memorable sequences I have ever seen as the footage followed
a young bear around through the summer-fall seasons. What really irked me,
though, was the Blue Jays, Kentucky Warblers and Acadian Flycatchers
singing away in the background! Obviously, the producer had decided that
the resident Winter Wrens, Steller's Jays and ravens were not enough to
hold the listener's interest. Instead, they grabbed a tape of the eastern
hardwood forest and cut and pasted as they saw fit. It definitely made me
wonder if any other part of the whole production was as equally false. I
suppose it wouldn't matter to 98% of the viewers but it stuck in my craw.
There should be a law that the soundtrack has to be recorded at the same
time as the video!

- Jack

Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca