The thing about computer hacking is that it’s such a general, far-reaching term that it’s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn’t already familiar with it. So, news networks who need b-roll footage to show while they’re talking about hacking usually just show keyboards or random strings of letters and numbers, while the audience stares blindly at the screen, assuming that whatever they’re looking at is somehow related to the topic. Or, if you’re CNN, you steal footage from one of the most popular video games of the year and hope that nobody watching will recognize it. In a recent story about President Obama proposing sanctions against Russia for its roll in cyberattacks targeting the United States, CNN grabbed a screenshot of the hacking mini-game from the extremely popular RPG Fallout 4. First spotted by Reddit, the screenshot shows the menacing neon green letters that gamers will instantly recognize as being from the game. Wow CNN your simply pathetic, and I bet many Americans watching this CNN story didn't even notice how they used Fallout 4 to spread the Russian hack propaganda. Once more this just proves that the mainstream media is falling apart in America, now having to resort to video game screen shots to spread the misinformation they tell in their fables. Like really how stupid can a mainstream news source be, when Fallout 4 is one of the most popular video games to date in 2016...Did they not understand how someone would pick up on this when spreading the major lie of the Russian hack, like really CNN millions of people play this game around the world.
