The recording never lies?

The recording never lies?

Daniel Morris, producer of the Wild Coast radio series, considers himself to be a careful journalist, a sceptic even. But in 1990, when he saw recordings of whales captured in a harbour (1) ________, he thought he was seeing scientific proof that these visitors had really arrived. He published the recordings alongside an article he wrote, (2) ________ whales as winter visitors. It was not until 2009 that the two technicians responsible finally admitted the recording was a (3) ________. They simply downloaded whale calls from a large online archive and (4) ________ them with recordings of waves. The results are (5) ________ beautiful. But the simplicity of the trick (6) ________ a basic principle of broadcasting, that a recording cannot lie. But it can, and always could. Today, we are used to editing software (7) ________ us to rework our audio files and it is a (8) ________ that broadcasting ever had a true age of innocence. From the moment microphones began capturing reality, that reality was being altered.