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Yomiuri: Tepco has ‘heavily altered’ video footage — Expert suspects images have been altered more than necessary http://enenews.com/yomiuri-tepco-has-heavily-altered-video-footage-expert-suspects-images-have-been-altered-more-than-necessary  August 7th, 2012  By ENENews

Title: TEPCO video heavily altered / Alternation shows utility’s reluctance to make information available 
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: Aug. 8, 2012

The recently disclosed video of Tokyo Electric Power Co. teleconferences that took place just after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been significantly altered, with many images blurred and audio heavily obscured. […]

TEPCO said it edited audio, such as people’s speech and other sounds, 1,665 times in the video, and blurred images another 29 times.

“It’s to protect the privacy of individual employees and we aren’t intentionally (withholding information),” a TEPCO official explained.

However, even then TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu has been blurred in parts of the video, making his face unrecognizable. Even when his face is visible, his expressions are at times unreadable.

Some audio sections have also been bleeped out multiple times, or simply cut mid-speech.

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However, a technical staffer at a video imaging company suspects the images have been altered more than necessary.

For instance, at one point, then General Manager Masao Yoshida at the No. 1 plant makes an X with both hands in reference to a sea water injection into the No. 1 reactor.

“When he makes the X, only his hands have been blurred out,” the staffer said.