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Saturday, February 11, 2006

WOO ! SWISH ! SNIPE !

As if it weren't bad enough that we have all these lower left snipes telling us what show we're watching and what's coming up next, at least one cable network has taken the practice to a new low with two innovations. SOAPNet's snipes now make noise coming on and going off, distracting you from the show's dialog. Not only that, but many of the snipes are there to tell you what's coming up in the plot (in the current act.) Guess they're trying to keep veiwers with shorter attention spans glued to plots that move at glacial speeds.

Posted by Techmanager at 1:02 PM
Edited on: Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:17 PM
Categories: Off-Topic

Monday, February 06, 2006

Frank, Cronkite and Woodruff

The passing of former NBC News president Reuven Frank got me thinking today. In the late 1960's, the CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam to see the war firsthand. Luckily he was not injured and the anchor, who up until then was thought to be a hawk, returned to his broadcast " with a different perspective."

One wonders what stories ABC's Bob Woodruff will tell of the war in Iraq when he returns to the broadcast he shares with Ms. Vargas. He so desperately wanted to see the war as the Iraqi soldiers see it.

Posted by Techmanager at 9:12 PM
Categories: State of the News