So, for a class, I had to sign up for some journalism mailing list and I fell across one titled, "Today's Word on Journalism" Now, every day during the school year, I receive an e-mail with some quotation about journalism. I kind of enjoyed today's more so than I have any other day, and since it is based on something fairly recent, thought I would post it here for you all.
"[I]t wouldn't have been television news without some bravura hype and aggressive flashiness. On CBS, Katie Couric (as calm and confident as she's been at the anchor desk) hosted a sober presentation. Every other set looked like something you'd pick up at a Circuit City in Dubai. . . . But those gizmos--merely straightforward efforts to present data engagingly--were nothing compared with an embarrassing stunt that CNN first attempted in the 7 o'clock hour. Wolf Blitzer was in his New York command center standing 10 paces away from a 3-D rendering of a reporter: 'Jessica Yellin via hologram in Chicago.' The effects were such that she was ringed in an off-purple aura from head to toe (a distance, it seemed, of about 4 feet). This was distracting, perfectly superfluous, and in no way an advance on the good old two-dimensional Yellin to whom we are accustomed. This was just the latest example of CNN's weakness for state-of-the-art technology that shows you little more than its state-of-the-artiness."
-Troy Patterson, Slate television critic, Nov. 5, 2008.
Here's the aforementioned scene:
Technology is fluid--I like the idea of the hologram. It brings yet another form of entertainment to our viewers. It's amazing how the mind works.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, even thought I posted the video, I have yet to watch it. While it is amazing how much we've advanced technology, I think a hologram, just for the purpose of using a hologram, is a little much.
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