Friday, November 07, 2008

CNN: Get a dictionary

CNN’s little digital imaging trick they premiered on election night to have far-flung correspondents seem to appear in the studio a la Princess Leia has been dubbed by CNN as a “hologram”.  Sorry, CNN, it’s not.  It was a combination of green screen technology and a circle of cameras with lots of computer control.  If it had been a hologram, Wolf Blitzer would have been able to see the correspondents standing in front of him.  

I appreciate you guys pushing the envelope, and it was certainly cool.  But when you call it something it isn’t, it undermines your overall credibility as a news source.  I would think that’s Journalism 101.  Have the Bush years brought you so low?

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