CNN covers Cheney with mysterious 'X'

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Don't Tread On Me said:
Organized, mass corporate media is censored and controlled by the government. They don't write the articles, but they set the agenda.
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I believe the opposite is true. The press controls what is politically correct, even body language and whether a politician must be a performer, form over substance. By responding critically to all initiatives they control the agenda. They also control elections.

If blogs are going to mean anything, they won't be an extension of the same biased spin effort. Blessings will be counted and people will be complimented when saying or doing something right. Nothing but criticism is really the same thing as "good news is no news". The press also appeals to the mean side of people's nature. People can be encouraged to behave well or poorly, what ever they believe is acceptable and de rigeur. Unfair and hateful bashing is all the rage.

More than ever the press has made it their business to make news as much as report it. I think that is partly a result of 24/7 cable news networks who have to fill time. And that is an extension of the advent of television. What it amounts to is brainwashing the public or suggesting what they should care about, when they should respond, and what they should think.

The very reason there are conservative news outlets is to counteract the effects of liberal news outlets. Everyone wants to get their message out. It is much more than reporting facts. The pictures aren't necessarily factual either. They are selected and edited to create a specific impression.
 
It was just a placeholder. Drudge, like most untrained, uninformed, unchecked blog-drool pundits of all sides, has about as much credibility as a mumbling bearded guy with a shopping-cart full of doll heads who lives under a bridge.


From CNN: "A portion of the switcher experienced a momentary glitch. The "X," was in fact a place-marker for the CNN logo, which was being cued for transition. It was for operator use, and never meant to go on air."

I use a lot a lot of the same software they do. And yeah, it happens! An unrendered logo will be replaced by whatever placeholder symbol your software uses for that. In this case, the 'X'.
 
longeyes said:
I am no innocent to video. I don't believe it was an "accident." This was bigtime TV, not Podunk or Final Cut Pro.
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Final Cut Pro is used by a hell of a lot of television editors and movie editors. Several movies have done postproduction entirely on it, on multi-rack G5 Xserves with an insane amount of drive space in RAID arrays. It now handles 1080i high-def, even. It IS what pros use.

longeyes said:
I think we have a lot of people in this country, unfortunately in responsible places, who have never grown beyond adolescence.
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On that point, though, I'll just remind of one incident of that. "Bring it on."
 
Manedwolf said:
Drudge, like most untrained, uninformed, unchecked blog-drool pundits of all sides, has about as much credibility as a mumbling bearded guy with a shopping-cart full of doll heads who lives under a bridge.
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He got slick Willie's butt in a wringer though. I went over to CNN today to see if they had the cajones to respond. Didn't find anything on that, but found a poll on the unsubstantiated claim that Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera. Sheeple believing it... If Bush was going to bomb anything, I would suggest he start with the New York Times, and then work his way down the list to the Communist News Network...
 
Even if it was an accident initially, their technicians should have cought it and corrected it pretty quick. The fact that the flashing X persisted throughout the entire speech tells me that the boys at CNN wanted it to stay there.
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Have you ever worked in a television production control room during a live broadcast that's going to Hell in a handbasket?
 
Final Cut Pro is used by a hell of a lot of television editors and movie editors. Several movies have done postproduction entirely on it, on multi-rack G5 Xserves with an insane amount of drive space in RAID arrays. It now handles 1080i high-def, even. It IS what pros use.
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I know, I know, I use it myself sometimes. Didn't mean to disparage FCP. I've favored the Avid Adrenaline system of late.

All that aside, I don't believe it was an innocent mistake, sorry. Way too "coincidental."
 
Originally Posted by longeyes
I think we have a lot of people in this country, unfortunately in responsible places, who have never grown beyond adolescence.


On that point, though, I'll just remind of one incident of that. "Bring it on."
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I'll tell you what's adolescent to the core: radical, extremist Islam. This is no more than a wet dream of 14-year-old boys. I'll forgive Bush a moment of Texan macho swaggering. He had reason to be riled.
 
Y'now I've often thought that the White House should lock out these left wing newsies. Just pick one (otherwise you couldn't have a press conference). CNN is small potatos.. LOCK OUT the Associated Press or the New York Times. Anyone who gives them information in the slimeballs is immediately fired, and, depending on the information, file federal charges against them...
 
I think you'd need to be very careful before you assume that the recording is genuine. Just a hunch, but the people behind it seem to be self-publicists of a high order. Doesn't make them liars, but like I said, I'd be very careful.
 
I think it is a credit to the press secretary, The White House, and this country that reporters known to be hostile to the administration or just simply sharks are called upon in press conferences, let alone welcome to be there. That said, they just take up time, because they won't get a straight answer nor will their questions be dignified by the civil response. I wish CNN representatives luck on being productive at future press conferences.
 
I suggest a deal: We accept it was a legitimate mistake on the day that the Democrats accept that "rats" IS going to show up for a moment on the screen if you pan "Democrats" across it. :neener: Deal?
 
If I were Cheney...

...I'd show up at the next speech/news conference wearing an "X" on my face.

Hey. Here's a money making idea. How about making a Halloween type mask with just a big "X" on it. Send me my finder's fee for this idea.

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Looks like the camera operator's crosshairs--used so that the operator can stay on target. Somebody obviously screwed up, but it's not nearly as funny as how the GW team placed the Democratic mayor of Anchorage DIRECTLY behind GW when he gave his schpeel at the base here. Bush's head perfectly blocked out the smirks of Begich.
 
In fairness, FOX had photoshopped the photo of Kerry and Bush shaking hands at the start of the debates. They made Bush a lot taller. They closed the gap in their height difference quite a bit.
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So what you are saying is that FOX tried to make the photo less biased.
 
nfl1990 said:
So what you are saying is that FOX tried to make the photo less biased.
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Fox is as "Fair and Balanced" as CNN. They both have an agenda, and people tend to listen to the news that suits them.
Thank God for the 'net...
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