At 04:40 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Putting up fake newsrooms is quite another matter, though. I don't recall
seeing this static shot of the "New York Times-Washington Bureau"
newsroom. It seems like a silly thing to do, to have a photo of a newsroom
with nobody in it.
On the backdrops themselves, I'm surprised they're not using blue screen
technology. The weather reporters have it, though with a sometimes visible
"edge" (which is distracting).
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" does this all the time,
in a broad mixture of serious news coverage, comedic spoofs, and
various ranges of irony and sarcasm in between.
Usually it's when their "Senior War Correspondent" is off somewhere.
Since the War on (Some) Terrorists is the Wag the Dog War, we may soon be
seeing actual faked war footage.
You haven't been seeing it? It's right their next to the fnords, er, um,
it must be your Broadcast Flag settings keeping you from receiving that part.
