On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I loathe all that rubbish on screen too, but isn't the reason they do it > because the news channels play in mute form in lots of public spaces - > lobbies, airports, and bars etc. OK - maybe not too many bars. > > That doesn't excuse continuing to use scrolling rather than just paging > through the text, but that's their reasoning. I guess that somehow > psychologically "scrolling" = "urgently important." > Before CNN moved to an ove reliance on a ticker some years ago, it seemed that at my gym it worked well to turn on the closed captioning. I would like to see a study of what percentage of the bottom screen ticker in a typical week on CNN is devoted to summarizing the bullet points of the top 3 stories of the hour, vs providing either needless filler information, or infotainment that could be saved for the appropriate pop culture segment without anyone losing important news. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
