A bit off topic, but besides that mother of one or the Orlando shooting victims speaking, i noticed that Bernie moved to suspend the rules to end the roll call.
On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 11:53:16 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > I have been thinking about the sound we get on the television coverage of > conventions, both for the RNC and DNC. I think maybe somebody here (or was > it somewhere else?) mentioned the idea of "sweetening" the sound at things > like this, with added applause or laughter. I would not approve of that of > course - but I would like to see better control of the mix of sound from > the platform vs sound from the floor. Sometimes you can not really hear > what the speaker is saying very well, not so much because of demonstrations > from the floor, but just ambient noise and kind of hall echo effects. Other > times what the speaker is saying seems to fall flat because you can not > hear any real response from the hall, even though you know there is a > response. During the RNC I had a friend in the hall who posted some short > video from the floor during one of the speakers and you could hear a very > enthusiastic audience response, but I had watched that same speech on > television, and it seemed like the speaker was getting crickets. > > I am wondering if we don't see more aggressive mixing of the sound because > for some reason it is not technically possible, or if it would open the > networks up to charges of editorial manipulation - making Bernie sound like > he got a big response, while minimizing the response to HIllary? I do want > to hear it when the crowd makes important demonstrations (like with Panetta > last night) but most of the time, I would like the crowd noise turned down > while the speaker is talking, and turned up during pauses to hear the > response. > > -- -- 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/d/optout.
