I don't mind this, and you wouldn't even have to kill the tradition, as they could still have an envelope-either as a prop, or as is now, but authoritatively confirmed by your lectern screen. I think the envelope and card are a nice memento for winners.
Of course, as I think Jeff Goldblum says in Jurassic Park (or am I remembering what his character says in the book?) whatever can happen will eventually happen, so there is no real fool-proof system and a cocky, lazy or distracted PWh executive is as capable of keying in the wrong code as mixing up envelopes. I guess they could go full Fail Safe and require 2 hermetically sealed PWh VPs to independently key in matching codes to release the winner's name. Okay-maybe I am thinking about this too much (but a patient just cancelled) On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:30 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:24 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I did mean "dispose" in the broadest sense - some procedure which removes > it from the available pool of not-yet-announced envelopes. > > It does seem the male PWH VP is the guy who F'd up here, I think in 3 > ways: 1) Not disposing of the envelope after Stone was announced (whatever > that procedure was) 2) Giving this wrong, not-disposed envelope to Warren > Beatty & 3) not getting on stage faster to stop the wrong name from being > announced or at least shorten the period of confusion. > > The 2-card system will always have this danger. I kind of remember (but > could be constructing it) that years ago they had a problem with presenters > going out at the last minute from the other side of the stage than the one > originally planned (anyone who has ever been a stage manager for an amateur > theater production will be familiar with that nightmare), and that may why > they went to duplicate cards. I like the idea of color coding them. There > us also an article going around the FB that better graphic design would > have helped - emphasizing the name of the winner and de-emphasizing the > film. But the front line defense has to be a procedure in which the > duplicate envelope is immediately removed from availability. > > > My approach would be to kill tradition and do away with the envelopes. > Embed a tablet in the lectern which only PwC has access to. The presenters > could read the nominees and then the winner from that screen. There is no > problem of duplicate envelopes or dealing with which side the presenters > enter from. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- 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.
