As long as I’m on the subject of CNN, here’s another bit to add. If you cover news 24 hours a day, don’t have crawl text that reads:
…TWO MORE POSTAL WORKERS EXPOSED TO ANTHRAX…
Two more than what? Two more since when? I already knew about X cases…is this “two more” included in X or are we now at X+2?
Here’s what I propose…instead of having a graphic of the weather in Texas, which people outside of Texas don’t care about and people in Texas aleady know, have an ANTHRAX METER keeping track of the number of cases. At a glance I know where we’re at, regarding Anthrax.
Alternatively, here’s a suggestion from my friend Tangential, in a chat room, which is related to the playstation game Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo:
[Tangential] I think that they should have a picture of a taliban guy and an american
[Tangential] And above them you have like an HP meter.
[Tangential] To show you how much life is left in the taliban and how many cases of anthrax.
[Tangential] And they should periodically taunt one another like in Super blah blah 2 turbo .
[legomancer] in Japanese!
[legomancer] and, like, if a bunch of anthrax cases show up at once, a robot drops on the american guy’s head
[Tangential] That’s more information at a glance! Dense data content