Fuck you, ABC. Fuck you straight to fucking hell!

The BBQ Pit
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Clearly you don’t live in Cincinnati.

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I do hearby nominate PunditLisa for the next open spot on “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?”

ROTFLMAO

[sub]Of course, this wouldn’t be nearly as funny if I weren’t from Ohio.[/sub]

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Actually, that’s was CBS. The flack came because this was during a CBS News program. CBS was superimposing their logo over NBC’s peacock on that giant TV screen in Times Square. I remember the president of CBS News, when defending the move, said if there was a murderer who uses the NBC logo to kill people, CBS would go ahead and show that!

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SterlingNorth wrote : I remember the president of CBS News, when defending the move, said if there was a murderer who uses the NBC logo to kill people, CBS would go ahead and show that!

What?! I’m confused. Can you explain this in a bit more detail?

(Sounds like a crazy argument.)

Thanks.

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Well dietrologia, I’ll begin with the quote from Les Moonves

and Andy Heyward

News Years Eve 1999, Dan Rather was reporting from the festivities at Times Square, New York. He was standing on a balcony, which offered a grand view of the city and the festivities. It was a great spot to catch everything that happens when the new millennium (don’t start with me) begins. However Dan was also standing in front of the giant Jumbotron, which has a large NBC peacock logo underneath. The wizzes at CBS Television didn’t want to move Dan Rather, nor provide “free air” for their arch nemesis NBC. So they used that digital technology that places virtual ads in sporting events and placed a fake CBS billboard where the Jumbotron should have been.

There was an immediate outcry in the journalistic communities over this.

However, before you connect this, and the act of selling ads using the fifty yard line, there is a subtle difference. In the news business, much is made of credibility and honesty. You shouldn’t change the story. In a news live shot, what you see should actually be what is or was happening.

Here are some links on what happened and some commentary, too:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth775.htm
http://www.tvnewsweb.com/newstalk/2000/01/14newyork.shtml
http://www.globalethics.org/members/commentary1-17-00.html
http://www.poynter.org/offthenews/

{Note: coding fixed, as requested. Lynn}

[Edited by Lynn Bodoni on 01-06-2001 at 04:29 AM]