January 26, 2008
The Best IT Department on Television
Our Nora McAlvanah's take on CNN's election-night coverage: "As always, CNN’s election reporting is an impressive technical achievement full of virtual pie charts and billboard-sized electronic screens. Wolf, of course, is the big car chase, the centerpiece, the consigliore--- the little man standing behind the big, room-length TV wall. One platform down, surrounded by 4 giant screens, Bill Schneider and Soledad O'Brien offer a more stylized and statistics driven analysis. They come across like ones of those unconventional Oscar presenter pairings.
Over in the bottom rungs of CNN’s election center, Anderson Cooper is running what looks to be an IT training class for reporters. For all intents and purposes, John King is like the nerdy kid sitting in the front row, answering all the questions and occasionally standing up and drawing on an interactive blackboard. Sitting in the back row, Jeffrey Toobin and Carl Berstein seem either overwhelmed by all the visual imagery, consumed with the real-time info they’re getting on their personal PC, or involved in a lengthy game of solitaire.
Posted at 10:05 PM
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