Minor Rant To The Cable News Networks, From a Graphics Person...

[Placebo]

MSNBC/CNN/FAUX NEWS....UPDATE YOUR SCREEN GRAPHICS AND SETS ALREADY!!! THIS ISN'T 1995!!!

The backgrounds, sets, and screen graphics for ALL of MSNBC's programming is painfully old-fashioned. Boring solid colour red faaaaading. Golden letters. Give me a break. There's nothing very appealing about it. And it's strange that NBC's flagship cable news network would have such poor graphics and sets while NBC has pretty good ones.

Oh, and CNN is no better. They were getting better, before one day I flipped them on and their info bar shrunk to like 1/3 the size of the old one, they switched to some standard BORING type-face for all their programs, and all their cool graphics were gone, replaced with boring solid color lines. Liiiiiiiiiiiiiines.

I need not comment on Faux News and their outrageously large screen graphics that take up half the screen with their horrible choices of font and gaudy colours.

End rant.

[SoCalDem]

1. I'm old-school.. I prefer BBC.. a person and a desk

The graphics and sound effects turn me OFF..Sometimes I just set my tv to mute and read it from the captions:)

[charlie]

2. Seen ABC New's redesign?

Looks good, pretty understated compared to their garish, overstuffed brethren:

http://abcnews.go.com/