Okay, What is up with CNN's 6 images on the screen?

[justiceischeap]

Did they get a new toy or something? Like I want to see a graphic, the Supreme Court and then Lindsay Graham's head, plus the press.

[KingFlorez]

1. That's the Situation Room

On this show the moniter all the goings on of the day on multi screens

[Flubadubya]

2. It's Wolfie "Power Ranger" Blitzer's new command & control center...

He has cleverly dubbed it "The Situation Room". Bwahahaha!!! :rofl:

[LSparkle]

3. All the better to hypnotize you into submission

Work, sleep, consume ... repeat.

[Atman]

4. Jumbotron Jr.

I was noticing that yesterday. Some designer's bad idea run amok. I don't think it will last long. CNN changes their graphics faster than BushCo changes its stories.

[TomInTib]

5. I am evolving "FlyEyes" so I can watch this.

[justiceischeap]

6. HA! (eom)

[marions ghost]

13. LOL...Fly eyes

:eyes: :crazy: :eyes:
:crazy: :eyes: :crazy:

It's pretty scary in The Situation Room--situations all over the place.

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Interesting ergonomics experiment/model

Way back, many years ago, as technology evolved for

1) "Picture in picture" tv displays,
2) Flat Panel Instrumentation in cars and aircraft
3) Graphical user interfaces (Windows, Mac)

ergonomics engineers and psychologists have been studying the question of "When Does The User/Viewer Have Information Overload?"

The latest form of torture - ear phones with two audio streams - one in each earphone -- and by somehow determining which one has "captured your attention" -- that one gets louder.

For a "casual" tv viewer -- I think 6 pictures is information overload.

[justiceischeap]

8. Particulary when 4 of the images aren't even informational. n/t

[Politicub]

9. I kind of like the six images

MTV generation, short attention span and all that.

[TahitiNut]

10. Newsgalomania.

Just because they can. :shrug: (Besides, they can't curl their paws and get a grip.) :evilgrin:

[incapsulated]

11. It allows them to sneak in them there subliminalistic messages...

Cause nobody can watch all those screens at once.

Verrrry clever.....

[Fuzz]

12. 6 images, Wolf talking, scroll on the bottom, stock market watch

on the bottom right and the scary breaking news music. So much fun.

Now we just need the technology to smell the cigarettes and coffee on Jack Cafferty's breath and a boxing glove to come out of the screen to punch us in the face to alert us to the latest terror scare and we're all set!

[justiceischeap]

15. Reminds me of a SNL sketch

Where they had reporters talking and they kept throwing things up on the screen. By the end of the skit, you couldn't see the talking head anymore.

[Fuzz]

19. heh, ya, I remember that

"And here is a picture of the terminator for no apparent reason."

:)

[justiceischeap]

20. Sometimes SNL gets it absolutely right! (eom)

[LTR]

18. Wasn't there an SNL bit about this?

A newscast with tons of crap scrolling on the bottom of the screen and only a small horizontal picture of the barely visible news anchors?

Or did I imagine this? If so, I want my royalty payment if they decide to use it.

[Canuckistanian]

14. It's the Sensorium, soon in Smellovision(tm)

Marshall McLuhan predicted it.

[mcar]

16. Talk about information overload

I don't have cable at home, so I rarely watch CNN. I was at the dentist today and the Roberts hearings were, of course, on.

Between the six screen screen, the bottom graphic that changes every 1/2 minute with stupid information (Roberts: 50 years old) and the running trailer at the bottom, I felt like I was watching one of my son's video games.

And I get nauseous after watching one of them for a while. :puke:

[marions ghost]

17. It's a new toy....as if TV weren't visually disturbing enough...

Watching The Situation Room I feel like my niece did when she was about 3 or so and somebody gave her this weird rag doll that had 6 faces all stuck together at the neck, so they flapped up and down like a stack of pancakes. Each flap had a completely different face. My niece immediately screamed "Too Many Faces!!" and never touched the doll again. She was too young for the concept of multiple personalities.

I'm not opposed to complex visual experiences but if I want to see this I want it to be in an abstract situation like watching multi-media performance art where I can follow whatever random image I like. Too many moving images are annoying when I'm trying to follow what Wolfie and the guests are saying, unless the picture relates to that. The kalidoscopic effect does not help concentration, especially for the easily distractable. Maybe one day we can choose our own backgrounds on TV.

[LeftyMom]

21. I can't even stand the headline crawl on the bottom of the screen

and the annowing little channel logo in the bottom corner. Sounds like I'd claw my eyes out if I ever saw this situation room thing.

Of course, I watched about five minutes of CNN in the middle of the night when the hurricane was battering the shore and I swear I could feel my brain dribbling out my ear. Even without the brady-bunch screen thing modern television news is rather disturbing.

[justiceischeap]

22. It's funny I hate the branding and scroller as well but...

I find myself frustrated when I land on a channel that doesn't have the branding because then I don't know what channel I'm on... It's a catch-22 I 'spose.

[LeftyMom]

23. I just hit the info button

and see wht channel I'm on, the time, what the show is and a synopsis. Then, when I'm done, I push a button again and it all gets out of the way so I can watch.

I :loveya: tivo.