Lewis Black Demands CNN Banner Disappear During Interview

[AtomicKitten]

CNN: Lewis Black demands CNN banner disappear
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/CNN_Lewis_Black_demands_CNN_banner_0712.html

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday July 12, 2006

During an interview on CNN, comedian Lewis Black complained about CNN's overuse of banners and tickers. All of the 24 hour news networks use similar banners and news tickers which prevents the viewer from seeing the about 1/4 of the primary video.

Interrupting his interview with CNN's Miles O'Brien and looking toward backstage, Black demanded, "You guys -- and let me just say this to CNN -- you guys have got have got to start take the thing off the bottom of the page. Take the words off the bottom of the screen! There are people talking here."

CNN promptly removed the banner and the ticker from the screen for the remainder of Black's interview.

View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZJ1TvBqLE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erawstory%2Ecom%2Fnews%2F2006%2FCNN%5FLewis%5FBlack%5Fdemands%5FCNN%5Fbanner%5F0712%2Ehtml

[Master Mahon]

1. 'Back in Black'

you the man!! :+

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. That's great!

I hate all the screen real estate taken up with non-relevant shit.

And I especially hate the newscrawlers, because invariably I catch only the last half of something that's scrolling and it's maddening and irritating.

[GodlessBiker]

3. I admit it. I'm out of touch. I don't know who Lewis Black is.

[AtomicKitten]

5. He appears frequently on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

in a segment called "Back in Black."

I saw him live at the Fillmore here in SF last year. He was fabulous.

[arcane1]

16. Yay, another fellow San Franciscan!

:yourock:

I missed his live show, sadly :evilfrown:

[AtomicKitten]

18. great place to live .... n/t

[arcane1]

THE place to live!!!

if anything ever drives me from the Bay Area, it will be something that drives me out of the entire country :)

[Initech]

6. He's a very angry, left-wing comedian.

Which makes him good in my book! He's famous for his angry Daily Show "Back In Black" segment, and some very creative uses of the word "fuck".

I suggest picking up his most recent disc called "The Carnegie Hall Performance" to get a good idea of what his comedy is like.

[saracat]

4. Actually, the ticker is usually the only "real" news! The talking

heads are the ones babbling nonsense!

[IndyOp]

8. Then they ought to get rid of the talking heads and just let people

read the news. That sort of presentation of information is the ultimate in info-tainment overload.

:(

[Uncle Joe]

10. I agree IndyOp,

reading the ticker, I end up missing too much of the interview, if I want to read, I'll buy the paper.

K & R

[gratuitous]

17. Just let people read the news

In a nice, easily scanned format maybe. And a TV screen is too ethereal; it should be printed out on paper, particularly for those of us with macular degeneration who can't see images on a CRT. And come out with a new one every day. It could still be supported by ads, I suppose, but those would have to be printed, too.

:think:

I just had a great idea! I'll call it a "paper of news"!

[IndyOp]

25. A 'newspaper'? What a novel idea! I actually prefer

the moving text though. Movement 'grabs' attention and I am just a tad ADD so the moving text keeps my focus more than text on a page. My ideal would be scrolling text that I can control - using my mouse, perhaps?

I don't subscribe to the newspaper because I hate to have the trees killed when I know I won't read much of it. I also avoid newspapers because I prefer the alternative news I can read online.

[IndyOp]

7. Dayum! Good job! It became almost bearable to watch when the

ticker was turned off. I still feel nauseated by the constantly moving words and images on the screen behind their heads. The combination of the two: :puke:

I gave up TV about 5 years ago - and I cannot tolerate looking at most shows now. The barrage of information is just sickening.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Initech]

9. Lewis Black rules!

[Sequoia]

11. Your purple mouse is so cute.

[AtomicKitten]

14. I thank you, he thanks you.

:)

[Rose Siding]

12. Best interview O'Brien's done in a while, but

was that the most creative "hook" he could come up with? -"He's here to sell a book"? Tactful, Miles.

[Ian David]

13. I would be likely to do anything Lewis Black said if he yelled at me...

Well, almost anything.

[Fridays Child]

15. What he said! I hate that f'ing crawl. nt

[Dr Fate]

19. Another comedian saying what Democrats are too frightened to say.

When are we going to see elected Democrats challenge the media to their faces like comedians do?

[cboy4]

20. That was hilarious. Thanks for posting!

:)

[JNelson6563]

21. haha Rock on dude!

:toast:

[grannylib]

22. Way to go! I HATE those things. And the little pop-up ads for other shows

that are always coming on , just about every channel these days...

I HATE them. Particularly when you are watching something with subtitles, half the time the damn pop-up ads cover them up. Pisses me off.
And I also hate the sound effects; Fox (naturally) is about the worst offender. Sports in particular; they have a little graphic thing with the most annoying sounds attached to it...

[Imalittleteapot]

23. Which network started that irritating ticker garbage? I hate it!

Why am I thinking it was FOX?

Lewis Black is my hero today. :applause:

[AtomicKitten]

24. Jon Stewart has done some hilarious skewering of the practice. n/t

[YankeyMCC]

26. Nice job Mr Black!

[texasleo]

27. Amen, brother

[AtomicKitten]

28. bump for Lewis Black