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Call 'em like you see 'em

January 5, 2012

Anderson Cooper, on air, referring to CNN's nonsensical "Social Media Screen": The social media screen, again with the social media screen. My Lord. This is the third hit, I still don't understand what the hell this thing shows! It's a shame that it takes a 3am broadcast for someone to let the emperor know his clothes are missing. [...]

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Election night technology, redux

November 3, 2010

Two years ago, I wrote about how impressed I was by CNN's use of technology in their election night broadcast. They employed iPhone-inspired multitouch screens to access and browse data visually (the iPad, sadly, was but a dream at that point). The screens could display charts, sorted data, maps, results... anything the anchors required. One [...]

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CNN < supermarket tabloid

July 17, 2009

I echo John Gruber in my extreme disappointment that as we approach the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, CNN.com's headline story is tabloid fare on people convinced it was a hoax. I generally find CNN's journalistic standards to be barely above those of their "iReporters," but the decision to run this piece is [...]

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At this time, CNN is projecting...

March 4, 2008

I'm generally not a fan of CNN -- I don't like their gimme interviews, I can't stand their tabloid website, I don't want to be an "I-Reporter." -- but while I've been enjoying MSNBC's intelligent journalism, CNN went out and picked up some giant touchscreens. Eye candy? Sure, but incredibly cool. Oh, and it actually [...]

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