Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wounded Tiger Hiden Dragon
Anyone who is a regular follower of my blog (follower in the sense of paying attention like Aaron Morey, not follower in the sense of bowing down and worshiping as in the case of President Obama {sorry I had to piss of Alex somehow}). Technically I was still in the middle of a sentence but it got too complicated so lets take it from the top.
If you've read me before you've noticed that one of my favorite past times is pointing out some of the absurdities that come alone with our modern mainstream media. Now this is not a blog about liberal or conservative bias. No this is about just how many stupid things they can do in the course of a newscycle. And since Wolf Blitzer invented the 24 hour newscylce, they can do a lot of stupid stuff.
One of the things that I find myself laughing at the most as well as getting pissed off at is all the things they attempt to put on their screen on top of their actual programing news. You have the telecast your watching. Below that you have a "ticker" updating you on some headlines. Usually just giving you tidbits that you can brag about to your friends. Unless one of your friends pursues a higher level of journalism than CNN or Fox or MSNBC does and you know actually asks you a follow up question. You have NO more information. All you saw was a 15 word headline. And that's probably all CNN knows too.
So you have the telecast and a ticker nice right? Well thats not all. Than you have the time and temp, then sometimes you have the business ticker. Then you have a picture in picture thing showing you the press conference they are going to cover next. And then there is a changing box telling you the pedigrees of the pundents you are listening too. Then that changes and tells you about the BREAKING NEWS or DEVELOPING STORIES that these pundits are currently discussing. By no means are these breaking news. And then on top of it all some networks offer an inside look at Wolf Blitzer's beard! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
American Philosopher actually called CNN out on this thing.
Anyways my biggest complaint about this crawler is how incredibly vague it can be. And if they don't go out of their way to explain it, you might have not any idea what they are talking about.
Today I was watching CNN Newsroom and on the bottom of the screen read
UPDATE: Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge.
Go head, right now and write down what you think that is talking about.
I honestly had NO IDEA!! I am a pretty bright guy, I mean I watch CNN, I should be able to at least translate there language right?
My first thought was Dick Cheney shot another tiger, oh way that was Putin. But then I thought, is this referring to a BCS bowl rankings challenge? Is this wounded tiger not getting the respect from the AP because it's strength of schedule rating wasn't high enough?
Why would a tiger be in a college football game? And who wounded it?
So then I decided it was time to google the phrase and see what happened. While I was waiting for my computer to boot up, (20 hours or so). I thought to myself, oh maybe its a race horse.
Finally I googled the phrase and got a CNN website no doubt. Fortunately they had taken time to post an entire story.
Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge
Look at your piece of paper again. How many of you ACTUALLY thought, Oh I bet thats about Tiger Woods!
That is just a terrible use of language if you ask me. First of all Tiger Woods wasn't wounded, he was injured. I am not sure if there is a definitive difference, but I think the connotations are slightly different in the United States.
Second of all the man's name is Tiger, so let's use the language in a way that doesn't make it sound like he was an animal that was shot by a Russian dictator. Seriously.
Yes this was a long one, but I hope you enjoyed it.
Ladies and gentlemen take my advice, if your going to use parenthesis as often as I tend to, you should probably figure out how to do it properly. By no means is my blog a proper template for correct gramatical format. If your looking to me for that, then perhaps you need a stimulas package too. THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!
If you've read me before you've noticed that one of my favorite past times is pointing out some of the absurdities that come alone with our modern mainstream media. Now this is not a blog about liberal or conservative bias. No this is about just how many stupid things they can do in the course of a newscycle. And since Wolf Blitzer invented the 24 hour newscylce, they can do a lot of stupid stuff.
One of the things that I find myself laughing at the most as well as getting pissed off at is all the things they attempt to put on their screen on top of their actual programing news. You have the telecast your watching. Below that you have a "ticker" updating you on some headlines. Usually just giving you tidbits that you can brag about to your friends. Unless one of your friends pursues a higher level of journalism than CNN or Fox or MSNBC does and you know actually asks you a follow up question. You have NO more information. All you saw was a 15 word headline. And that's probably all CNN knows too.
So you have the telecast and a ticker nice right? Well thats not all. Than you have the time and temp, then sometimes you have the business ticker. Then you have a picture in picture thing showing you the press conference they are going to cover next. And then there is a changing box telling you the pedigrees of the pundents you are listening too. Then that changes and tells you about the BREAKING NEWS or DEVELOPING STORIES that these pundits are currently discussing. By no means are these breaking news. And then on top of it all some networks offer an inside look at Wolf Blitzer's beard! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
American Philosopher actually called CNN out on this thing.
Anyways my biggest complaint about this crawler is how incredibly vague it can be. And if they don't go out of their way to explain it, you might have not any idea what they are talking about.
Today I was watching CNN Newsroom and on the bottom of the screen read
UPDATE: Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge.
Go head, right now and write down what you think that is talking about.
I honestly had NO IDEA!! I am a pretty bright guy, I mean I watch CNN, I should be able to at least translate there language right?
My first thought was Dick Cheney shot another tiger, oh way that was Putin. But then I thought, is this referring to a BCS bowl rankings challenge? Is this wounded tiger not getting the respect from the AP because it's strength of schedule rating wasn't high enough?
Why would a tiger be in a college football game? And who wounded it?
So then I decided it was time to google the phrase and see what happened. While I was waiting for my computer to boot up, (20 hours or so). I thought to myself, oh maybe its a race horse.
Finally I googled the phrase and got a CNN website no doubt. Fortunately they had taken time to post an entire story.
Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge
Look at your piece of paper again. How many of you ACTUALLY thought, Oh I bet thats about Tiger Woods!
That is just a terrible use of language if you ask me. First of all Tiger Woods wasn't wounded, he was injured. I am not sure if there is a definitive difference, but I think the connotations are slightly different in the United States.
Second of all the man's name is Tiger, so let's use the language in a way that doesn't make it sound like he was an animal that was shot by a Russian dictator. Seriously.
Yes this was a long one, but I hope you enjoyed it.
Ladies and gentlemen take my advice, if your going to use parenthesis as often as I tend to, you should probably figure out how to do it properly. By no means is my blog a proper template for correct gramatical format. If your looking to me for that, then perhaps you need a stimulas package too. THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!
# posted by The REAL Tommy @ 10:23 AM 
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Numerous comments:
1) I like how CNN took the crawl down as soon as Lewis Black started yelling about it.
Dear CNN Producer,
Your guests can't see that. Lewis Black might yell, but he won't hurt you.
Sincerely, Concerned View
PS, If the reason you took it down was because you just then realize how stupid it was, why did you put it back up?
2) Tiger isn't his real name, his real name is "Eldrick." I'm not kidding, that's way to silly for me to have just made up by myself.
3) There is a programming language called Lisp that uses tons of nested parentheses. A program to do a short mathematical equation would look something like this:
(* 4 (+ 2 (/ 15 3) (8 - (+ 1 3))))
For those of you playing along at home, the answer is 44.
Anyway, my point is Lisp taught me that it's ok to nest parentheses as deep as you want.
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1) I like how CNN took the crawl down as soon as Lewis Black started yelling about it.
Dear CNN Producer,
Your guests can't see that. Lewis Black might yell, but he won't hurt you.
Sincerely, Concerned View
PS, If the reason you took it down was because you just then realize how stupid it was, why did you put it back up?
2) Tiger isn't his real name, his real name is "Eldrick." I'm not kidding, that's way to silly for me to have just made up by myself.
3) There is a programming language called Lisp that uses tons of nested parentheses. A program to do a short mathematical equation would look something like this:
(* 4 (+ 2 (/ 15 3) (8 - (+ 1 3))))
For those of you playing along at home, the answer is 44.
Anyway, my point is Lisp taught me that it's ok to nest parentheses as deep as you want.
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