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From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:45 +0000
----Original Message----- From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: more "new media": ...What You See Isn't There Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:33 AM http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cbs-digital.html On CBS News, Some of What You See Isn't There By ALEX KUCZYNSKI The New York Times If you were watching the "CBS Evening News" broadcast live from Times Square on New Year's Eve, you might have seen a billboard advertising CBS News out in the square behind Dan Rather. You might have looked at the well-placed billboard and wondered just exactly how it was that CBS was able to place its ad so fortuitously. The truth is, it didn't. The billboard and the advertisement for CBS did not exist. The image was digitally imported onto the live CBS broadcast and used to obliterate real objects, the NBC jumbotron underneath the New Year's ball and a Budweiser ad. Inserting digital images has become increasingly common in sports and entertainment programming -- usually to insert advertising and corporate logos and first-down markers in football -- but has generally been considered out of line on news shows, a type of programming in which the assumption of reality is considered sacrosanct and not informing viewers is considered a breach of journalistic guidelines. <snip> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Geoff_Goodfellow () iconia com, Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 "Success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html
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