That was a great one, I can't find the one I am thinking of.

[quote="Bill D"]You haven't worked in cable news? I have seen far worse on a banner, and even put up twice in one instance. Although that is a good one :)[/quote] This one always makes me chuckle. [img]http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/original/norahwh-thumb.jpg[/img]

[quote="sahonen"][quote="Bill D"]You haven't worked in cable news? I have seen far worse on a banner, and even put up twice in one instance.[/quote] You mean like [url=http://shogun.shafted.com.au/temp/cnnsucks.jpg]this[/url]?[/quote] exactly. The one I am talking about is a little more vulgar

Speed of light, speed of Sound. What's the difference? To listen to some producers, they believe the average viewer is a moron and doesn't see this stuff anyway. Good producers catch this stuff, because they proof read it! We had an incident here in DFW. Local affiliate is reporting on the Alaskan Airlines crash off the coast of California several years back. Script probably asked for an over the shoulder AA graphic. Because American is located in Ft. Worth, an American logo with the big double A's came up over the anchor's shoulder. I caught it and showed my wife. My comment was that somebody's head was gonna roll tomorrow. I was wrong. The anchor was back in about 5 minutes apologizing and looked pretty sick while he was reading the apology. American is a huge advertiser on this station, which btw is also located in Ft. Worth. I bet the producer packed their things that night. Journalism used to be a highly respected business because the organizations that hired journalists were serious about their product. Most of them aren't serious anymore. Automation is not the problem, it is merely a response to the problem. Stations want to spend less money on manpower and over work their staff, so egregious errors like fonting the weatherman incorrectly take place. If I was the station manager, I would be wining and dining and apologizing to this weatherman to try and keep from getting sued. Wow, that felt good! I'm getting down off my soap box now. Happy punching! Scott

^^ lol

[quote="Bill D"]You haven't worked in cable news? I have seen far worse on a banner, and even put up twice in one instance.[/quote] You mean like [url=http://shogun.shafted.com.au/temp/cnnsucks.jpg]this[/url]?

[quote="sahonen"]My initial reaction was automation because I could not imagine what could cause a staffed control room to miss the fact that they were IDing their weather anchor as a child molester for a full 10 seconds. I couldn't believe how long the graphic stayed up. Any explanation involving a director and/or Chyron op would have to imply that someone was being *grossly* incompetent. The most reasonable explanation I can come up with is the director being overworked and having to TD, advance his own chyron, etc. That still doesn't explain why he's not looking at his program monitor for that long.[/quote] You haven't worked in cable news? I have seen far worse on a banner, and even put up twice in one instance. Although that is a good one :)

My initial reaction was automation because I could not imagine what could cause a staffed control room to miss the fact that they were IDing their weather anchor as a child molester for a full 10 seconds. I couldn't believe how long the graphic stayed up. Any explanation involving a director and/or Chyron op would have to imply that someone was being *grossly* incompetent. The most reasonable explanation I can come up with is the director being overworked and having to TD, advance his own chyron, etc. That still doesn't explain why he's not looking at his program monitor for that long.

Eric, found this on their site: "Applicants must be able to write for tv, shoot and edit on linear and nonlinear systems." That is part of a job description for an "Anchor/Reporter" position. Sounds like the reporters are one man bands andthat leads me to think it may be an automated facility.

I like to bash automation as much as the next guy, but it seems, in the absence of any evidence that the station even uses automation, that this was a simple chyron op or director error. Or both. Plus, it's at least two years old, and who knows how much older for sure..... It [b]is[/b] pretty damn funny either way, which is why it's getting tens of thousands of hits during its recent revival on youtube.

Wow. Just hit the spacebar, right? ;-)