Blogs Oct 7, 2013 at 11:50 am

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What is your complaint - the technology or the content? If you don't separate the two, you're not making sense.
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"We call these bats - big area touch screens."

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Common thought would have been small touch screen with a big monitor, but since their average viewer is over 65, I guess gigantic touch screens was an expectation.
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If you don't have time to figure out what's true fox will tell you what's true. Yup.
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Um...I have a 5 year old desktop with a 19in screen and I can display dozens of tweets at once, though honestly there's rarely any value in displaying even 1.
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Consider who it's designed to impress - the average Fox viewer is either eighty years old or a complete idiot (or both). This is just the sort of thing that impresses stupid people.
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@5 Indeed. I have a patent-pending technology that enables users to see 'no tweets'. You can be a beta tester, if you like.
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@4: MSNBC, CNN, NYT, Al Jazeera, TMZ, and every other media outlet will tell what is true as well, so then what is the poor viewer to do?
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There's another problem you didn't mention. The screens are displaying Shep Smith, which suggests that their anti-douchetrolley software is disabled.

@1, displaying tweets is the opposite of news, and serves only to further the bogus belief that getting one's dimwit opinions, or anyone's, displayed on a screen in a newsroom validates them, or you. Unless your goal is to find out what people who don't know anything think about things. There's far too much of this on the sports programs; to see it on the news is rather sad. But then, everything about Shep Smith's existence is sad.

What's also sad is that this giant piece of fancy technology displays FOUR TWEETS. That's like bragging about your scrolling billboard that displays the time and temp and inspirational message of the day. It's lame.

But then, Fox News is nothing but a deep-cover program of The Onion, right? I mean, they're even reporting on fake news stories now -- not just ordinary fake (i.e., "wrong") news stories like they always have, but stories taken from parody sites.
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@8 you are the second most tiresome person on slog, just behind Seattleblues. You are however tied with SB for least intelligent person on slog, so, uh, congratulations, I guess.
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Seems suspicious that those big ass tablets turned Shemp orange but his tweet sifting minions were unaffected. Do I smell a Liberal Conspiracy?
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Maxi Pads!
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Not impressed, at all. But then again, yes, as has been pointed out, I'm not in the Fox News demographic.

But this is so bad, so much ridiculous fluff and colors, all shiny packaging and no content, all cheap entertainment instead of news substance, that I don't think it will catch on. It's just so annoying. It's a prime example of what's wrong with television today.
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Sell those SoMedia Workbenches at bestbuy. Big hit bet.
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Could he be a bigger, smugger d-bag?
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Someone really, really wanted to try to create the bridge of JJ Abrams's USS Enterprise, and failed pretty spectacularly.
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@15, no. Shep is the smuggest. Not necessarily the worst (he's a contender, but he'll never win until Hannity has an aneurysm and dies) but the smuggest. Which is odd, because he is also the most perplexed. I seriously believe he is flabbergasted every time the lights come on in the room.
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For some reason, I now have the heavily accented voice of Anton Yelchin in my head shouting, "I ken do zhees! I KEN DO ZHEES!"
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@11

It's amazing how many otherwise intelligent people there are in the world who don't understand what stage makeup is, or what it looks like without stage lighting.
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Since Fox News is not about presenting the news but presenting rightwing spin, it doesn't matter how technologically savvy they are.
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"It takes a lot of tools."
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@10 - I missed the Slog Emmy Awards, who hosted this year?
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The only device I miss on the desk of my nightly newsperson is an ashtray.

I am, however, looking forward to massive, 55" BSODs peppering the background of their live broadcasts.
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Why no tubes? Hannity can arrogantly laugh about kids not being fed. He's really in an a'hole class with Michelle Malkin.
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@23, you know, I work on a couple of hundred Windows machines every day, and I haven't seen a BSOD in years. I think what's more likely (and funnier) is a big ol' "Updating, 3.8 MB out of 287.4 MB downloaded" window ticking away over the main screens.
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@25 - You're probably right—better yet, whatever a diligent hacker finds most hilarious.
BUT, if you miss that special shade of blue, I might recommend Adobe Premiere. It's a fantastic program that's made HUGE strides in just a few years, but... yeah... memory dumps. Ugh.
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@10, I beg to differ. I disagree with raindrop on virtually every subject on which an opinion can be formed, but he's not in the elite class of Slog a-holes. You're forgetting Supreme Ruler, Will in Seattle, Unbrainwashed/Noicons/CodyTheRodeoStar/ whateverhe'scalledtoday, Cascadian Bacon (my choice), and bunch whose names I'm forgetting.
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@27/10: Fnarf is correct. Raindrop may frequently be wrong, and some of his posts seem like they're very subtle trolls, but he comports himself with dignity, and should be treated the same. He presents himself as willing to engage, and we owe him the same respect.

Also, on Shep Smith, he may be a giant tool, but at least he has called out Fox/the GOP on its gay hating.
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@28, he still has to have his staff remind him if he's gay or not every couple of days.
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I thought it was all holograms now.
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Looks like they've done away with all reporting from reporters and will move to just aggregating, from you know, information specialists.
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needs more lens flare to truly look like the bridge of the Enterprise
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I have participated in a few technology focus groups and I'm trying to imagine the research that led to the failed enterprise design approach, the endless this-or-that or what-is-more-futuristic-looking questions. Think of what those focus group participants looked like. Holy crap
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@29: According to the Xtians he is. (The X is because they're eXtreme)
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What sort of moron watches (US-based) cable news?

@28: "he comports himself with dignity"

Does he really?
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so great to see them keeping up with people using those new technologies like "Computers" "cell phones" and "the internet". Hey they said it!

I am briefly taking time out to check email and look at the news, briefly is the key word here, I don't care about any of what they are talking about. I think many people are over this crap and TV trying desperately to seem relevant like they think computers are. Who cares!

Today I had a Bobcat trying to get a few chickens (no big deal really) and I took a walk through the forest and took pictures of mushrooms and sat for awhile beneath a tree. It was raining a little but quiet, a woodpecker scaled another tree close to me.

I don't give a rats ass and never will give a rats ass about how news is being delivered to me and who "Tweeted" about it first.
I will drive back to the city tomorrow and probably will see someone texting while driving or doing some other thing they have no will power to control. Thinking that they have to be connected to crap like FOX news and their giant ass touch screens. Nothing they showed seemed new. And don't get me started on that Ted Knight anchor guy.

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They make it sound like that they haven't already decided what the "Truth" is. So coy.

Also, given their history of fact checking I propose we hit them with a tweet storm about zombies on the 30th ala Orson Wells.
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Ohmygodimdying. The 30-something foot-long screen that allows him the revolutionary new journalism-furthering technique of shuffling photos. Cannot wait to see the live on-air havoc this expensive, useless shit, causes.
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Sadly I think it more likely they are copying the NSA command center modeled after Enterprise bridge.
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It's basically an updated version of this http://www.homerswebpage.com/
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55" touch screens? At which one sits as though at a lovely-sized monitored computer, but without a frakkin' mouse?

My arms hurt just looking at that shit.
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Frankly speaking, this is not my first time to see the big screen. In my mind, 55'' is not so giant as it's promoted. You can find much larger one here:
http://tabler.tv/
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@37: Like obscenity, they know it when they see it.

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