CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH
Posted on 11/21/2005 6:27:44 PM PST by RWR8189
Edited on 11/21/2005 6:40:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON NOV 21, 2005 21:25:35 ET XXXXX
CNN MARKS CHENEY: NETWORK FLASHES 'X' OVER VP'S FACE DURING LIVE SPEECH
**Exclusive**
At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington -- when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face!
The 'X' over Cheney's face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect.
As this DRUDGE REPORT screen capture reveals, while one 'X' flashed over Cheney's face CNN ran a headline at the bottom of its screen: "CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE."
One top White House source expressed concern about what was aired over CNN.
"Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?"
A CNN spokesman did not return repeated calls late Monday night.
Developing...
That's the kicker......why so long to answer a simple question if it was all innocent? Computer glitch, yeah sure.......
Here's a difference between two frames. It's almost impossible to read the hidden text. 
-PJ
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"A Free Press that does not give the American People...
..just the FACTS, Ma'am,
will soon lose its Right to do so!"
Freeper ALOHA RONNIE-1999
Programming a cg to flash takes about 3 keystrokes and can be done in less than a second. And I would venture to say that this cg defaults to 2 flashes per second. As I said, it's likely that someone in another control room was doing something with a CG and had it over some video, and that control room was accidentally 'punched up.' When I was doing production and setting up the CG I would put it over a video source (I usually used the net feed), as when the playback tapes for your production are stopped you generally lose sync and don't see the CG overlay properly.
I just went to CNN to watch the bar at the bottom of the screen. They run a graphic in the headline bar with the large CNN scrolling in from the right hand side of the screen to the left. There are also other graphics in the banner which may explain the weird "ghost" image. There doesn't seem to be any dark lettering over the banner though.
Someone should fly a toy plane into the satellite dish outside CNN headquarters and cause a minor disruption...
Jamie Kennedy got to him.
Unfortunately it appears no one has ever heard of any similar occurance of "fooling around" in thousands of hours of TV for thousands of viewers.
Although your explanation is plausible, it is not probable. This X is consistent with other behaviour in the media, and given that in millions of hours of viewing no one can think of a similar event - it appears intentional.
I would expect the only unintentional part of this story is that the people responsible will be caught.
Nah...he will be promoted.
Exactly.
If more frames are found, some of our more talented FReepers hopefully will do the over-lay. Other pictures/frames would have the same writing on the bottom, but other sections may be more visible, contrast may vary.
>>>One of the President's legacies will surely be that he "outed" the entire NY/DC media for what they are, political operatives with the DNC.
>>>Finally, there is NO doubt that we have not been getting accurate, fair, objective, contextual, historical information for 30 years. And was that information corrupt?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320747/posts
George Soros, Media Connections - Bump List
how close can you get with google earth? I have no clue. I am running win 98 2nd.
I believe it was done intentionally, but I don't think the graphic overlay was created specifically for the job. Instead, I think someone mucked around with a piece of equipment knowing that it would generate the black "X". This gives them plausible deniability after the fact.
That is, the black "X" image is probably some valid output of the device, indicating lack of signal or whatever, and the technician knew it could be made to do this. So he tweaked it a few times during the speech. When caught, he easily plays the "mistake" card.
It makes little sense to have a character generator that "defaults" to displaying text that no one can perceive with the naked eye.
I think you are right. We have a talented membership!!
Tired tonight so calling it quits.
Ping me if there is any news I miss
In non-linear editing, an X is often imposed over a video transition that has not been rendered yet.
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