In order to pull that little trick, they had to key an animated "X" in every fifteen frames or so.
Surely the frothing liberal lunatics at CNN are quite innocent in this whole affair. I mean, it's quite obvious that they would never stoop to such brainless Stalinist tactics.
In order to pull that little trick, they had to key an animated "X" in every fifteen frames or so.
It does look like operator error. Somewhere along the line someone probably puched up the CG (Chyron, Character Gen). -keyed it in - and the text had a flashing X in it. I bet it was most likely that someone was playing around in a control room to cause this.