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CNN: 'IT WAS A COMPUTER BUG'
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| 11/22/05
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Posted on 11/22/2005 9:43:43 AM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: ClearCase_guy
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"Yes it was a computer bug, and it was put there by my wife, Morgan Fairchild..."
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posted on
11/22/2005 10:12:14 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: conservative in nyc
Ok, CNN... I'm sure that someone over there is monitoring how this explanation is going over, so let me explain it to you.
The edit bay computer can only go live over the air if the control room pulls the wrong feed. Those 'x's didn't randomly jump over to the live feed, someone screwed up, either by accident or on purpose.
Yes, someone was likely pulling snippets of the speech for later broadcast - duh, you're a news outlet, you do that. They were edit marks - again, fine, not a problem. But to claim it is a non-recreatable computer error? Bullpucky. The computer doesn't jump feeds, operators control that.
Standards and practices is something the networks live and breathe, something that CNN desperately needs to adopt. Pull the wrong feed for a story segment and the anchor chuckles and you either try it again or go onto another story. Pull the wrong feed during a single shot speech? The operator gets fired and the network makes public it's regrets because there is no reasonable excuse.
That you guys didn't fire the employee (doesn't really matter whom, actually, since we're not in your control room) and are hiding behind a 'bug' that supposedly 'comes up when you don't reboot' isn't going to fly. One more stick for the conspiracy theory people to whap you with, and well deserved for using such a flimsy excuse. Stupidity. There goes another few thousand viewers over to Fox.
82
posted on
11/22/2005 10:12:39 AM PST
by
kingu
(I'm a liberal's worst nightmare - a conservative that votes.)
To: All
Even if what they say is true, their long record of agenda driven, irresponsible and erroneous 'reporting' works against them.
In other words, they have no credibility.
83
posted on
11/22/2005 10:12:43 AM PST
by
NewLand
(Posting against liberalism since the 20th century!)
To: ksen
That's not a bug, that means it is working just fine.Or as we say, "That's not a bug, that's a feature."
84
posted on
11/22/2005 10:13:05 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: conservative in nyc
What they really mean is that they can reproduce it without having someone there deliberately doing it (as it originally happened).
85
posted on
11/22/2005 10:14:02 AM PST
by
Grig
To: conservative in nyc
Can't you all see somehow this is Bush's fault?
CXN (formerly CNN): "If Bush would have never won the election, Cheney wouldn't have been Vice President. Hence, if he were not Vice President, he'd never be broadcast during this time slot. We'd probably had a commercial running during this time frame so that "X" would have flashed up during this time slot. So, yes. It really is Bush's fault..."
To: Rippin
My educated guess is that the software package used by CNN communisty news network has a feature to x out deleted material. My guess, is some control room operation is getting funny and got caught.
Or someone in the control center has a real hatrid for the Adminstration and on purpose X the VP as a consise decision to muddy the VP on national public TV.
87
posted on
11/22/2005 10:14:50 AM PST
by
CHICAGOFARMER
(Right to Carry (RTC))
To: conservative in nyc
I don't trust CNN any further than I can throw Ted Kennedy, but it is possible.
I was recording an episode of "Smallville" and noticed in one scene there was a black "X" across the screen for about 10 seconds. It was thinner than the one over Cheney tho.
88
posted on
11/22/2005 10:15:52 AM PST
by
yarddog
To: conservative in nyc
First of all, a switcher is a machine, not a person. Garbage in, garbage out.
To: mainepatsfan
Fox and Friends did a black X over Brian Kilmeade this a.m. and then moved it over to Steve.
90
posted on
11/22/2005 10:17:37 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(This ashtray, the paddlegame, the remote control, the lamp and the chair. That's all I need!)
To: conservative in nyc
Clearly CNN does not have complete control of its equipment. It has fallen behind in its training and it has shown no plan for ensuring that the control room staff can stand on their own.
CNN should get out of the cable news business immediately, since it obviously went in with bad intelligence.
91
posted on
11/22/2005 10:17:41 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
Daryn Kagan.....is Rush still hitting that?
92
posted on
11/22/2005 10:20:07 AM PST
by
clintonh8r
(I hope I'm at home when the GOP Senate Campaign Committee calls for some money.)
To: conservative in nyc
I don't attach any credibility to CNN's reporting so why should I believe their BS excuse.
93
posted on
11/22/2005 10:20:46 AM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: txflake
He has one in South Carolina??
94
posted on
11/22/2005 10:20:52 AM PST
by
Howlin
("Victory is not a strategy. " ``Jack Murtha 11/18/05)
To: conservative in nyc
CNN....only a DUmbass would take those people seriously.
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posted on
11/22/2005 10:21:41 AM PST
by
clintonh8r
(I hope I'm at home when the GOP Senate Campaign Committee calls for some money.)
To: conservative in nyc
The story has made it on to the internet and various blogs in there. CNN is really with it when it comes to the internet.
Yup, that there story done gone on to the in-ter-net, and onto them blog-thingees like what they got there.
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posted on
11/22/2005 10:21:47 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: conservative in nyc
Hmmmmmmm—does anybody know what
Spike Lee is doing these days? ;-)
97
posted on
11/22/2005 10:23:16 AM PST
by
cartan
CXN! or XNN! or CNX!
Works for me. ;-D
98
posted on
11/22/2005 10:25:23 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: CHICAGOFARMER
I agree. The 'position' of the X right smack on Cheney and the words covering up Cheney's words was no mistake.. some creep at CNN couldn't resist being an axxhole.
99
posted on
11/22/2005 10:27:12 AM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: Rippin
Wasn't that what Bill Clinton got in trouble for: playing with someone else's equipment??
100
posted on
11/22/2005 10:29:44 AM PST
by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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