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2005-11-22 Fifth Column

CNN Senior Management Launches Investigation Of Cheney 'X'

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-22 09:26|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 like Dick gives a rats ass.

Posted by bk 2005-11-22 10:06|| 2005-11-22 10:06|| Front Page Top

#2 An error or not, when you generate an atmosphere of hate and loathing, people are unlikely to buy your excuse when stuff like this happens. When you hammer other people to be PC and exempt yourself from the same standards you've declared for them and when people in your own house commit the same acts in form or substance, you've buried yourself. Now live with it. Its not like this will be a wakeup call about how you need to seriously change the atmosphere of behavior within your own organization. An even bigger hammer is waiting down the road.

Posted by Whating Elmeath2891 2005-11-22 10:07|| 2005-11-22 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Right... a glitch in a switcher. The only glitch I see is the switcher didn't cycle fast enough to hide the "X" and make it truly subliminal. I would suspect CNN does this quite often.

Posted by Chans Uleter9492 2005-11-22 10:25|| 2005-11-22 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The most trusted name in network news. There, I said it with a straight face.

Posted by Curt Simon 2005-11-22 11:04|| 2005-11-22 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 What are the odds of this happening when Hillary is giving a speech?

Posted by Matt 2005-11-22 11:30|| 2005-11-22 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Right. A large dark X appears directly centered on the face of a high official in an administration that CNN openly undermines at every opportunity, and it is just a random accident. Give me a break. The odds against that happening "accidentally" are astronomically large.

Posted by docob 2005-11-22 11:37|| 2005-11-22 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL! Nice woik on the font.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-22 13:14|| 2005-11-22 13:14|| Front Page Top

#8 CNN spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg emails: "We concluded this was a technological malfunction not an issue of operator error...... she said with an almost straight face, as her office cheered and did high-fives in the background.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-22 18:38|| 2005-11-22 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 This is baloney. I have worked in television studios for 15 years and have never seen a generic "X" like this produced from any piece of eqipment including the grass valley switchers, routers and source switches. It was designed by a control room staffer showing off, put on preview to look at and the Grass Valley Switch Tech "accidently" hit the key and quickly cut it off. The CNN staff got caught doing something they probably joke about on a daily basis. I hope heads roll. If it was equipment, it would have not been superimposed in the key bus.

Posted by Johnnie Bartlette 2005-11-22 19:29|| 2005-11-22 19:29|| Front Page Top

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