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Stinky The Clown

(67,792 posts) Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:07 PM Apr 2013

Note to MSNBC: When you show a press conference, turn off the second, split screen audio feed.

A doc from Mass General was speaking. MSNBC took the feed, but showed it split screen with video of the bombing. They had the sound for both of them, with the volume higher on the raw video of the bombing scene. The doc's words were unintelligible.

CNN has the same split screen sort of thing, but only one audio feed.

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Note to MSNBC: When you show a press conference, turn off the second, split screen audio feed. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Apr 2013 OP

Just show the press conference. Ilsa Apr 2013 #1

Seems Like The Cable News Coverage Of This Event Is Designed To Invoke Maximum Fear..... global1 Apr 2013 #4

ITA. And it's traumatic to watch. That's why Ilsa Apr 2013 #5

I turned it off for that reason. lpbk2713 Apr 2013 #2

I think they have control room people younger than the children they have on as daytime hosts. Stinky The Clown Apr 2013 #3

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)

1. Just show the press conference.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:11 PM

Apr 2013

The video from the bomb site has played 10 times since O'Donnell started his show. They keep restarting it and playing it continuously. I wish they would stop that.

global1

(25,242 posts)

4. Seems Like The Cable News Coverage Of This Event Is Designed To Invoke Maximum Fear.....

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:38 PM

Apr 2013

in the viewing audience. They keep replaying the explosion and the aftermath on a continuous loop. Fear. Fear. Fear.

I hate when the media does this. It appears that they do it on purpose in order to indelibly imprint these images in the minds of the viewer.