I ’m not a big television watcher . I care the episodic GSN syllabus , The Office , of course , some ball games , and my HBO shows , but other than that , I ’d rather watch my 10 - calendar month - honest-to-god because he ’s a ) less predictable , b ) funnier , and c ) does n’t make me sit through snipes , bugs and data point dumps .
Who ’s with me on this get trend ? frankly , it ’s like one 24-hour interval all the networks had a huddle and some young exec cajoled everyone into slapping these unbecoming things all over our CRT screen .
Let ’s break down the class :
1 . snipe
2 . Bugs
These are the annoying channel logo which seem to be growing in size every time I turn on the subway system . I do n’t beware them so much when the opacity is crank down to near transparency , but have you seen NBC ’s recently ? gentleman’s gentleman - atomic number 8 - humans ! That impress peacock thing is such a distraction , no ?
3 . Data Dumps
According to Wiki , crawl news , or data dumpsite , debuted long before the 24 - hour news meshwork took over . " The first record of a newsworthiness ticker as part of a regular broadcast is from NBC ’s Today show on its debut edition , January 14 , 1952 . Without the welfare of computer - generated headlines and graphic , the ticker was vastly unlike than the one we would know today . The Today ticker was an actual piece of paper with typewritten headline superimposed on the lower third of the sieve . The stock ticker was never very successful as a communications tool , and was flatten not long thereafter . “
Of course , today , it seems every station has a crawl or two . Have you go through ESPN News in HD ? It ’s fill up with horizontal crawl , erect creep space , break news program alert ! that come and go with forced urgency , and tabs that move atop the picture . I ’m telling you , it pretend Bloomberg look like PBS .
Soon , if the networks have their way , the viewing distance will be a 2x3 lame , free up the balance of the screen for ads because everyone will have TiVo , or its equivalent .
So what ’s the antidote voguish readers ? We need some solutions to this unsettling vogue , and fast .
