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britneyspearstears
12/22/08

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They should reserve the crawl for related information or non-news anecdotes... it's always odd when they throw something serious up there, and you only catch the last half "...hundreds dead, people living in or around the downtown area are advised to stay indoors, 'mass epidemic certain' says CDC spokesperson, stay tuned for more information."
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Dolomite
12/22/08

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Again, people annoyed by something they are perfectly capable of just fucking ignoring.
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badasscat
12/22/08

@Dolomite: You're one to talk - you got awful mad when I came over and poked you repeatedly with a stick. Why couldn't you just fucking ignore it?
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eatsshootsleaves
12/22/08

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Meh, the crawl is the LEAST offensive part of cable news. I'd rather read a bunch of headlines than have to listen to whatever passes for "analysis" on CNN these days.
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unclevanya
12/21/08

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What CNN has replaced it with it even worse: a white panel with black text (ehich is harsher to the eye) that either summarizes the story going on above it, or something even more benign.
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Shelwood
12/21/08

@unclevanya: I've been missing Pop-Up Video. Can they make it do the *ploop* sound, too?
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Moff
12/21/08

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Only seven years old? Really? I feel like it's been with us for so much longer.
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tunamelt
12/21/08

@Moff: That's what I was wondering. There's no way it's that young! But, then again, it's not like I actually watched the news before 9/11 so really, the crawl is all I know.

Don't take my reality away from me, CNN.
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llamalash★
12/21/08

@tunamelt: I'm thinking someone in research dropped the ball. It has to be older than 9/11.
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unclevanya
12/21/08

@llamalash: No, I remember it distinctly, the phenomenom popped up right after 9/11. Before that, it was only used by financial channels/shows to roll out real-time stock prices.
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badasscat
12/22/08

@tunamelt: Crawls existed before 9/11, but they were rarely used. They were not a standard feature of every news broadcast like they are now. They were mostly relegated to financial news and *occasionally* to breaking news, especially when there was more than one major story happening at the same time, or there were a bunch of different angles to it.

On 9/11, they put the crawl on (justifiably) but then they just forgot to turn it off.
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Weegee's bored
12/21/08

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Life will not be worth living without animated gifs and other graphical wonders taking up the bottom third of the screen.
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Baroness
12/21/08

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How will paranoid psychotics get their personalized instructions, now?
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Dickdogfood
12/21/08

@Baroness: The weather report. Like, duh.
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LilyBlue
12/21/08

@Baroness: Tin foil hats. In fact, if you had a tin foil hat, it would have told you to pay no attention the crawl. It would have told you that the crawl was just something put out by your enemies to seduce you to the dark side.

In fact, given this whole recession we're going through, I think I'm going to start a tin foil hat business. Perhaps I'll advertise on CNN. Or, if I can't afford CNN, maybe I'll advertise on Gawker.
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Smitros
12/21/08

@Baroness:

Dogs.

We're going back to the 70s.
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BookishLookish
12/21/08

@Smitros: Uh-oh, not so good for brunettes if we are!
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Smitros
12/21/08

@BookishLookish:

I have clout with dogs. I'll try to change their minds on this one.
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LilyBlue
12/21/08

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I love the crawl. Maybe it's just my ADD talking, but I like the crawl. I mean, thank god you get something to read while you listen. But those annoying vignette ads that pop up while you're watching something must go. If I wanted to watch "The Closer", that's what I'd be watching. All the network is doing by putting that ad up while I'm watching my show of choice is make me that much less likely to watch my show of choice.
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
12/21/08

@LilyBlue: I'm ADD and there's no way I can watch any of the news channels without losing my mind. The constant scrolling bothers me along with the images. One time I saw the ticker, the split screen, the time on the side of the monitor, the bug at the top left of the monitor and it made me want to lay down and take an aspirin.
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Dickdogfood
12/21/08

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Was it my imagination, or did CNN or Fox once have two simultaneous crawls during their non-financial-news programming?
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MissCast
12/21/08

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Was it Seinfeld who said it didn't make sense because we watch tv so we don't have to read?

That was about 10 years ago and also about the last time he said anything remotely amusing.
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AllsWell
12/21/08

@MissCast: I once dated a guy who wouldn't go with me to foreign films. He said "I don't go to the movies to read."
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skahammer
12/22/08

@AllsWell: You sure can pick 'em.
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MrInBetween
12/21/08

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CNN is killing the crawl because its executives wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to put this up at Noon on Jan. 20, 2009, and keep it rolling for eight glorious years:

YES, WE DID!... PRESIDENT BARRY... 44!... OBAMA POWER... OBAMA # ONE!!!... BARACK: PRAISE HIM... 44!... BARRY IS DA MAN... PRESIDENT BARRY: JUST LET THOSE BEAUTIFUL WORDS ROLL OFF THE CRAWL... 44!... YES, WE DID!... BARRY! BARRY! BARRY!... 44!... MICHELLE IS DA BOMB... PREZ BARRY!...44!...
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Shelwood
12/21/08

@MrInBetween: Thankfully, MSNBC is still free to use this text crawl verbatim for the next four to eight years.
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