CNN Anchors Pretend They’re Having A “Satellite Interview” Even Though They’re In The Same Parking L

LateX'Dog · 9 May 2013 at 20:44

Oh CNN you fail on so many ways.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/nancy-grace-ashleigh-banfield-cnn-parking-lot/64965/

Its a bit ridiculous but for me this just adds to the tally of proof that American news is completely retarded.

Nymins · 9 May 2013 at 20:57

Well tbf they are on different networks. So as stupid as it is, it's somewhat understandable.

Suarez7 · 9 May 2013 at 21:01

LateX it seems to me like you just sit on the internetz looking for the most uninteresting things you can find to post here.

Doomedspeed · 9 May 2013 at 21:06

Suarez7 said:
LateX it seems to me like you just sit on the internetz looking for the most uninteresting things you can find to post here.

Well.. someone has too, right?..

Soundood · 9 May 2013 at 21:38

I have been trying to make sense of this type of thing for years,

so David Cameron makes a comment at 10 Downing street at 2pm say, I then watch the News at Ten, and some numb nut is standing outside 10 downing street, LIVE

he is LIVE from the location Cameron was at 8 hours earlier? Why?

and usually in the rain to boot, just amazing madness

Raumarik · 9 May 2013 at 21:47

Justifies his wages.

d_brennen · 9 May 2013 at 21:48

Suarez7 said:
LateX it seems to me like you just sit on the internetz looking for the most uninteresting things you can find to post here.

It's all part of THEIR plot

Glaucus · 9 May 2013 at 21:50

I'm not seeing the issue, it's not like they said they were somewhere they weren't.
I bet the place is crawling with reports, so they probably didn't know they were that close either.

SexyGreyFox · 9 May 2013 at 21:53

I can't see what the problem is.
What do you think is the problem LateX'Dog?

[FnG]magnolia · 9 May 2013 at 21:53

OP's fascination with the US is worrying. Hilarious but still worrying.

theleg · 9 May 2013 at 21:59

It does show their locations as being the same.

unwashed potato! · 9 May 2013 at 22:57

i don't see the issue. i expect we wont be seeing from latex in this thread again

deanolfc · 9 May 2013 at 23:00

corporate whore media at its best

IRLeetly · 9 May 2013 at 23:00

Hey it's 'Murica, that car park could have been 8 states wide.....

[FnG]magnolia · 9 May 2013 at 23:02

deanolfc said:
corporate whore media at its best

What does this mean?

Angilion · 10 May 2013 at 02:38

Where's the evidence that they were pretending? It's plausible that the standard procedure for a 3-way interview between the studio and people on location is to use a satellite and that's what's done regardless of the physical location of the people outside the studio.

In any case, it doesn't look like the two people we can see on screen are in the same location. If they were, wouldn't the person on the left and the person filming her would be visible behind the person on the right? Hmm...maybe they'd be just out of shot.

But anyway...why care?

arknor · 10 May 2013 at 02:55

just because they are next to each other doesn't mean the interview isn't done via satelite lol

Werewolf · 10 May 2013 at 03:39

Not to mention it's likely the director in the studio taking the feeds from both cameras over a satellite link and deciding when and where to cut between them.

But as said above, it looks like they're a reasonable distance apart, given the bus (assuming it's the same bus, and not just from the same company*) appears to be fairly close in one, and further out in the other (IE they could be in the same parking lot - but on different sides to cover different areas).

*Given that looks like a generic livery for a fleet of buses, in which case it's more than possible to have loads of them in a town (and likely in shot of cameras at the same general time, if the cameras are set up near busy roads, in the obvious location of car parks).