The Tick, Tick, Tick of the Times - TimeFrames - TIME: "Right after 9/11, the ticker was a way of offering raw news; in the years afterward, it became a symbol of the refusal to filter that news. Like a stuck car alarm, it stopped being an alert to any particular urgency and became a source of constant, low-level unease."
..."producers found the ticker to be useful, a way to give viewers a sense that they were getting the most info in the least time and a place to shunt the headlines during the opinion shows that increasingly dominated cable post-9/11.
But it always had to be filled: the ticker never sleeps. It opened up to sports scores and people news. It became a thing of accidental terror (dirty bomb attack ... might scroll on before a commercial that prevented it from finishing ... simulation exercise under way ...) or accidental bathos (rolling on under a news report about Israeli-Palestinian peace talks: iphone 4 in short supply for china launch ... Lindsay Lohan could enter rehab this week ...)."
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
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