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  • From: "Tim Harper" <tharper AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Not Music Related - Will Fox News Make You Taller?
  • Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:00:57 GMT

So, while their news coverage may be 'fair and balanced' it appears that
their cameras are 'fairly unbalanced'.

insert groan here.

Tim

"grady" <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote in message
4161989D.3000902 AT ibiblio.org">news:4161989D.3000902 AT ibiblio.org...
> Go figure: Fox News supplied the video feed for the first debate:
>
>
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=6394
417
>
> "Under a rotation system established by the major networks for covering
> political events, Fox News Channel operated the "pool" cameras that
> supplied the broadcast feed for all the networks on Thursday."
>
> I personally thought Kerry's sallow greenness was slightly less
> appetizing than Bush's clenched-teeth orangeness, but they were both
> kinda creepy.
>
> Guess we know it *won't* be Fox handling the video for the veep debate
> tomorrow -- can't wait to see Cheney & Edwards side-by-side on the
> [apparently technically verboten] split-screen.
>
> Ross
>
> Ben Davis wrote:
>
> > I noticed the color thing first off -
> > surfed like 7 different stations - all had the same tint
> > if it was all of a single feed - could have been color balance issues -
> > or could have been the actually lighting -
> > could have Bush's spray on tan...
> >
> > Jason M. Sullivan wrote:
> >
> >>In article <415D9BC4.8040502 AT ibiblio.org>, grady wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Heh. We watched it on C-SPAN, which did the split-screen thing nearly
> >>>100% of the time.
> >>
> >>
> >>I loved it, really.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>[Bush] also appeared to be more normally flesh-colored, whereas Kerry
> >>>was a slightly ghoulish greenish color.
> >>
> >>
> >>Judging from the color of the podums beneath them, I'd say the white
> >>balance was off on Kerry's camera. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who
> >>noticed this.
> >>
> >>It made Bush look... well... orange.
> >>
> >>--
> >> //// Jason M. SULLIVAN jsullivan AT nc.rr.com
> >> |c-oo http://www.jason0x21.org
> >> \_- "That's not music, that's just sound!" - J. David Fries
> >
> >
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