CNN production engineers must really *hate* the blogosphere. I blame incompetence/bad day/newby-under-pressure over malice. I have had an "insiders" tour of CNN, hosted by one of the few conservative employees (they all know each other, and are benignly tolerated by the rest) and it really is an impressive bunch of people to watch work. But they *are* human. But if it was a glitch, y'know the one who did it is a minor legend in that crowd now...
There are dissenting opinions, of course. Like Real Teen - Right On the Right who emails:
For everyone covering the CNN X, here's what you need to know: Don't rule out that it was intentional based on the text that appeared. CNN was getting a live feed, so they would have had to overlay ANOTHER feed to insert the X. If they did, that may have been what caused the "transition" text to appear. This is a viable theory because FOX News was recieving the same feed WITHOUT the X. That means there was some sort of problem between the time the feed got into CNN and onto the air. These feeds are only a 3-7 second delay, so it's very possible that a feed was set-up within CNN to put the X over Cheney. If this is true, a technical problem caused the text to appear, while the X was intentional. While we have no evidence of this, we shouldn't rule this thing as a total glitch yet. Just my 2 cents.
You should check out his Emails to San Fran campaign.
Glitch my ass. How could it be a glitch. First it was the Veep. Second it was the letter "X". What more proof do you need?
As I said, your mileage may vary.
Speaking for myself entirely here, and not as a representative of the company..."
We have mistakes occasionally because we hire people off the street and rotate them through jobs. Some folks stay in certain news positions a great deal, others move around and then go to greener pastures at the other networks. The average newsroom staffer doesn't stay a long time and doesn't get paid a heck of a lot. There are some that stay for the job and those are usually more competent folks.
Given that I've only been in the control rooms a coupla times, I have a small window on it, but it's a pretty hectic place. The Producer is screaming for something on the phone with an Assistant producer, the Director is yelling at the sound guy to adjust something, some other guy is fiddling with a camera remotely (Note they're showing 3-4 live cameras now on those shows). During the Rumsfeld interview I saw some really odd camera herkey jerkeyness that was due to their remote control nature. I don't know why they're tweaking camera's like that live.
Anyhow, what I'm trying to say is that in all likeliness this was someone screwing up a feed queue and fucking up, for which there was probably a lot more screaming in the Control Room. I've seen live feeds go to black more than a few times. Usually it's accompanied by me yelling "way to go!
Oh, and there's quite a few conservatives here. Anyone that does engineering for the networks in all the term gears and most of the IT staff tend to lean to the middle of the road to the conservative side. We could probably triple the security staff with armed employees if we had to repel boarders or something during a protest that got out of hand.
Of course, this won't stop me ribbing the hell out of the CNN engineers when I see one of them next...."Dude, what's the deal with the control room staff, can't they run their gear with out farking up an interview with the VP?"
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