Thursday, December 13, 2007

My head's gonna explode from the Fox News Channel's excessive visuals

They currently have...EIGHT fucking things going on at once on one screen. NINE if you include the occasional word "ALERT" popping up and, naturally, flashing. And with many of the things rotating or flashing or moving in SOME way, it's probably close to 15 things happening. I can't fucking deal with this sensory-overloaded society anymore...and this coming from a Type A person who's very much full of energy and multitasked before it was a word. It's yet another Democratic Debate that we're watching and here's what we've got...1) the running news crawl on TWO-THIRDS of the bottom of the screen, 2) various stock indexes on the REMAINING bottom third, 3) the rotating FOX NEWS logo on the "second level" of the bottom left, 4) endlessly changing "Fox Facts" in the center of the "second bottom level," 5) a rotating graphic that either says "The Iowa Debates" or "You Decide 2008" completing the "second lower level" on the right side, 6) some kind of endlessly changing, live focus group "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" graph that reacts to what the candidates are saying taking up a little less than half of the center left side of the screen (did you follow that?), 7) an actually static (gasp!) "You Decide 2008/Voters Choice/Democrats" graphic on the UPPER right hand side of the screen, and FINALLY 8) yes, what we're actually supposed to be WATCHING...the debate...squeezed into the remaining upper leftish part of the screen. It's fucking NUTS. TOO much goddamn information!! **The icing on the cake of viewing this was saying to myself, "WHY does that focus group moderator look SO familiar?!" And i've seen him the past few days on, I guess, the FNC, and it mildly nagged at me. Today I realized...THIS guy, Frank Luntz, is from Luntz Research...and is the guy who moderated MY focus group on beer last month!! I can't believe it! THEN I realized that I'd seen ads on Craigslist looking for participants for today's "be on TV!" political focus group...for which, if you can believe it, I had zero interest. So that was all just odd and funny. But back to all the graphics...ENOUGH!!

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