Paging Darth Vadar and Capt. Kirk . . .
The newest thing journalists like are holograms. Journalists didn’t
even know of the existence of holograms outside of “Star Wars” until CNN used them
during its election 2008 coverage – because electing the country’s
first black president apparently wasn’t exciting enough. Upon seeing
Wolf Blitzer talk to correspondents via hologram, they became the
newest thing journalists like.
Journalists like holograms because they make everything before them
seem lame. CNN’s Magic Wall? Now officially lame. Talking to reporters
via satellite? Yawn. Split screen? Might as well conduct the interview
in a newspaper. CNN introduces its hologram technology just as the
other networks caught up to its Magic Wall.
It’s not sure yet whether the world is ready for holograms. Will
Barack Obama be the first president to conduct an interview via
hologram and does anyone really want to see 360º Jack Cafferty?
Journalists are still scratching their heads wondering what
holograms mean for them and their jobs. Can journalists report from
their bedrooms instead of the campaign trails? Can networks “clone” their correspondents and use the clones as a budget-cutting measure? (Scratch that – it may give a network executive ideas.)
Just imagine, a mere decades ago the only tools TV journalists had
to tell the news was a camera and that floating screen next to their
heads. Barbaric! Even with this new technology, local newscasts will
still be limited to dry-erase boards however.
Only minutes after the introduction of this pointless new technology did the jokes come rolling in.
“Help me, Wolf Blitzer, you are my only hope.”
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This could just be me, but as a journalist, I’m terribly impressed by holograms … but I’ll expand on that by saying I love LASERS. Anything with lasers is cool. Add a fog machine and I’d even sit through Wolf Blitzer or other American news programming.