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...Blitzer and his virtual correspondent, most viewers probably don't care whether what they saw was a real hologram or a fake one - which means CNN probably doesn't either. Still, promises Bohrman, "when and if technology allows us to do this for real, we really will...
...advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements in online video games, including the racing game “Burnout Paradise” and role-playing game Second Life. Republican presidential candidate John McCain also had an avatar on Second Life, but Obama supporters playing Second Life painted virtual graffiti and virtually double-parked in front of McCain’s virtual apartment, according to Hillygus. Such advertising was less effective for McCain because his constituency was less likely to play video games, she said...
...answer: special effects! Election night captured in miniature the brilliance and ridiculousness of election 2008 in the media. NBC painted an electoral map on New York City's Rockefeller Center skating rink and stood its hosts in front of enough virtual Greek columns to stage a hundred Obama rallies; 3-D graphics sprouted out of studio floors and hung in the air; and CNN unveiled the most amazing and goofy innovation, 3-D projections of studio guests speaking to the network's anchors like Princess Leia asking Obi-Wan for help in Star Wars. Anderson Cooper ended an interview with...
Still, with one network set after another looking like the sales floor of a Circuit City, it seemed as though the networks were trying to buy gravitas with high-tech gadgets. The screens dripped data--a list of states running down the side, graphics spanning the bottom, a "virtual Senate" materializing on CNN. Even the pundits metastasized: the networks had banks upon banks of them, lined up like operators at a telethon. Look at all this information! the screens screamed. Look at all this analysis! Never mind that we're sitting on the news...
...point, NBC political director Chuck Todd scribbled on a "virtual whiteboard" in a kind of tribute, wondering what Russert would have said about the night's results. Todd and a few others still use math and reporting to crack the electoral code as Russert did. But they don't have Russert's authority...