CNN Marks Cheney With An “X”
Weird…
Drudge Report – At 11:04:45 AM ET Monday CNN was airing Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington — when a large black ‘X’ repeatedly flashed over the vice president’s face!
The ‘X’ over Cheney’s face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect.
As this DRUDGE REPORT screen capture reveals, while one ‘X’ flashed over Cheney’s face CNN ran a headline at the bottom of its screen: “CHENEY: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT IS WRONG TO CRITICIZE.”
One top White House source expressed concern about what was aired over CNN.
“Is someone in Atlanta trying to tell us something?”
You wouldn’t think something like this would be on purpose, but its hard to see where it could be nothing more than a simple broadcast error. I mean…why an “x”?
But then, I’m no broadcasting expert.
Update:
Evan Coyne Maloney:
Apparently, either a video glitch or not-glitch resulted in a few flashes of an “X” over Vice President Cheney’s face while he was delivering a speech. A number of conservative bloggers are criticizing CNN under the assumption that the glitch (or not-glitch) was both deliberate and an example of political bias.
Sorry guys, I don’t see it. I recognize the possibility, but I also recognize a much larger number of possibilities for actual glitches in video production. True, I don’t work in live video, but I’ve seen software bugs and unintuitive behavior cause bizarre flashes where one video track has been accidentally merged onto another. It looks to me like something similar happened with CNN.
That’s about where I’m at.
Video available here.
Why an X? Problems do happen but I have never seen an X appear so bold on screen as well as be placed directly over the VP’s face.
&heellip; CNN Marks Cheney With An “X” By Rob on November 21, 2005 at 11:52 pm &heellip;
&heellip; Looks like there may well be more to that giant “X” that appeared on Cheney’s face during a speech than I first thought. &heellip;
Explanation here. I’ve lost my Masonic codebook so I don’t know what the words mean but Michelle Malkin (or perhaps it’s her husband) is apparently satisfied.
Is it in the center of the screen? I wonder if the x was used before filming to center the frame or the lens or something like that. It was live, so it couldn’t have been a post-production issue.
There would appear to be text under the X in black, can anyone make any of it out?
Bias in the media? What bias, I don’t see no stinking bias!