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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Tue May 7, 2013, 04:44 PM May 2013

CNN's Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot

Source: The Atlantic Wire

In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd "satellite" interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all.

The two suspects are Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of Headline News, who were updating viewers on the latest from the ongoing and increasingly ugly Cleveland kidnapping story.

... It seems that Grace and Banfield are sitting in the same parking lot, facing in the same direction, and judging by the speed of the vehicles in their shots, they cannot be sitting more than 30 feet away from each other. Yet, they're behaving as if the are on opposite sides of the world.



Read more: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/nancy-grace-ashleigh-banfield-cnn-parking-lot/64965/

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CNN's Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot (Original Post) Newsjock May 2013 OP
I've noticed lately EC May 2013 #1
That is not unusual. graham4anything May 2013 #2
For the dramatic affect? DCKit May 2013 #3
Maybe no one wanted to fall victim to Nancy farting ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2013 #4
Nancy looked like she wanted to strangle someone Life Long Dem May 2013 #5
 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
2. That is not unusual.
Tue May 7, 2013, 04:47 PM
May 2013

Most times there are many newsgroups within yards of each other

look back at 12/12/2000 and the courthouse. There were probably 100s there all speaking to the audience of what was said..

same for any major event
same after any speech
all are in the same room within yards of each other

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
3. For the dramatic affect?
Tue May 7, 2013, 04:53 PM
May 2013

The love the drama.

Can't wait to read some of the crazy shit Nancy is going to say over the next week.

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