Am i the only one who hates the news scrolls at the bottom of cable news.

[ranosgol]

I know most of you will say you just hate cable new sin general, i agree but those scrolls piss me off, they do not need to have them running all the time it is ridiculous.

[Spiffarino]

1. The most irritating, distracting thing to come along in years.

Isn't Faux responsible for that? I think they were the first to use it full time. :grr:

[NYC Liberal]

2. LOL, me too.

Ellen DeGeneres did a bit on that when she was doing a tour back in 2000.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. I hate them too ...

I hate it when I am reading a news headline on the scroll and then it cuts off once there is a commercial break .

If the scrolls are so important than why not run them " during " the commercial break . :shrug:

[sally343434]

4. They're different when you're wearing sunglasses

Have you noticed? At least when I'm wearing these cheap sunglasses I found on the street one day. When I put them on, the scroll says, "OBEY .... CONSUME .... MARRY & REPRODUCE .... STAY ASLEEP .... WATCH FOX NEWS .... CONFORM ...."

[Misunderestimator]

8. LOL... Same thing happens with polarized sunglasses!

"BUSH IS STRONG... BUSH IS GOD... VOTE KERRY AND DIE"

[KT2000]

5. James Wolcott wrote about them

in Vanity Fair.
he saw the end of a blurb that said "radioactive material has crossed the border into the US"
He freaked and searched the internet to find what was going on and couldn't find anything.
He ended up putting tape over the bottom of his TV screen so he couldn't see the scrolls anymore.

[Zookeeper]

6. I'm a pretty good multi-tasker, but....

I find that if I'm reading the scrolls while trying to listen to the newscast, I end up not fully absorbing either one.

Perhaps that's the point....'just keep people thinking they're getting information when it's really just noise and light.

[Swamp Rat]

7. One of the reasons I do not watch the infotainment news.

Frontline with Bill Moyers and C-SPAN is all that I pay attention to now.

[tibbir]

9. When I'm at my friend's house she sometimes has CNN on (gasp)

and she'll all of a sudden ask me about something that just scrolled by. I can't listen to one thing and read at the same time. It's gotten so bad that the local news show here in the morning has adopted one. Thing is, it takes almost no time to come around full circle. What a joke.