I was watching the news last night because Mrs. Cat had taken over the computer and I was too lazy to get up and change the channel after Castle went off (but the remote is way over therrrrrre!). The anchor droids were ecstatic because they’d managed to find some local connection to the Swine Flu brouhaha currently rooting through the airwaves, and got to show scary pictures of people coming into our airport wearing surgical masks.We had the Closed Captioning on because the litter was asleep, and I noticed that whoever is in charge of it really wasn’t very good at keeping up. Since I know the vapid piles of clothing behind the anchor desk are just reading from a TelePrompTer, wouldn’t it make sense to load that script into a scroll across the bottom of the screen? Someone’s already typed it up once; why duplicate the effort? You might miss some “light-hearted banter” in between segments, but have you really missed anything?
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