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May 26, 2012

Breaking News: OMG, those weren't holograms on CNN! - VIDEO

by Bob Sassone, posted Nov 6th 2008 3:08PM

CNNI think one of the weirdest things that happened on election night were the hologram thingies that CNN used. It was OK when they showed an image of a building, but it got really strange when Anderson Cooper interviewed will.i.am (almost as weird as me having to write someone's name as will.i.am). Cooper was standing there in the studio, looking off to the side, waiting for am (is that his last name? Or is he one name, like Twiggy?) to pop up in front of him like on Star Trek. The whole thing looked kinda cool but also kinda cheesy, and it was funny when Cooper introduced the interview by saying "we're joined now via hologram..."

Now comes the scandal: they weren't even holograms!

The CBC is reporting that the images can't be considered holograms because the anchors (Cooper and Wolf Blitzer, when he interviewed Jessica Yellin) weren't looking at the images in front of them, it was only empty space in front of them. That's probably why we saw them looking offstage a few times. There was no image in front of them to look at, just an image viewers could see at home.

If you're interested, the images CNN had are called tomograms. There will be a test tomorrow so make sure you study these terms.

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Will

What's the big deal? At least it was something interesting to look at & a deversion over the same old "Obama express" info, with every update stating by how much Obama was winning. Sometimes, there's no pleasing folks.

November 08 2008 at 2:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan

Wow, such snark from the commenters. I thought it was a relevant post about the technology being used by a _news_ organization. News organizations are supposed to report truthfully and to not misrepresent the facts (yes, I know this doesn't always happen).

In this case, CNN misrepresented the technology by calling it a "hologram." Being clear about what it is may help to avoid future confusion on the part of the audience.

November 07 2008 at 5:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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StillBash

Problem is Bob is about a day late with this. You could read about it almost anywhere else on the web already and in a way that didn't treat CNN as if they were really lying or the readers as if they actually believed Blitzer and Cooper actually looked at ANYTHING in front of them.

Anyone with half a brain knew that those images were added into the already recorded image later on like the 10 yard line in Football.

It's just that - Bob writes for the lowest common denominator and by that insults my intelligence on a daily basis. I could actually produce my own little Daily Show like program where I simply collect all past posts Bob wrote and call him out on all the items that were written up better elsewhere and/or proved false because Bob does a total amount of ZILCH research.

November 09 2008 at 12:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Derek

This just in! Keanu Reeves can dodge bullets and jump off buildings! Film at 11.

You realize that Bob gets paid by the word, right? So, the more inane posts he makes, the more money AOL wastes.

November 06 2008 at 11:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kaycee

This is the dumbest post I have ever read on this site.

November 06 2008 at 11:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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KIrsch

Thank you for agreeing with me I call the poster out on this and everyone flips out and votes my comment down but you also agree with me that anyone with half a brain should know that its not a hologram jees people

November 07 2008 at 2:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joey Geraci

Wait! So CNN hadn't perfected refracted forcefield and matter-energy conversion technology! Surprise of the night!

November 06 2008 at 9:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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KIrsch

Thank you for agreeing with me I call the poster out on this and everyone flips out and votes my comment down but you also agree with me that anyone with half a brain should know that its not a hologram jees people

November 07 2008 at 2:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joey Geraci

For about half a second on Tuesday, I wondered if Wolf was seeing the same thing we were seeing. But only half a second. It became clear pretty quickly that this was a video effect, nothing more, and the use of the term "hologram" is so inaccurate, it's not even funny.

November 07 2008 at 10:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tozmervo

Further evidence as to why I limit my exposure to 24 Hr Cable News to The Daily Show.

November 06 2008 at 6:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KIrsch

c'mon you guys seriously thought it was a real hologram jees you guys are stupid

November 06 2008 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rocketboy_X

Wow, a Fine Upstanding news organization like CNN lied to us? No way!


November 06 2008 at 4:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KIrsch

Please bob stop wasting our time with idiotic (I probably misspelled that word so know I look like an idiot too) posts, what are you going to call the back to the future movies a scandal because no one really went back in time? Stop wasting my time with this stupidity

November 06 2008 at 4:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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khamel

didn't we already know this? there were 36 cameras and they went into a computer and we saw the result.

November 06 2008 at 3:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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pacheco

I'm with you. We knew that they weren't "holograms." It's like revealing that -- gasp! -- the weatherman is actually in front of a green screen!

November 06 2008 at 3:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
christopher_martone

Wait a minute -- a green screen??!! You mean they aren't flying in space over America??

November 06 2008 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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