CNN ditches the crawl, adds something else

I remember watching the Bloomberg channel back in HS and college pre 2001 and there were news-tickers extant before then, even if they weren't on CNN.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that they "are another reason why so many people have ADD", though. I wouldn't push too far in that direction as one starts to sound a little Tom Cruisey--

http://www.entertonement.com/clips/8643/Tom-Cruise/Scientology/Drugs/You-Have-to-Evaluate-Like-I-Have

but certainly one shouldn't jump to conclusions unnecessarily either.

I'm old enough to remember CNN before the crawl. What always bugged me about it was that if you flipped over to CNN just before they went to a commercial, they would cut off the info halfway thru something & I was always missing a name or other revelant info, then you had to wait til they came back to get the rest of it. A minor complaint, I know, but it was a little annoying. I'm kind of suprised they kept it this long, most things on tv change faster than that.

Bring back the crawl. Its better because sometimes your just not interested in the story or more comments from the viewers.

I did not know that, im 16, an i found that quite suprsing. I actually read a wiki on it. Though that is not the point of the article, here it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_ticker

I don't mind the crawl, i see it when i see it, but having the whole screen for my viewing pleasure with minimal interference is better

I'm 20 and also had no idea the news crawl started on 9/11. I suppose you can now go to Headline News for the equivalent of a crawl, but I'm a fan of snippets news being thrown at me 200 times per hour. If something seems interesting, I can always look it up later that day.

In general, I liked the crawl, although I did end up rolling my eyes at a lot of the "news" they sent through it. When distracted at the gym, the CNN crawl was always something to look at that wasn't a sitcom or the Big Ten Network (don't get me started on the existence of the Big Ten Network).

I'm 26 and I can't remember cable news before the crawl.

I also didn't realize that the crawl started after 9/11. Thanks for teaching me something TV Squad.

How about a screenshot?