Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I''m watching Channel Four news (anyone else find Jon Snow weirdly attractive?); specifically their coverage of the MTAS data leak. Leaving aside the technical aspect of it, I couldn't stop laughing at the way they chose to generate visual content for this story of unintended viewing of a website - by creating an Excel spreadsheet with loads of dummy data in it, and filming someone scrolling up and down it.

I suppose it saves money they can then use to make shlocky "documentaries"!

1 comment:

Ian said...

I'm sorry to pour cold water on your scorn, but it was apparently an Excel spreadsheet that was accidentally placed on the website.

I agree that the scrolling was unnecessary though and typical second-rate journalism though ;-)