RNC and CNN

So, I tend to think of CNN as being a fairly liberal station by American standards. I was watching the RNC speeches on CNN last night, and I kept noticing the camera work. During John McCain's speech, for instance, he started talking about the things that the Republicans are doing for the children. Even before the words were uttered, the CNN camera was showing shots of children of multiple ethnicities in the crowd.

Later, when McCain talked about the contribution of the men and women in service, CNN already had a shot of a man in uniform walking through the crowd of the convention hall.

As McCain was saying, "we will not listen to a disingenuous filmmaker", CNN already had Michael Moore on screen so that we could see the reaction in real-time.

And I was thinking to myself: these guys must have McCain's speech, and they're directing their camera work to provide more visual punch to McCain's words. Either that, or someone is editing really quickly during the broadcast delay.

And I wondered: how is this different from, say, Leni Riefenstahl?

There was another interesting shot. During a mildly-rousing moment of the speech, the camera was trained on a man who suddenly decided to stand and applaud that particular point. And I thought: that's convenient. That they just happened to have a camera on that person, just as they decided to rise. It was awfully convenient that the guy was perfectly framed in the camera's field of vision.

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I'm depressed by the latest Electoral Vote predictions.

I think I'm a bit squicked about what's going on on blogACTIVE.

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First bimbos? Is that it?