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This just came across the CARR-L mailing list re: the hurricane:

I just heard the woman on CNN say their correspondent could send news on Katrina from the French Quarter despite lack of satellite signal "with the use of a new technology called 'F. T. P.'"
I'm sure the lady reading that script thought this was some new, fancy technology, not one that's been around for 30 years.

Posted by Jake on 08/29/05 @ 10:19 AM
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stratboy said on 08/31/05 @ 09:13 AM:
Broadcast journalists who are "attractive" enough to make it to CNN probably don't realize that computers are more than typewriters plugged into a tv.....

(My degree is in broadcast journalism, but I couldn't bring myself to work in the industry...)

Cooper said on 09/25/05 @ 06:45 PM:
hahahaha! well put!

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