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.
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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…)
hahahaha! well put!