In the runup to Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers were treated to several official press conferences given by the governors of NJ and NY and the mayor of NYC. As I watched Cuomo or Bloomberg or Christie sharing official news, I kept waiting for the graphics of swirls and the ticker of running commentary to yield to a full-screen picture of these guys' faces. But that never happened.
Just seems interesting to me that a press conference from a government official doesn't rate high enough to jettison (momentarily of course) the barrage of motion graphics that generally fill our screens. Here are 4 screenshots.
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How do we explain this? I was wondering if maybe the feed from the press conferences are just "too SD" for our brave new HD world? Or do the producers really fear we'll dive for our remotes the moment we lose that ominous cartoon swirl we take to be a true picture of the storm? Or is it the footage of rainwater pouring over walls that is simply too sexy to lose even for a few minutes? What do you think? Why doesn't a governor get to fill the TV screen? I mean, Cuomo's not a bad looking guy...
