Have you ever been watching your favorite news program only to be distracted by the scrolling ticker at the bottom? Though it's intended to update and inform, it has a tendency of backfiring in that the viewer must decide upon what it wants to watch: the anchorman telling the stories or the scrolling text at the bottom that scrolls just a little too slow to be read fluently and a little too fast to be totally ignored.
Being a person who has a hard time concentrating on two things at once, I am absolutely unable to concentrate on both simultaneously. Just the other night I was attempting to watch the news and I could hardly focus on Larry King's seemingly-constricting suspenders! Unfortunately, my choice was to focus either on Mr. King or the story at the bottom telling me about the man who won the lottery twice in the same year his wife was found stuck on the toilet. This is most disheartening.
However, some argue that the scrolling ticker at the bottom helps to better inform the viewers. I would counter this arguments with the fact that if I needed to know something, I'm pretty sure Bill O'Reilly would have told me (seeing as how he is "looking out for [me]").
What I would suggest is a compromise between the pro-ticker and anti-ticker groups. For those concerned with keeping abreast with all the latest headlines, we would have a ticker only channel on CNN's alternate "headline news" channel. On the regular CNN channel we could simply continue business as usual – only without the ticker. Just a suggestion.
This post contributed by Daniel Diffenderfer.
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