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Hologram Will.i.am Infinitely Less Punchable

The elections must be an exciting time for the news networks because they get to trot out all manner of gadgets and broadcast wizardry that they'll probably never get to use again. It's like they got to go shopping at Skymall for just one day! Fox News had Bill Hemmer's Minority Report-like touchscreen board, and NBC showcased a "virtual studio" wherein poor Anne Curry stood in a green room while some producer whipped stats around her. But the neatest—and most useless—of these studio tricks was CNN's hologram projections, wherein reporters and others were given the Princess Leia treatment. More »

10:00 AM on Wed Nov 5 2008
By Lucas Jensen
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Latest by Lucas Jensen: @Lucas Jensen: That would be "past" not "passed." I am terrible about that. more »

Be warned, TV news junkies: CNN is using Daughtry's cover of Foreigner's "Feels Like The First Time" to entice people to tune into its political coverage starting today. The cover will also appear on the forthcoming reissue of Daughtry's self-titled album, no doubt because Columbia Records wants the 4.2 million people who have already bought the damn thing to feel like buying the new version will actually be their "first time" plunking down $23 for it. [Variety]

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CNN Reclassifies Black Crowes As "Grunge," Remains Blissfully Ignorant Of The Concept Of "Irony"

Presenting two CNN anchors who, in the sliver of time that they're allotted to discuss one of the day's biggest soft-news stories, find themselves musing over the true meanings of an official statement from Maxim that they haven't seen. And said statement is regarding a review they haven't read. And it covers a band they're completely unfamiliar with (although they do know that Kurt Cobain isn't the Black Crowes' lead singer)! Who said that there were no good examples of journalism out there in the world? [HT: Gawker]

6:20 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by The Mozfather: This must be how residents of Darfur, Kosovo and pretty much all of the rest of the world feel every day when they watch CNN. (Of course, when they can watch CNN.) more »

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As It Turns Out, Gene Simmons Didn't Rank Much Higher

A bad day for former Kiss member Vinnie Vincent: First he gets dissed by the Supreme Court, and then CNN.com decides that, in terms of importance, he's somewhere between a former concentration-camp guard and a dildo. More »

6:29 PM on Mon Oct 2 2006
By Brian Raftery
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WORLD'S MOST GENERIC BAND EARNS CNN'S MOST GENERIC HEADLINE Seriously, isn't there a war going on somewhere?

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