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September 15, 2002
Doing "The Crawl"

You know "the crawl" -- that little trailer of text that scrolls along the bottom of a newscast, essentially letting you have two cipherlike news-experiences at once?

Apparently, Fox crawls at 115 words per minute, while CNN and MSNBC crawl at 105 words per minute.

Posted by Clive Thompson at September 15, 2002 05:29 PM

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Did you know MTV uses the crawl to post email reactions to their videos? I wonder what it would be like if they used the technique on CNN -- have they?

(Here's a site about the MTV technique; I don't know how to HTML it. http://www.videodesignsoftware.com/software/EmailToAir.html)

Posted by: Emily Nussbaum at September 15, 2002 6:04 PM

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