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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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12 January 2005 - 10:59 am
I heard about this on NPR this morning and just saw it confirmed on STLtoday.com: E! is going to get around the ban on cameras in the Michael Jackson trial by staging daily re-enactments. It looks like they're planning on five 30-minute shows per week and a Saturday wrap-up show. Talk about ridiculous.
Posted by on 12 January 2005 at 11:00 AM
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wow. this could be pioneering a brand new type of reality television. its a real-time made-for-tv movie! now we can watch actors pretending to be real people, doing and saying things that actually happened, the same week they happened. of course, they can always embellish a little bit, right? like making the laywers a bit better looking. maybe rework some of the dialog during the cross-examination. add on a shocking twist ending. people raised on "law and order" have high standards. and lets not forget the human component: the jury. who knows what happens when theyre not in the courtroom? perhaps a sequestered love affair?
I think they may be onto something here.
Posted by michael. on 12 January 2005 - 1:04 PM
I'm surprised that with computer animation they can't just synthesize the court room action and make it look like it really happened.
Posted by rkc on 13 January 2005 - 6:48 PM