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BasketofPuppies · Dec 20, 2005, 09:10 PM

Wolf Blitzer is in Washington and he's in The Situation Room.

Jack Cafferty is in New York, yet somehow he is also in The Situation Room.

Zain Verjee is in Atlanta, some distance from Washington and New York, but she manages to be in The Situation Room with Wolf and Jack.

Not only that, Wolf Blitzer is constantly telling me that I'm in The Situation Room. And I'm in Chicago!

This is a big room. How do I get out of it?

SpaceMonkey · Dec 20, 2005, 09:33 PM

That's the point. The Situation Room is "your world raw, unfiltered and live" because it uses "the newest innovative online resources."

I think Wolf just wanted to buy a giant screen to watch his pr0n. I hate that frickin' screen. Why should I care that I'm watching the news on a giant monitor (with those annoying lines on it) when it's always going to be the same size on my TV?

EDIT: They should put Wolf and Anderson Cooper together to make a show called "The Situation Room 360." They could put wall-to-wall giant monitors in a complete circle around the two of them. The camera would be mounted on the desk in the middle and just continuously pan around in circles. So it would be like Wolf and Anderson were sitting in the basement smoking pot on "That 70's Show", except their pot is really The Truth and they're making Truth Brownies for all of us.

BasketofPuppies · 10:34 PM

I think those are multiple monitors, often displaying a single picture. Hence the lines.

It's one of the things CNN is doing to get younger people to watch hard news. Even when there isn't something particularly interesting being shown, you can show it from multiple angles, or show multiple, related (or not) pictures to make something dull appear exciting.

Gotta do something to get people to watch since CNN dropped the partisan bickering talk shows and made it policy to not cover stories of missing, previously unknown, cute white girls.

But you haven't told me how to get out of The Situation Room.

RAILhead · Dec 20, 2005, 10:09 PM

Change the channel?

BasketofPuppies · Dec 20, 2005, 10:17 PM

Then I won't be watching other people in The Situation Room, but it won't get me out of The Situation Room.

I don't even remember entering The Situation Room. How did I get here? And how do I get out?

SpaceMonkey · Dec 20, 2005, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

But you haven't told me how to get out of The Situation Room.

Sorry, only Wolf holds the key.

BasketofPuppies · Dec 20, 2005, 10:31 PM

So we're all his prisoners?

No wonder its ratings are high. It's a captive audience.

alphamatrix · Dec 20, 2005, 11:18 PM

yeah, its multiple monitors, I wish they would calibrate them individually, most of the time theres a good bit of variation between screens.
They do this rather comical bit where they 'check in with what the blogs are saying'. While the 'reporting' annoys me, initially they were using a nice OS X setup with dual cinema displays. But, alas, with the situation room, that is gone, now they mostly just go through screen grabs of sites in acrobat on a windows machine... its ugly.
The Situation Room is probably my favorite CNN program. Lou Dobbs is fun to laugh at because he harps on and on about illegal immigration. Then theres AC 360º. It seems they are targeting the same demographic as those horrid McDonalds commercials with young white hipster types and the pinky finger thing... Wendy's is targeting same, but I don't think they did as good a job in casting. Anyway, I cannot stand such things, which means I have a strong dislike for Anderson Cooper. They shouldn't have given Aaron Brown the boot.

SpaceMonkey · Dec 20, 2005, 11:49 PM

"The Situation Room," By The Numbers

flabasha · Dec 21, 2005, 03:58 AM

And, as with everything in the Situation Room, this is all "Happening Now!"

Dakar · Dec 21, 2005, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

"The Situation Room," By The Numbers

Say one thing for the show: It's going to make for an awesome drinking game.

Get your news and your drink on!

BasketofPuppies · Dec 23, 2005, 02:11 PM

Hey, Zain Verjee must know how to get out of The Situation Room. Earlier in the day, she spends three hours in the CNN Center (read: not in The Situation Room) co-anchoring Your World Today.

Maybe she can help us.

wdlove · Dec 23, 2005, 02:25 PM

Easy just don't watch.

BasketofPuppies · Dec 23, 2005, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by wdlove

Easy just don't watch.

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Then I won't be watching other people in The Situation Room, but it won't get me out of The Situation Room.

...

TheoCryst · Dec 23, 2005, 07:09 PM

Have you tried clicking your heels together three times while chanting "There's no place like home..."

But wait... home is also in the Situation Room... Try chanting "the Situation Room sucks"

TheoCryst · Dec 23, 2005, 07:09 PM

huh? how did this get here?

BasketofPuppies · Apr 3, 2006, 03:44 AM

Well, it looks like someone figured out how Zain Verjee was getting out of The Situation Room for three hours every weekday because soon she'll be stuck in there full time like the rest of us.

BlueSky · Apr 3, 2006, 11:29 AM

WOLF BLITZER, HOST:

You're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where news and information from around the world arrive in one place simultaneously.

Awesome concept. It's almost as if it was a...a 24 hour cable news channel.

Nicko · Apr 3, 2006, 12:34 PM

Does Wolf Blitzer BLINK? Infact, I don't think he is human...

BlueSky · Apr 3, 2006, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Nicko

Does Wolf Blitzer BLINK? Infact, I don't think he is human...

If one listens long enough to his repetitive droning, creative sentence structure and complete lack of an observable personality, one can only come to one conclusion: he is my first wife.

But yeah, I agree, he seems like an alien.