With the nation just nine weeks away from the culmination of the very very long presidential campaigns, we are in the middle of the nominating conventions which leave much to digest and critique.
CNN boasted being the only cable news network to broadcast full coverage of the first of the two conventions, claiming their expertise as the "best political team on television." However, how much is too much information or too much talk?
As a news junkie, I can sit through the punditry, the emotional yet stubborn arguments. Even CNN's coverage of "unconventional" moments. Like the woman with the toilet bowl on one of her hats. Or, the fact that the Pepsi logo (the stadium was paid millions of dollars to bear the Pepsi name for 20 years) resembles the Obama 'hope' logo. But, what about the 'Sound Meter?'
Yep, they had a sound meter measuring the noise in the convention hall. A green to yellow to red meter on the left hand side of the screen. Very prominent. Distracting and, at least for this viewer, the cause for a dizzying sensation ending up in an occasional headache. We have a ticker, factoids, talking heads, enough to keep our eyes busy. Do we really need to know how loud or not it is in the convention center?
Not to mention that the meter never appeared to be accurate. It was, at best, moving up and down at the same rate and rarely ever stepped into the red zone - even when the crowd was going WILD over a speaker's moving moment.
Get rid of it, CNN. It is just too much!
Well, it is now week two and the republicans have their turn. They seem to be the more conservative of the two groups, so I'm not sure if it will be much louder.
Maybe the sound meter will just reflect the chatter everwhere over the turmoil that is surrounding John McCain's recent VP choice.
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