TV 5 Ways Producers Get Us To Watch News

Last night may have been the biggest, and the best, night of news that we’ve had in a long time. Unfortunately, though, it only takes about 30 seconds to say, “Barack Obama won.” So what do the announcers talk about for the 8 hours leading up to that? Who knows.

In the never-ending idiot-fest that is network news, producers thought up the idea that having Black-Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am. speak with Anderson Cooper via hollogram would be something interesting for the viewers. Sure we’re talking about it the next day, but a holographic Will I.Am, really CNN? We may have come a long way in how news is delivered, but there is still work to do. Read on to see this “feat of journalism” and our other top five lame network ideas producers are using to get more people to watch the news.