"MAKING THE MOOST" OF IT
[aired repeatedly throughout April, 2001] |
| ANCHOR #1: |
How do you titillate an audience without showing anything?
Or without at least resorting to full frontal pixelation? |
| ANCHOR #2: |
CNN's Jeanne Moos gets it right on the DOT! |
| [SHOW CLIP FROM "TheWorkingGirl.com"] |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
There's so much blurring and fuzzing going on that media
professor, Robert Thompson, wonders tongue-in-cheek about
its effects on our youth. |
| Mr. THOMPSON: |
Seeing an actual naked human being for the first time on
their wedding night and going, "What's that? You're in focus.
What's wrong with you?" |
| [SHOW CLIP FROM "AUSTIN POWERS"] |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
Austin Powers hid behind the nutcracker, but the technique
we like to dote on is the DOT. |
| [SHOW CLIP FROM WILLIAM KENNEDY SMITH RAPE TRIAL] |
| DIANNE SAWYER (to the alleged rape victim): |
...sitting behind that (blue dot) everyone saw on television... |
| Alleged rape victim: |
I'm not a blue blob, I'm a person. |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
Pity the poor dot operator trying to keep the alleged victim
in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial covered. CNN opted
to make the dot bigger and inexplicably blue... |
| [SHOW CLIP FROM "TheWorkingGirl.com"] |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
...a decade later the "blue blob" has come along way. |
| V.O. (male): |
...We put a little bit of glean on the "sex dot"... |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
Steve Marchand spent days dotting the racy parts of a documentary
by James Whitney called "TheWorkingGirl.com." They
settled on the "seX dot" after rejecting the "disco ball"
and a marbelized dot. Maybe you think dotting is sexy and
it's titillating... |
| STEVE MARCHAND: |
It's a drag. |
| [SHOW CLIP FROM "TheWorkingGirl.com"] |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
The dot in the documentary was way too small by CNN's standards,
so we dotted the dot. |
| [JEANNE MOOS ATTEMPTS TO DOT A CLIP FROM "TheWorkingGirl.com"] |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
Oops... I'm a little slow on the dot (she laughs). What
we should be covering up is that couch, or that chair... |
| [SHOW CLIP FROM "TheWorkingGirl.com"] |
| JEANNE MOOS: |
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York. |
