{"id":62373,"date":"2019-02-09T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62373"},"modified":"2019-02-09T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T22:03:35","slug":"i-have-a-huge-dose-of-chyrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62373","title":{"rendered":"I have a huge dose of chyrons and a great ouroboros"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — chyrons as news haiku, and various news and docu screengrabs ]
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I’ve described chyrons — those verbal banners in the bottom third or fifth of a TV news screen — as the newsperson’s haiku. Headlines have long served a similar purpose, with their writers, seldom the authors credited with the articles in question, preferring puns to emphasis — puns, the “lowest form of wit” as they are sometimes mistakenly termed, James Joyce qv.<\/p>\n

Chyrons, now — shorter than most headlines, and therefore tighter in their demands — are an art-form that sometimes calls forth subtlety and wit. I love them, not least because they’re visual verbals<\/strong>.. combining the eye-catching quality of the visual with the point-making clarity of the verbal — a double hit.<\/p>\n

Here, then, from today’s haul of yesterday’s chyrons:<\/p>\n

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That’s the killer — a major war<\/strong>. Here are two more for context:<\/p>\n

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And let’s not forget ISIS:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a sporting metaphor — I suppose I should say, both literal and figurative?<\/p>\n

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Two versions of Roger Stone<\/strong>‘s fight:<\/p>\n

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And Dems fighting words<\/strong>, with flying without a pilot<\/strong> as a bonus:<\/p>\n

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CNN for a change, and the tax returns — so many, many fights!<\/p>\n

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Back to MSNBC:<\/p>\n

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Comic strip!<\/p>\n

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And an MRI instance, medicin aat its most inquisitive:<\/p>\n

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Okay, a screengrab from the documentary on the Oslo and Otoya terrorist actions by Anders Breivik<\/strong>, 22 July<\/em><\/a> — Breivik <\/strong>as network cog and Knight Templar:<\/p>\n

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Oh hell, let’s close with two grabs from another docu, Evil Genius<\/em>, first episode, the first grab noting the way a scavenger hunt<\/strong> was part of the bank-heist murder:<\/p>\n

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And the second demonstrating the route the scavenger hunt was designed to take, marked on the map in red — note the arrow at the end of the trail landing up where it had started — a clear and fascinating image of ouroboros<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Too good to miss! And that’s it for now..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — chyrons as news haiku, and various news and docu screengrabs ] . I’ve described chyrons — those verbal banners in the bottom third or fifth of a TV news screen — as the newsperson’s haiku. Headlines have long served a similar purpose, with their writers, seldom the authors credited with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1786,664,526,1753,1793,1314,1047,695,139,98,1479,741,1460,88,91,719,1794,1773,1370,1,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aoc","category-breivik","category-charles-cameron","category-chyron","category-documentary","category-donald-trump","category-isis","category-korea","category-media","category-north-korea","category-ouroboros","category-poetry","category-potus","category-putin","category-russia","category-sports","category-tax","category-templar","category-trump","category-uncategorized","category-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62373"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62417,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62373\/revisions\/62417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}