Fox News debuts bizarre, giant tablets in its outrageous new newsroom

[hue]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4812630/fox-news-shepard-smith-news-deck

If you can't make the news better, make it bigger

Fox News has just unveiled a breathtakingly ridiculous newsroom, complete with novelty-sized Windows-based touchscreens, a Twitter wall, and a wannabe Minority Report-style display, which it hopes will connect it with generations of viewers who use smartphones and apps.

In a video that could be mistaken for a College Humor or Saturday Night Live parody, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith walks viewers through the network's new setup, which includes workstations with 55-inch touchscreen monitors. In the video, journalists swipe through pages and apps, presumably collecting information for live reporting. "We call these BATs," Smith notes. "Big area touchscreens."

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Bonafide Nutters!!

[sharp_stick]

1. BATS

big ass tablets that can be sent to the home viewer at a moments notice. I can't wait until the first intern has his backscreen spankwire session fronted by accident to the Hannity show.

[bunnies]

2. hahahahaha!!!

[mattclearing]

3. And they have lower resolution than an iPad.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/10/08/fox-news-new-giant-microsoft-touch-screens-have-fewer-pixels-than-an-ipad

They are basically big dumb props.

They can display four tweets at a time! That's less than a four-inch iPhone!

Imagine sitting up close to something four times as big as, but with lower resolution than, a standard computer monitor.

It's just sad.