Your impression when tuning in to CNN's The Situation Room for the first time is likely to be, "Geez, there's a lot going on here." There is. And much of it involves technologies familiar to internet
regulars, but mostly unheard of in the context of TV newscasts. Launched in August and modeled after the White House Situation Room -- where presidents confer with advisers on fast-moving matters of
utmost importance -- CNN's Situation Room has become something of an R&D lab for news-gathering technology.
Read the whole story at Wired, September 19, 2005 »
