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Re: "i.am.FIRST -- Science is Rock and Roll" airs August 14th
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
No, you have every right to complain about this omission.
I also noted this quick scroll during the credits. It went by so fast, I didn't even realize the link WASN'T to the FIRST website!
If I recall, the recent CNN special was also devoid of any direct "For More Information" graphic displaying the FIRST website during the show.
It's like a cooking show displaying the finished product without giving out the details of the recipe!
Regardless of the quality of the program presented, not giving viewers a DIRECT source of further information is completely and utterly asinine.
In other news, Kate Pilotte sent FIRST suppliers this link to watch the show after the fact - http://iam-fan.com/?p=1449, which links to YouTube videos of the show. Hurray for that! |
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely be checking it out at my leisure. As far as the complaints of no posting of the FIRST website, have you ever wrote one down? I mean, how many times have you seen websites in commercials? How many times have you used that web address to find out more? If I saw the special and they posted the link in huge font 5 times throughout the show for 30 seconds at a time, I wouldn't have wrote it down once. Its not in my nature. I'd remember FIRST and look it up later. I think that is the case with most people. In other words, yes it was an oversight. It was something that should have been included at some point. They could have reached some more people had they included it as I'm sure somebody would have actually wrote it down. They could have also got more people by having a smart phone bar code appear on screen that sent them to the site. I'd argue the second one would actually reach more people these days. Though they reached less people then they could have, its not the end of the world. I would hardly dock them for this oversight. If they don't correct it for the next one, then you have full right to complain. As far as a first time goes, that really is a minor detail in the grand scheme of things.
Jason
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