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Friday March 5th 2004 05:50 PM PST

The most amusing thing i saw all day was the announcement of Martha Stewart's trial. I could really care less which way this ones goes, but watching the news vultures was hands down the best thing on TV today. Here's their problem. They have people in the court room as observers, but those people have no recording devices, cell phones, cameras, pda's etc. So they have no way to get the word out which way the 4 counts went. Meanwhile across the street there are satellite uplinks and about 500 cameras running.

How do you get the message quickly from the courtroom to the cameras?

Well this was laughable. The cameras are focused on the court stairs. Suddenly a horde of people start running out on the stairs with various sheets of green and red paper. Between the various hand signals and what looked like morse code there was almost no intelligible message. The reporter on MSN NBC has a posterboard in front of him with a marker. As the message came across the street he attempted to mark which way each count had gone. Within 30 seconds he had actually marked EVERY box on the poster, correcting and re-correcting his work and then crossing out and changing and crossing out and changing. Meanwhile he's trying to keep eye contact with the camera, and then look across the street to keep up with the information being screamed at him. For 5 minutes TV was actually funny.

for all these dumbasses did today, they never thought it might just be simple enough to get a few people that knew sign language.