There were technical difficulties on tonights broadcast 02 Dec 2008 with the video clip player and the teleprompter. It was refreshing to see Renee read the news from the paper on her desk without the aid of a teleprompter. For a short period the broadcast was nostalgic of times when that's all a newscaster would do. I guess teleprompters were first used in the 1950's? Old school teleprompters weren't even on a screen, you had to roll a piece of paper near a camera and read it.

     What I liked so much about her reading the news off the paper was there were no videos, no sound clips, it was just news. Seeing that degree of separation between entertainment news and how the news was a long time ago makes me wonder how difficult it is to keep your eyes on the camera and read the news paper sitting on the desk in front of you. I noticed she picked the paper up a little in order to kind of make it easier to avert her eyes towards the camera. I think it's easier to give a speech at a podium if you have to look down at what you've written and look back up again. What do you think?