Holy Moses!

Or should I say, Holo- Moses?

Obviously, I'm not very good at puns, so let's get straight to the point.

I was a little creeped out by CNN's coverage of the US Presidential Election this morning.

And it had nothing to do with Obama's victory (He should have won, and he did. Thank you America).

Rather, it was the fancy pantsy Hologram Interviews that were being conducted.

Yep, picture the famous scene of Princess Leia delivering a hologram message in the movie Star Wars and you get my drift.



News anchor Wolf Blitzer was interviewing "virtual" correspondent Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago. And no, she wasn't set up at some election site somewhere in the state, but beamed as a 3-D life-sized image into CNN's election centre in New York.

Now I used to work for CNN and know the network prides itself as being at the fore-front of technology as far as news coverage is concerned.

But hologram TV?

One - It's not very relevant, as it takes the reporter away from where the news is happening. How to show and tell?

Two - Isn't it a little 'out there' in the Star-Trekky sort of way to be taken seriously in news?

Three - C'mon, wouldn't you rather someone more enigmatic be beamed as a hologram, like, say, Yoda?