Peter from Kickit (a site that promotes an interesting combination of activities) e-mails on my observation that TV news needs to show fingers typing on a keyboard in every story related to the internet:
We call this "re-routing the encryption", possibly from a movie where that was the explanation for the high speed, noisy typing. We will walk by the PC display at Best Buy just so we can pound away on a random keyboard and claim that we are "re-routing the encryption".
On a recent trip to the UK we noticed that every story in every TV newscast includes at least two interviews. Seriously. Protesters outside Buckingham Palace? Let's talk to a nearby tourist and a cab driver. Sweltering heat on the beach at Brighton? Let's talk to a mother of 3 and a dog walker. They could only fit 6 or 7 stories in a 30-minute newscast because they spent so much time jabbing microphones at the faces of passers-by.
I'd personally rather watch a few seconds of someone re-routing the encryption.
A tough choice.
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