Fox News Is So Good At Journalism They Don’t Even Need Desks Anymore
Fox News discovered the internet! Let's watch what happens now.
Meet the “Fox News Deck” — a series of enormous and unwieldy 55-inch Microsoft touchscreen tablets that Fox believe will “revolutionise” the news.
The office redesign was unveiled in a surreal promotional video uploaded to their website overnight, introduced by orange-faced anchor Shepard Smith. “[We’ll be] using brand new tools to track developing stories and bring them to your screen as quickly as possible,” he explains. In real terms? They will still be doing a terrible job, but now they’ll be doing it BIGGER!
The redesign — inspired by Fox’s recent discovery of the internet — also involves a 38-foot-long video wall that can be manipulated with a cutting edge hand-held device (which functions and looks suspiciously like a regular remote control). “I can take this lady who’s been evacuating from a hurricane zone and move it over here,” Smith says, as if that is a normal thing to say.
“We’re gonna sift through that information, we’re gonna find out what’s true, and we’re gonna let them know,” says senior producer Jonathan Glenn, whose team was apparently doing none of those things before.
According to Mashable, the touchscreens cost the network about $US8000 a pop. Meanwhile at the BBC, they don’t even have proper iPads yet.
