{"id":4357,"date":"2009-03-16T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/senate-webcast-elicits-jokes-discontent-anger\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T04:08:00","slug":"senate-webcast-elicits-jokes-discontent-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/senate-webcast-elicits-jokes-discontent-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate webcast elicits jokes, discontent, anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Though some of it is being expressed in a joking manner, there appears to be some serious disappointment, beyond what I personally expressed<\/a> earlier today, with the Senate\u2019s first attempt at video webcasting.<\/p>\n

The single-camera webcast, unveiled today, shows the desks of only nine of 42 senators, and it shows them from behind. That prompted a series of jokes on the Senate floor today, the New Mexico Independent<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does create the impression out there that all senators are bald,\u201d said Albuquerque Democratic Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino<\/a>, whose head appears shiny in the video.<\/p>\n

Sen. Steve Fischmann<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, got in on the joking with this quip: <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard that there\u2019s already a raging discussion about how much advertising space might cost on top of Ortiz y Pino\u2019s head,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve already put together a subsidiary to sell advertising there for $2.10 per minute\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut senators\u2019 campaign messages, Fischmann said, could get even better exposure if planted on his own, bigger, balder noggin,\u201d the NMI article states.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy head, it\u2019s closer to the camera and (the ads) will be bigger and they\u2019ll cost $3.50,\u201d Fischmann said.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more from the senators, so you should check out the NMI article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Journalists more critical<\/span><\/p>\n

Journalists were harsher in their criticism of the lone camera.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I don’t know what you were hoping to see, but I was kind of hoping to see more than a handful of (the backs of) senators. A pan across the room every once and a while would have been nice as well, maybe a zoom in on the person talking,\u201d The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s Kate Nash wrote on her blog<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to sound unappreciative or anything, because this is a step in the right direction, but the camera really doesn\u2019t show everything it could have, and should have.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Santa Fe Reporter\u2019s Dave Maass was especially harsh on his newspaper\u2019s blog<\/a>. He latched on to the fact that it was rookie Sen. John Sapien<\/a>, D-Corrales, who introduced the amendment to the webcasting resolution cutting the cameras<\/a> from three to one.<\/p>\n

Maass took issue with a news release sent out by Senate Democrats claiming that Sapien \u201chelps to pass Web streaming in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBull-hooey!\u201d Maass wrote. \u201cSapien had five amendments lined up to force a 2\/3 supermajority vote on a simple bill to use the technology the Senate had already purchased to Web cast the Senate floor session for all the state to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSapien\u2019s seat isn\u2019t even in the frigging frame! \u2026 Citizens, rise-up: You\u2019ve been scammed,\u201d he wrote. \u201c\u2026 New headline: SENATOR SAPIEN HELPS TO PASS SELF-SERVING CRAPPY WEB STREAMING IN THE SENATE.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPS. Don\u2019t you love that \u2018not an official record\u2019 disclosure. This is because New Mexico Senators believe they are masters of space and time. They can vote to alter their record of reality,\u201d Maass wrote at the end of his posting.<\/p>\n

Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though some of it is being expressed in a joking manner, there appears to be some serious disappointment, beyond what I personally expressed earlier today, with the Senate\u2019s first attempt at video webcasting. The single-camera webcast, unveiled today, shows the desks of only nine of 42 senators, and it shows them from behind. That prompted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}