It's about time that network TV got what everybody else has known since Kindergarten: simple pictures make complex concepts easy to understand. Thank you Katie Couric and CBS news for bringing the whiteboard into the news room, and bringing Josh Landis and Mitch Butler along with it.
In CBS News new "Fast Draw" segment (which appears to be in test flight mode for now) Landis and Butler (who met at ABC news) share the whiteboard as they explain concepts everybody "knows" about, but that nobody REALLY gets. Like superdelegates, for example.
In their first 3-minute clip with Katie, they seemed to impress even her with their quick visual explanation about how sometimes a democracy isn't very democratic. Like Katie said, "That was fun".
Good for you, CBS!
(Enjoy the praise, because next time I'm going to critique what's *not* perfect about the session.)
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