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McCain Uses Walter Reed Middle School, Not Army Hospital, as Backdrop

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9/5/2008 6:25 PM
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McCain Uses Walter Reed Middle School, Not Army Hospital, as Backdrop

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This time around, the green that television viewers saw behind McCain was actually the lawn of the Walter Reed Middle High School in North Hollywood, the name of which can be seen faintly in this picture.

While the giant Hibino video screen was probably meant to give all the delegates within the stadium a sense of context for the proceedings, for many it turned out to be a giant distraction for television viewers.

As some posters on this audio visual experts' forum note, the stage designers probably should have thought more about how the background screen would affect television viewers' experience of the speeches during close-up shots since they're the prime audience.

And as for the use of Walter Reed Middle High School's image in the background? Neither the McCain campaign nor the convention organizers could be reached at the time of this posting. Bloggers suspect that the image that was meant to have been projected was the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, which would have made more sense since McCain spent a good deal of time talking about his injuries in Vietnam.

The high school's principal Donna Tobin declined to comment about the use of the school's image, but issued this statement, suggesting that she wasn't happy about it, on the school's blog:

“It has been brought to the school’s attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention. Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school’s picture an endorsement of any political party or view.”

Nevertheless, it's probably the McCain campaign that's having the last laugh.

Green screen or no, television audience measurement firm Nielsen says that the final night of the Republican National Convention drew 500,000 more viewers than Obama's spectacularly-staged nomination speech did: More than 38.9 million people watched McCain's speech while 38.4 million viewers watched Obama on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

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9/5/2008 6:26 PM

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The SUPPPORT THE TROOPS PARTY does not know what Walter Reed Army Hospital looks like.

Anonymous Coward
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9/5/2008 6:33 PM

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Epic fail.

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