CNN's Pipeline in a big mistake
Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.
I've never understood why CNN's Pipeline subscription service runs cam feeds of the White House with nothing happening or the Golden Gate Bridge (or current weather when there are so many better sources online). You'd think they could show more actual events (I'll write a more detailed critique next year. I have made comments on some of the Lost Remote posts on Pipeline including this one).
But when they do show a cam, you'd think they could at least label it as the correct city. For a while (at least half an hour), they've been running a dark image labeled Los Angeles Midday which is actually the Bay Bridge toll plaza about 400 miles to the north.
The bug from San Francisco station KRON should have given them a clue, but this page of KRON's live cams shows this is the case. I emailed CNN Pipeline through the "your voice" button that they are wrong, but they are still running the wrong label. And given the rivalry between the Bay area and LA, it is not a mistake they should make.
I realize it is the holidays and they are probably understaffed, but...
Update: About 2:45 pm pacific time, they switched the cam feed to OK grass fire footage (and a bit after 3 pm they put the KRON cam up with a proper label - see the bottom image - and continued running it until 5 pm when they switch to the boring blue and red screens of Pipeline Overnight or what they put up instead of running events from earlier in the day. They don't seem to realize it is still early here out west). Maybe they actually read my email.
I'd like to thank Brian at KRON was writing this up.
