London 7/7: First Time Using Phone Video

Yesterday’s cameraphone video from the London underground “was the first time several U.S. television executives could recall using video taken from a cellphone during coverage of a major story, no doubt a harbinger of things to come,” the AP reports. “It was a clip that we used no more than two, three thousand times,” joked John Moody, Fox News Channel senior vice president…

> Also: Moody tells the LA Times: “It looked to me like a goldfish aquarium. Right now, the pictures themselves are not sharp enough to be used on a daily basis. But when you’ve only got one picture of something, you can make vast allowances for the quality.”

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