By The New Yorker August 12, 2008 Chicago At a post-Presidential forum party thrown by Media Matters, an excellent site devoted to monitoring broadcast wingnuttery and the like, Gina Cooper gets up on a windowsill to give a little speech.
A young follower had managed to equip a minivan with satellite television receivers and radio antennae to monitor broadcasts.
Walk a little farther and you come to a mock 1950s-style diner, where a television monitor broadcasts a staged news video about a drunken driver injuring his date on prom night.
(There was also a short-wave radio, which he was using to monitor broadcasts from Moscow, in order to learn the Russian attitude toward Vietnam. Christiane once said that "Stanley would be happy with eight tape recorders and one pair of pants").
Around the stage, blinking monitors broadcast shadows and rain.
The monitor broadcast the slushy sound of his heartbeat.
UniqFEED (on a different note) monitors broadcasted games to tell advertisers and players how long they're featured in the feed.
RTÜK, the Turkish state agency which monitors broadcast material, frequently censors LGBT content.
Andrew Tyndall, who monitors broadcast news from ABC, NBC, and CBS, has some numbers which starkly show Bernie's Rodney Dangerfield problem.
Everything from logistics to farming, military surveillance, telecoms, weather monitoring, TV broadcasts and much more rely on satellites.
