2000jan03. One of our local network loser stations cut to a short-statured reporter in the midst of a Santa Clara new year’s party. She started rattling off Y2k stats from a prepared sheet of paper while the “partying” crowd behind her became more and more boisterous. As the look on her face grew exponentially irritated, she was slowly swallowed by the crowd ... for about twenty seconds all you could see or hear were the happy, waving-at-the-camera partygoers before someone back at home base finally cut away ...
It was the most beautiful thing on TV I’ve seen in a long time.