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Can you write the ticker for Bar Karma’s news channel? Posted by Jim_Goldblum | FEBRUARY 1, 2011

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If you think 24-hour cable news encourages anxiety and panic, wait ‘til you see what they watch at Bar Karma. Each week the staff and patrons turn on the news to see how everyday choices can have disastrous—and possibly universe-shattering—consequences.  Yet, playing underneath these segments, our producers want a crawling ticker that can capture a whole different type of news...about anything you want. 

 

So here’s the question: can you write what will appear on the Bar Karma news ticker?

 

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  • Ideacrusader
    Ideacrusader
    2 years ago
    One use could be that ticker contain clues to future episodes. Such as prior to the football player episode, football scores could scroll across the ticker for an episode or two before the actual football episode. (To determine other football team names, take the team names closest in genre to the final name and use those as the competition.)
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    I love all of the humor being pitched here. I think that content would be great to be scrolled across the ticker.

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