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Re:Supreme Court of the United States to Live Stream Oral Ar... by thaway757383884 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:25AM (#23080316)
If I understand this correctly, they changed the format of these legal proceedings to better suit the TV coverage?

Is this the NFL we are talking about or the Supreme Court?

Re:Supreme Court of the United States to Live Stream Oral Ar... by apetresc on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:04AM (#23080766)
Why do you think it's for TV coverage? It seems plausible to me it's just better-suited for the medium (of a remote call).

If you listen to the in-person oral arguments, there's a ton of interruption and pre-emption all the time (with the Justices always winning the pre-emption battle against the attorneys), which works fine with the visual cues and 0 latency of being present together. If they tried to imitate that same style over a typical Zoom session it would be a disaster, people talking all over each other, etc.

Re:Supreme Court of the United States to Live Stream Oral Ar... by jcranmer on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:53AM (#23080644)
Actually, the change probably has more to do with the difficulty of social cues for turn-taking over videoconference calls.