R.E.M. has created a faux news site at MORNING TEAM.com and you can get their latest video from there. Anderson Cooper interviewed Michael Stipe several weeks ago and premiered the video where, for the length of the video you could get not one, not two, but three (and I think even four at one point) news crawls of varying speeds and sizes running along the screen. I think the only thing I've seen more eye-boggling has been when one of the official news organs (cnn, fox, etc) runs an Al-Jazeera feed in a window of their own feed, so you end up with a left-to-right crawl from Al-Jazeera conflicting with the right-to-left crawls on the western networks.

It's been two years already, can we retire the constant crawls? Even CNNfn has swiched to what I'll call a market odometer, away from the stock quote crawl (which used to be normal and expected on financial newscasts).