Originally posted by p38arover I'll have to go and Google that name. I've heard of Tom Sawyer.
She's a newscaster in the U.S. who has had a long, successful career. When her show went high def a few years ago, after the first segments aired viewers couldn't help but notice the network started shooting her with soft focus lenses to minimize seeing her wrinkles, not uncommon when shooting mature actresses. But it was so weird suddenly seeing her with this maximum effect gauzy blur that it became all you could think about while watching her, and worse it backfired because it became the first topic that came up in conversations about her.
So the Ken Burns effect in video is a still image that slowly travels around and using an excessively soft focus lens is now the Diane Sawyer effect.