News screen

A news screen was an audio/visual device used by Humans in the 22nd century for the reception of current event broadcasts.

In 2154, when chief engineer Charles Tucker refused to make modifications to the verteron array on Mars so that John Frederick Paxton could use it as a weapon against Earth, Paxton ordered one of his men to imprison Tucker, and to make sure he had a news screen so that he could "see the bodies when they start to pull them from the rubble."