Then there is the circular gantry which descends from ceiling to floor, and from which Gabriel points a rostrum camera during ’Barry Williams Show’, his indictment of Jerry Springer-style television.

rostrum (n) 1: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, ambo, stump, soapbox] 2: beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils [syn: snout] – source: The Observer Review 18 May 2003, p. 10