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Television Fri Feb 19 2010
Surprisingly Good TV News Segment
I'm often annoyed with local TV news because they'll tease a story endlessly, and then when the story comes up, it will last for a minute and won't say much. So basically, they wasted time teasing instead of putting those seconds into the story itself.
Or sometimes what I think is a "report" is really a video news release (VNR), which is just a visual press release passed off as "news." It's a way to save, or make, money, and the sad thing is that the viewers have no idea that they're being duped.
But earlier this week, there was a story on CBS 2 that actually reported something: proof of people sneaking on to the Brown Line for free. Unfortunately, the station doesn't allow embedding of video, but check it out at their site. And because of the report, the CTA responded as best they could. We'll see what happens now that the cameras are gone.