Just one of my pet peeves is any reporting about gas prices always involved B-roll of gas station price signs. And they are always the most unbelievable numbers typically 20% or more above what people are actually paying. They find a full service station and then shoot their sign to prove that people are paying $4 a gallon. Its lazy and its incredibly prejudicial and they know it. Instead of having to go out and do some REAL reporting, they just use the same old footage which has no actual relation to the current story. Its like with the MSM talkes about Rush, they always use a picture from the 80's when he was really fat.
Agreed. We may be threadjacking here but there and there are so many targets but I can't resist a few:
- Reporters standing in front of a hospital where a celebrity and/or a crash victim has been taken. Are they waiting to be invited up to the treatment room?
- Interviews with mothers of thugs who claim "he was always a good boy....never got in trouble."
- Extreme close-ups of lightbars on police & EMT vehicles. Blink blink, rotate rotate, gee whiz that's neato.
- Going to the 'newsroom' (actually just a cubicle farm with no walls) for an important update....when the studio set and the 'newsroom' are 25 feet apart down a hallway! Do the anchors ever get to relate important stories? After all there are two of them getting paid to sit around, read a TelePrompTer and finish each other's sentences!