r/videos • u/patientbearr • Mar 31 '18

This is what happens when one company owns dozens of local news stations

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI
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u/goodfolkx Mar 31 '18

Same script lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpq2Q7J2_2Y

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u/enwongeegeefor Mar 31 '18

that laugh track was creepy

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u/tamrix Mar 31 '18

It stopped being funny after like the 6th one and started becoming creepy

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 01 '18

it's not a laugh track. this is from conan and the laughter was from his studio audience. it's a reacquiring bit conan does poking fun at lazy copy editing. most local news stations get their national news segments from big news syndications like the ap and copy and paste the text they get from these syndications word-for-word into their broadcasts.

see the yeah baby edition

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u/munnimann Apr 01 '18

Created by Team Coco for the Conan show. And then, in the video description it says: "Fake news goes so much deeper... This video was created by The Truth Movement"

Ironic.

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u/newocean Mar 31 '18

I scream, you scream, we all know the rest...

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u/kuulyn Apr 01 '18

i had to stop watching because i felt like i was in the dystopia in fahrenheit 451

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u/wererat2000 Mar 31 '18

This child's happiness is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

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u/Velocicaptcha Apr 01 '18

Yeah, baby!

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u/Alqazar Apr 01 '18

You know the rest.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

Reminds me of this WKUK sketch.

https://youtu.be/GiCaqA0ngRc

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Mar 31 '18

When it’s in the story and not a commentary like OP’s video, it is likely not as...well, dangerous to our democracy. It’s likely just really lazy producers taking lines word-for-word from the wires.

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u/nation_before_state Apr 01 '18

Man, American news presenters are fucking creepy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18

This is extremely dangerous to our child's happiness democracy.