timbasile wrote:
ubdawg wrote:
burnman wrote:
Is it me, or is it now SOP for
news publications to
conclude every story with screenshots of random tweets that confirm their thesis? And thanks for bringing up the Brian Williams purple heart. It was his third, so it didn't get nearly the coverage it deserved.
I liken this to the pre-social media era where you would see interviews with "locals"? You would watch the interview and scratch your head wondering "where do they find these idiots?" Now with twitter they don't have to go out looking for the idiots, the idiots flock to social media. And we get to see that that the idiots are not isolated examples, but are everywhere. We even get to see how idiotic our elected officials really are.My favourite examples of the "guy on the street" type interviews are either after a large gas price hike, or after it snows a lot. Basically just filler or the news equivalent of small talk.
Anchor: This just in, weather!
Guy with shovel: Well, we're shoveling ourselves out as best we can. It's cold.
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Anchor: The price of gas is going up!
Guy standing in front of large SUV at gas station: This is bad. It's now $x a tank! I remember when it used to be $y a tank!
Are you saying you're not interested in hearing from people stuck in really bad traffic jams where they were headed today, and why they were headed there?
Even worse are the ones where they interview schoolkids after an incident, without fail they pick some girl with 1/10th of both the IQ and conversational skills of Miss South Carolina who just wants to get on TV, and usually knows fuck-all about the incident aside from what she heard in the hallways.
