Conan O'Brien shows how America's #1 source of news has been infiltrated by press release garbage.... “Ripping and reading”—a nickname for the practice of taking a press release and reading it on air—is a disturbing trend that has disseminated on local newscasts. In December, comedian Conan O’Brien took on the practice in a hilarious segment featuring a spree of local news anchors reading the same words from a press release about Christmas gifts....
Via Jeff Domansky
Somewhere a PR person is doing a happy dance for all of this Christmas gift coverage. On the other hand, there is something disconcerting about the numbing sameness when you think about how many good local stories did not get coverage.
Une vidéo hilarante - et quelque peu inquiétante - des télés locales américaines. Même si vous ne comprenez pas l'anglais, vous remarquerez vite quelques similitudes entre les interventions !