I remember anchors getting story ideas from other local news outlets, but I can not recall a time where someone just read another person’s work on the air (and I was on the farm more than 15 years ago).Circle Seven wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:23 amIf you've been hanging around Harry's old farm more than about 15 years or so, you should remember when the morning anchors would read almost verbatim articles from the different local newspapers.
Grandma turned 100.
A goat climbed up on the roof of a house. Madonna look alike contest coming up at the Yale Bologna Festival.
Quirky stuff that, believe it or not, people were interested in.
I was just about to say that I don’t think people are interested in those types of stories anymore, but then I think about it and I realize that we are still doing those types of stories to this day LOL.
I guess when it comes to this particular practice, the internet is a double edged sword. Sure, it does provide an easy way for newsrooms to copy and paste stories from other newsrooms, but it also makes it more likely that those other newsrooms will notice. Not to mention the effect it might have if those “borrowed” stories end up online again and search engines start to notice.
Maybe more than 15 years ago when a story was read on air and then never aired again, this might be a viable solution to the issue of providing more local news content. In today’s world of multiple platforms, re-airing online, social media, etc. this would not be a good idea.