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Local News Anchor Feels Pain from Afar

Posted by michael on from the brrrr dept.

In times when Clear Channel makes up "local news" reports from central studios and broadcasts them over radio stations around the country, it's worth asking the question: when does it cross the line into deception?

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  1. Great family guy moment... by shiafu · · Score: 5, Funny
    Tom Tucker: In other news, an accident caused the Quahog cable television transmitter to be knocked out, which will prevent broadcasting to the entire city. Actually, no can hear this, so it doesn't really matter what I say. I'm the lord Jesus Christ. I think I'm going to get drunk and beat up some hookers. How about you, Diane?

    Diane Simmons: Well, Tom, I just plain don't like black people.

    Director: Uh, guys, we're still on in Boston.

  2. This story is total bullshit by defile · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course he's in Boston during his broadcasts. I saw it on TV.

  3. At least ... by mistert2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    it is not India....yet.

  4. Re:No Clear Channel stations mentioned in story... by Bryan+Gividen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everybody's doing it. Which is why it is also okay to do drugs, jump of cliffs, and buy Windows XP.

  5. Re:what?? by prockcore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hasn't hell frozen over yet? :)

    Yes it has. I'm reporting live from hell, and I can tell you that it's might cold out there! Brr!

  6. Re:No Clear Channel stations mentioned in story... by c1ay · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure they are. Look at Darl McBride, not once has he informed us that he's reporting from the asylum. He still found a mountain of code, copied line by line from Unixware and he has the Linux developers trapped in their tanks retreating from the battle. What difference does it make where he says it from, he's still a nutcase either way.

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  7. Re:An Excellent Example by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if they hit him with the tree branch ;)

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  8. Re:Outsourcing by evilviper · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's reminds me of how Indian phone center workers are sometimes trained in different regional US accents to create the illusion that they're local to the US customer.

    That's nothing... It's the naming thing that gets to me. Just a few weeks ago I was talking to a phone-support person with a deep, scratchy voice. The name given was (no joke) "Emily".

    What was just as funny, was hearing "Emily" freeze for about 15 seconds when I asked for her to spell it. :-)
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  9. Re:No Clear Channel stations mentioned in story... by router · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure the news broadcaster industry will be up in arms when the radio networks outsource their broadcasts to India tho. Don't they see the handwriting on the wall?

    andy