Stop the insanity!\u00a0 Television\u00a0news organizations constantly use stock footage when they air a story about some\u00a0topics.\u00a0 You know what I mean.\u00a0 I’ll mention a topic and you tell me the footage you always see whenever there’s news about that topic.\u00a0 Ready?\u00a0 Smoking.\u00a0 You can see it can’t you?\u00a0 A closeup of someone’s mouth puffing a cigarette and exhaling smoke.\u00a0 Every time there’s a story about tobacco or the health problems associated with smoking, you’ll see someone’s mouth fill your TV screen.\u00a0 Different stories have different people, but it’s the same camera shot.<\/p>\n
Another topic?\u00a0 Obesity.\u00a0 What do you see?\u00a0 Closeups of overweight people walking down the street, heads and faces omitted.\u00a0 The closeup can be from the back, from the side, or from the front, but that’s what you’ll see every time, a fat belly or behind walking down the street.<\/p>\n
How about a story on prescription drugs?\u00a0 You guessed it.\u00a0 Someone pours several pills into a counting tray and uses a knife to count out a number of pills to fill a prescription bottle.\u00a0 You’ve probably counted them yourself.\u00a0\u00a0They slide their knife to collect five pills at a time and sweep them into a trough.<\/p>\n
Television is boring enough without showing the same scenes week after week, year after year.\u00a0 And it has been years<\/em> and years<\/em>.\u00a0 Isn’t there any creativity left in news story editing?\u00a0 Surely they must get tired of producing the same footage over and over to accompany new stories about the same topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stop the insanity!\u00a0 Television\u00a0news organizations constantly use stock footage when they air a story about some\u00a0topics.\u00a0 You know what I mean.\u00a0 I’ll mention a topic and you tell me the footage you always see whenever there’s news about that topic.\u00a0 Ready?\u00a0 Smoking.\u00a0 You can see it can’t you?\u00a0 A closeup of someone’s mouth puffing a … Continue reading “No More Stock Footage Please”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}