evan_davis•13d agoOG Member

Used to think raw glitches in news reports ruined the whole piece, but now I just laugh at the anchor panicking when the teleprompter goes haywire

Switched my take after seeing a blooper reel from a local station in Cleveland back in 2017 where the weather map froze on a massive purple blob for 12 seconds straight. Anyone else prefer the messy real reactions over the polished final cut?

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morgan.jason13d ago

Is it really that serious though? I mean, it's a local news weather segment, not a presidential address. I get finding the humor in it, but calling it "preferred" over a clean broadcast feels like assigning too much weight to someone's awkward 12 seconds on a Tuesday morning.

simonk9813d ago

@morgan.jason I hear you on not taking it too seriously. But I used to be the same way about raw glitches in news, I would cringe watching the anchor lose their spot. Then I caught this clip from a Portland station where the anchor tried to sign off but the producer accidentally cut to her mid-sip of coffee, she just froze and then cracked up laughing. Thats what sold me on the messy stuff. The polished thing feels fake when you see the real person behind it makes it way more human. Your mileage may vary though.

phoenix_grant13d ago

And yeah, @simonk98, that Portland clip is exactly the kind of thing I mean. A buddy of mine works at a small station in Ohio and told me about the time the green screen map went haywire during a live forecast, just started flipping through random cities while the meteorologist kept a straight face and ad-libbed a whole fake travel segment. Stuff like that makes me way more interested than the sleek, scripted version because it actually feels like real people messing up and rolling with it.