Things like this seem to happen often on the news - one of the only things on TV that is live every day. Usually it's just the camera aimed at the wrong newscaster while ther other on is talking, or something like this but with just the wrong person's face or usually the wrong name caption.
But what if the hamster really did it? Later news broadcasts would have the police surrounding the hamster cage, and that "perp walk" from the police car to the jail with the hamster in cuffs, fur over his face to hide from news photog's flashbulbs, then the courtroom sketches of the hamster during the trial... what else?
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"We're sorry. Obviously that was a shot from our story earlier on the imminent arrest of the producers of G-Force for crimes against the arts."
Heh- that's the local news for me. I swear over the last few years they've replaced all the experienced operations staff with kids fresh from the local broadcasting technical college to save money. It really shows.
It can be funny sometimes, other times, just plain annoying. Like repeating the same commercial multiple times or cutting in & out of commercials, or blackscreen going into or coming back from commercials.
They regularly have the wrong shot or footage on Channel 3 News (WFSB).
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