"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert Hanlon
Or laziness. - me
There was undoubtedly a press release for this. I'd bet money it read, "Conan O'Brien is about to push the envelope on late night television!" And news writers and readers everywhere just parroted the release rather than try to think for themselves. Independent thought and reporting has pretty much been eradicated in mainstream media.
Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television!
In other news, I don't know why, with all the show's history with props, he did not cut back to himself pushing a giant fake envelope across the stage, and then kicking it over. It would have been epic win!
It's a common expression. Not hard to find a common expression and cherry pick them out of a whole bunch of newscasts to argue for some sort of zombie media machine.
its really really sad that some of you gullable fucks still buy into the left/right game. any adult with common sense, and even children for that matter, can see that both parties are bought and controlled by wall street.
@michaelglass00 I agree 100%-Repubican or Dumbocrit, same shit different pile! Under republicans man exploits man, under democrats it's just the opposite
Why did they block out the station identification? How do we know there are not all from the same station reporting through the day? But with that said, yes the MSM is all controlled and corrupt. However, this video is not going to convince anyone of that because of the blocked out station ID's.
its just a news report, maybe even written by the government and they were all too lazy to change it...? are there news reports of this story with different introductions? how many TV news stations are there in the USA? answer every question before you start jumping into conspiracies.
@dfitt92 an Arrow to the knee joke! oh man! that's always hilarious! amazing! Very funny very very hilarious. Very funny. I definitely encourage people to post it in every god damn fucking video, blogs and pictures. Cause it's so god damn fucking funny. An arrow to the knee joke.
I think Conan gets the joke but you're comparing the blanket lack of creativity of today's media to the willful manipulation of the news by the Bush era pro-war propaganda machine?
@phnortgner If you really think the willful manipulation of the news by a pro-war propaganda machine ended with the Bush administration, then you are woefully naive.
This is typical of news today. Take a PR release and read it as is......no wonder people don't have faith in news anymore....this is proof of how lazy and understaffed newsrooms are now
It’s called a broadcast fax. PR agencies looking to get pick up will send out a pre written piece to news agencies. They are just reading the same PR Fax New releases.
These are local news stations that didn't bother to spend money on hiring their own writers, instead lazily reporting directly from a press release. It's closer to plagiarism, not conspiracy.
Trust me, if there is a centralized conspiracy in the media, it's not going to be going to focus on trivial things like late night talk shows.
I used to be a news editor. We would get faxes of pre-written news pieces by pr firms and the like. We shredded them because we wrote our own stuff (community radio FTW)
@smokeylotus Right you are. It's all about how much effort the station puts into its reporting. I worked with broadcast reporters who'd show up, holding an article about us in the morning's newspaper, with certain sentences highlighted.
"Liberal media control." Yeah, STFU. If it were "Liberal Media Control", we'd be hearing about SOPA, PIPA and NDAA everywhere. AP and Reuters aren't carrying that stuff, so it never gets read. Are you stating that AP/Reuters are "liberal"? I think they're puppets more than anything else, under the control of those who don't want public information to contain any intelligence.
@wraukon its got nothing to do with conservative and republican u ditz, if it was liberal media we would be hearing about gay marriage 24/7 and during the commercial time we might get to here how george soros ruined the whole OWS movement making it liberal lol
Hey, namecalling -- foul. "conservative and republican"? Redundant much? I was commenting on the guy who spouted the "liberal media control" nonsense. Please try to keep in context.
I can't stand that phrase, "push the envelope". How is pushing an envelope akin violating traditional moral conventions? This is a concoction of the media.
As to whether this is real or faked, I recognized one of the guys as a former newsman from the CBS affiliate in Altoona, Pa. Based on that it looks legit!
Conan's highlighting the fact the news channels use press releases to populate their output - press releases published by his own public relations function - thus showing he's very much just as much a part of this ridiculous network as every other node.
I agree this is laziness, I've heard this kind of thing many times, throughout the day I'll hear the same phrase used over and over; the media regurgitates the AP feed. And don't most news anchors just read the copy they're given? Kinda like a president giving a speech. Remember when Pres. Obama read Navy "corpseman" instead of "Corpsman"? I wonder if it was misspelled on his teleprompter or if he really didn't know the correct pronunciation.
I've never trusted (or liked) people who use these mass media narrative, bullshit phrases like "push the envelope," or "at the end of the day" (and several others). I've never known why; it just gave me the creeps. And this just goes to show that my instincts were correct.
It's not media control. It's producer laziness. CBS provided the script in their Video On Demand service to their affiliates. Then an Associate Producer or Producer doesn't rewrite the story, but copy-paste. Conan just called them on it.
It looks like an AP stringer began a newswire article with that phrase and the various people who wrote the copy at the various stations were too lazy to think of a different lede.
Crowsheild, try this again, since my last one never appeared. At least on is real. The one that has "KLBK" behind the news people is my local CBS affiliate, channel 13 in Lubbock, TX. The grey haired newscaster is Bill Maddox, and he has been on the news air hear as far back as I can remember, at least since the late 70's. No way I mistake that one, it's real.
I'm really surprised people actually think this is real. Notice In the opening message they even misspell “organization”. Conan was never this important…especially at this point in his career
Hello-People , this is a complete hoax!!! People are saying you can see the “fox” and “cbs” etcetera. No You cant! Notice they are partially covered. You don’t see any real channel station there. Do you really think Conan is that important?? Anything he does???
Very interesting. I live in Left wing liberal territory, San Francisco/Marin County, and the media here is very, very pro left wing liberal and very anti Republican... interesting!
They are still reading Carl Rove's prepared handouts? Or maybe they are all remote controlled zombies from the Fox droid and Stepford wife factory, playing the same tape.
They are still reading Carl Rove's prepared handouts? Or maybe they are all remote controlled zombies from the Fox droid and Stepford wife factory, playing the same tape.
Where's he going to push it to? What's going to be in it? How far is he going to push it? Will he push it with his tongue? Wow, this just shows the mind control tv has over the lemmings.
This is what happens when a NEWS story includes a commentary CLEVER hook beginning... "pushing the late-night envelope". If the story would have stuck to the facts this would not have been a problem even if the story was read WORD FOR WORD by all. News outlets have become too lazy to think up their own intro lines then spouted the same old facts that's all. I think it was the interjection of commentary that has old newsmen like myself aggravated as hell and I can't take it anymore.
Regardless of whether this is fake or not - @AdrienMitch, while you're right, they are all CBS affliliates (which you can tell something was up because the "Hollywood Headlines" header at both 0:23 and 0:26 was exactly the same), don't you think the newsroom would allow for a little bit of ad-libbing with the TelePrompTer?
Ben Bagdikian: THE MEDIA MONOPOLY. Old book in its umpteenth edition, but still relevant, particularly when you see the above and read RDTVca's post on the problems of media concentration. (see above)
@crowshield That's what I was thinking, too. Television anchors are, essentially, a lot like actors.They read scripts, whether they prepared those scripts, themselves, or somebody else did. There were way too many instances of these anchors not pesenting the line as well as they generally would (If they're even real anchors? I don't know?), during a broadcast. I have to agree. It was clearly a joke/hoax.
Consistency does not equal control? Have you ever been to a Christian Science church? The weekly Sunday "sermon" is mailed out by The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston and read in each church across the nation and around the world. That's what I call consistency.
@rparl I see your point... Well then, look at it as "quality" control ;) Media control has a bad connotation to it, it definitely exists (I'm actually a huuuuge advocate of loosening the media's hold on public opinion) I just don't think this video depicts that sort of "bad" control that would lead the masses towards a dark pit
@rparl Another example of consistency would be accepted information in science textbooks for example. You would surely agree that we want consistency in what we teach if the facts are proven. Would that fall under the "control" category?
It's called the Associated Press idiot! They are just lazy, pulling the feed and running with it verbatim....duh! Old news, man, way old! Where have you been?
If you read news on the internet, you'll see the same sentences over and over (from AP or USA, for example), so this is no different. The only "conspiracy" is how the liberal media trains its sheep-like viewers to think/act/believe like a liberal, without doing any original analysis. Oh, and please read Tim Grossclose's "Left Turn" before you post any knee-jerk response.
Wake up and do your homework: every channel shown in this video are all CBS affiliates, all the reporters were reading information from the same press release on their teleprompters. The main CBS office sending the same story to their local chapters in different cities does NOT indicate controlled media. At best, this demonstrates the auto-pilot mode that reporters operate under...
@AdrienMitch Shut up man, i only posted this video for a laugh. Of course we know the news channels are all owned by the big networks. Go troll somewhere else!
@geminimc69 It was just as funny as watching 30 different people read the same passage from the same book. Don't name your videos something different than what you intend on conveying. This is NOT media control, it might reflect how "unoriginal" the media is but not that is controlled by anybody. An example of media control would be Fox News acting as a right-wing propaganda machine. And please try not to use the word "troll", it really grinds my gears haha
@AdrienMitch I am at a loss to understand what "[t]he main CBS office sending the same story to their local chapters in different cities" is EXCEPT "controlled media."
@pgroce different local chapters give out information to different people in specific cities. Main offices simply want consistency of diffused information. Consistency does not equate to control
@AdrienMitch except when fox was quoting the same line, but you are right cbs, msnbc and fox are affiliates of the chief media operation, the federal reserve
Haha, usually I am the one telling people to adjust their tin foil hats... the vast control of information through the media by corporations in order to condition society the be sheep so that they can continue to control the world's governments is the only true conspiracy. No reptilians needed.
@AdrienMitch Absolutely. All news agencies are slashing their operating budgets. Many closing foreign news desks, limiting field reporting, and using the AP, Reuters where possible. It's lazy but mostly because they can't afford to compete any longer. This also encourages more polarizing stories and fear mongering to drive up ratings. Hearst did this with news papers in the 30's too.
@AdrienMitch reporters operate on auto-pilot...people watch the tube on auto-pilot...people vote on auto-pilot...it doesn't matter if the subject is grape jelly or gun control, if we don't know how to actively separate our absorption of facts from crap, we are primed for control by somebody, because in this environment everything is important and nothing is important. It's not really a conspiracy, just the human race perpetrating a huge disservice to itself.
@AdrienMitch They were NOT all CBS affiliates....unless FOX is part of CBS now. The point is, this just demonstrates the infrastructure for someone to deliver a message...any message...in a certain way to a lot of people. If you don't think it is used to influnce the masses, you are deluded.
@hottubz1965 it's probably a partnership agreement for that local affiliate. The FOX station where I live is in the same building as the CBS affiliate and staff is shared between the two stations
All I can hear is my college News Writing professor telling us "Press releases are NOT news...". This does not prove that the "Media is controlled", it just proves that News Directors are lazy, and talking heads on camera read whatever is on the teleprompter in front of them. Shades of Ron Burgundy...
Resources in local broadcast newsrooms are under tremendous pressure from owners and management to turn out a product which attracts viewers, thus advertisers. This is no conspiracy, kids. I wish commenters would deal in facts, not scaredy-cat conspiracy theorgies. Local newsrooms use most of their resources on local stories. National and international stories come from the AP wire, AFP, Reuters and other sources. All these clips show is that non-local stories fro the wire are used verbatim
@OxAO This has NOTHING to do with networks. Some day you will do some research and see how national and international news is gathered and disseminated. No conspiracy. No boogie-men, no matter how much your heart would like it to be so. Newsrooms are filled with conservatives, progressives, independents. Any conspiracy would be quickly revealed. (You might try calling one of you local news directors and ask to visit the newsroom to see how it REALLY works.)
@skrapps914 Perhaps but it could also be that they put out a press release which started that way. Lots of media outlets simply replicate those releases verbatim because its easier and less time consuming than to write up entirely new material.
@skrapps914 This is exactly what happened. Conspiracy nuts are ridiculous - using a LATE NIGHT SHOW that frequently promotes itself for their media-is-controlled idea? Instead of, like, something political?
I don't see how this is a "conspiracy" local news affiliates are just being lazy and using the same cliche phrase to get the message across. Local news stations get national and international news from common sources like AP but do their own reporting on local events. It's more like how if you work as a cashier and all the customers say the same things and make the same jokes, it's not a conspiracy, it's just that it's easy to use cliches and throwaway phrases.
"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media. We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."– William Casey, CIA Director
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i hear the laughing i think this is a Conan O'Brien skit but i know the media is controlled
demolishionhammer 2 weeks ago
i agree with the description.
repomayne 1 month ago
Oh, I caught that, and I agree that it is lamestream, but to call it such and Liberal in the same breath is ignorant or disingenuous - at best.
wraukon 1 month ago
Maybe someone tells them what they can and can't put on the air? Hmmm...who would have thought.
mdougalsr1 1 month ago
Conan O'Brien maybe about to push the envelope on late night television.
ciucinciu 1 month ago
@ciucinciu *may be
IneenRoes 1 month ago
All laughing aside, isn't anyone worried about this? This is truly scary to me...
luketube 1 month ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert Hanlon
Or laziness. - me
There was undoubtedly a press release for this. I'd bet money it read, "Conan O'Brien is about to push the envelope on late night television!" And news writers and readers everywhere just parroted the release rather than try to think for themselves. Independent thought and reporting has pretty much been eradicated in mainstream media.
lyaeger 2 months ago
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Do they all get together in some sort of redundant summit, before airing?
1966Chele 2 months ago
Do they all get together in some sort of redundant summit, before airing?
1966Chele 2 months ago
Conan O'Brien may be about to push the envelope on late night television!
In other news, I don't know why, with all the show's history with props, he did not cut back to himself pushing a giant fake envelope across the stage, and then kicking it over. It would have been epic win!
nihonnewbie 2 months ago
It's a common expression. Not hard to find a common expression and cherry pick them out of a whole bunch of newscasts to argue for some sort of zombie media machine.
zoobiewa 2 months ago
its really really sad that some of you gullable fucks still buy into the left/right game. any adult with common sense, and even children for that matter, can see that both parties are bought and controlled by wall street.
michaelglass00 2 months ago 17
@michaelglass00 "left/right paradigm"
geminimc69 2 months ago 3
@michaelglass00 I agree 100%-Repubican or Dumbocrit, same shit different pile! Under republicans man exploits man, under democrats it's just the opposite
jameseb63 2 months ago
@michaelglass00 Amen
gmshawnryu 3 weeks ago
Why did they block out the station identification? How do we know there are not all from the same station reporting through the day? But with that said, yes the MSM is all controlled and corrupt. However, this video is not going to convince anyone of that because of the blocked out station ID's.
lindainmexico11 2 months ago
It goes out on a news wire just like newspapers
CaptainRon1913 2 months ago 2
wheres my thinfoilhat....
sinredml85 2 months ago
The Liberal Media Talking Points went out. And the dutiful media suck ups did what they were told.
MrJohngalt2011 2 months ago
This is just another example of the dumbing down of American media. It isn't liberal or conservative as much as it is LAZY
TAVinAVL 2 months ago
could be a joke but i think it is real...tell lies to your vision and program all that watch
omarphi215 2 months ago
I dont get it? serious
poolpig 2 months ago
TBS should zoom in on Conan's desk and show him actually pushing an envelope.
miXtapeD 2 months ago
is this a joke or something?
Gyozomroka 2 months ago
its just a news report, maybe even written by the government and they were all too lazy to change it...? are there news reports of this story with different introductions? how many TV news stations are there in the USA? answer every question before you start jumping into conspiracies.
specstorm 2 months ago
i used to push envelopes until i took an arrow to the knee...
dfitt92 2 months ago
@dfitt92 an Arrow to the knee joke! oh man! that's always hilarious! amazing! Very funny very very hilarious. Very funny. I definitely encourage people to post it in every god damn fucking video, blogs and pictures. Cause it's so god damn fucking funny. An arrow to the knee joke.
0TylerDurden0 2 months ago 2
I think Conan gets the joke but you're comparing the blanket lack of creativity of today's media to the willful manipulation of the news by the Bush era pro-war propaganda machine?
phnortgner 2 months ago
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@phnortgner If you really think the willful manipulation of the news by a pro-war propaganda machine ended with the Bush administration, then you are woefully naive.
CounterRevolutionary 2 months ago
This is typical of news today. Take a PR release and read it as is......no wonder people don't have faith in news anymore....this is proof of how lazy and understaffed newsrooms are now
luckylager8 2 months ago 2
like 9/11 they were all given the same scripts to read...
rg2027x 2 months ago
Disturbing.
islakay 2 months ago
It’s called a broadcast fax. PR agencies looking to get pick up will send out a pre written piece to news agencies. They are just reading the same PR Fax New releases.
Chann3l0 2 months ago 4
@Chann3l0 thank you for your informative comment among these rabid conspiracy theorists
WestSideLuigi 2 months ago
@WestSideLuigi Ironically, it's you that lives in a dream world.
CounterRevolutionary 2 months ago
@CounterRevolutionary nope.avi
WestSideLuigi 2 months ago
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beach40 2 months ago
The good news is, absolutely no one is thinking outside the box.
dougmolitor 2 months ago 2
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These are local news stations that didn't bother to spend money on hiring their own writers, instead lazily reporting directly from a press release. It's closer to plagiarism, not conspiracy.
Trust me, if there is a centralized conspiracy in the media, it's not going to be going to focus on trivial things like late night talk shows.
CowartYT 2 months ago
@CowartYT who said anyting about a conspiracy?
geminimc69 2 months ago
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CowartYT 2 months ago
I used to be a news editor. We would get faxes of pre-written news pieces by pr firms and the like. We shredded them because we wrote our own stuff (community radio FTW)
smokeylotus 2 months ago 3
@smokeylotus Right you are. It's all about how much effort the station puts into its reporting. I worked with broadcast reporters who'd show up, holding an article about us in the morning's newspaper, with certain sentences highlighted.
joemichaels1 2 months ago
LMAO!
MsVanz2010 2 months ago
They aren't pushing the envelope, they're pushing the dildo.
pokinsmotrday 2 months ago
I used to push the envelope like Conan, but then I took an arrow in the knee.
InspiredChaos 2 months ago 2
"Liberal media control." Yeah, STFU. If it were "Liberal Media Control", we'd be hearing about SOPA, PIPA and NDAA everywhere. AP and Reuters aren't carrying that stuff, so it never gets read. Are you stating that AP/Reuters are "liberal"? I think they're puppets more than anything else, under the control of those who don't want public information to contain any intelligence.
wraukon 2 months ago 28
@wraukon what part of "lamestream media" don't you understand?
geminimc69 2 months ago 11
@wraukon its got nothing to do with conservative and republican u ditz, if it was liberal media we would be hearing about gay marriage 24/7 and during the commercial time we might get to here how george soros ruined the whole OWS movement making it liberal lol
jmortier88 2 months ago
Hey, namecalling -- foul. "conservative and republican"? Redundant much? I was commenting on the guy who spouted the "liberal media control" nonsense. Please try to keep in context.
wraukon 1 month ago
Wait wait, what? I didn't quite get that... What might he be about to do?
HappyKittty 2 months ago 4
the politics of heroin at fox television.
DangerousDan77777 2 months ago
>>@xXDreadandDreamsXx << is absolutely right. those people are just reading wire copy. dumb and lazy.
redshoesgirl 2 months ago
envelope, ahnvelope. what's the diff?
pbannow 2 months ago
Ok everyone watch the shiny object
dmarlo100 2 months ago
"Polly wanna' cracker" Pretty bird...
groganzolla1 2 months ago
If you had any doubts about the liberal media's control over main stream media....
xXDreadandDreamsXx 2 months ago
@xXDreadandDreamsXx That's not liberal media control, that's lazy reporting straight from AP wire copy.
freenachos 2 months ago 3
WE NEED AN ENVELOPE!!!
Mattyew 2 months ago
Most important tool in media..... Ctrl C Ctrl V
tampabaynews 2 months ago 3
I can't stand that phrase, "push the envelope". How is pushing an envelope akin violating traditional moral conventions? This is a concoction of the media.
crumbtrey 2 months ago
I love how they blur the logo in the corner of the screen, but yet it's clear as day in the background... LOL
MrJawz1978 2 months ago 4
As to whether this is real or faked, I recognized one of the guys as a former newsman from the CBS affiliate in Altoona, Pa. Based on that it looks legit!
MrMaddawgg 2 months ago
Conan's highlighting the fact the news channels use press releases to populate their output - press releases published by his own public relations function - thus showing he's very much just as much a part of this ridiculous network as every other node.
KeirRitchie 2 months ago
I agree this is laziness, I've heard this kind of thing many times, throughout the day I'll hear the same phrase used over and over; the media regurgitates the AP feed. And don't most news anchors just read the copy they're given? Kinda like a president giving a speech. Remember when Pres. Obama read Navy "corpseman" instead of "Corpsman"? I wonder if it was misspelled on his teleprompter or if he really didn't know the correct pronunciation.
tequilaandoldlace 2 months ago
I've never trusted (or liked) people who use these mass media narrative, bullshit phrases like "push the envelope," or "at the end of the day" (and several others). I've never known why; it just gave me the creeps. And this just goes to show that my instincts were correct.
Xervosh23 2 months ago
That's right. Just read your lines, you fucking dead-eyed ROBOTS.
jimithingjames 2 months ago
He's already pushing the envelope with that hair cut...
ellisgarvin 2 months ago
It's not media control. It's producer laziness. CBS provided the script in their Video On Demand service to their affiliates. Then an Associate Producer or Producer doesn't rewrite the story, but copy-paste. Conan just called them on it.
Marichan221 2 months ago 2
@crowshield Look up WRBL 3 (from 0:19) or KTVL (0:39)...
tuber12321 2 months ago
It looks like an AP stringer began a newswire article with that phrase and the various people who wrote the copy at the various stations were too lazy to think of a different lede.
kkachi 2 months ago 4
Crowsheild, try this again, since my last one never appeared. At least on is real. The one that has "KLBK" behind the news people is my local CBS affiliate, channel 13 in Lubbock, TX. The grey haired newscaster is Bill Maddox, and he has been on the news air hear as far back as I can remember, at least since the late 70's. No way I mistake that one, it's real.
musiman28 2 months ago
Conan O'Brian just wanted to hear other people say his name over and over.
CoolMuZicMan 2 months ago
The Republicans do this with 'talking points' . It's hilarious. What damn envelope?
anonymouscalamity 2 months ago
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I'm really surprised people actually think this is real. Notice In the opening message they even misspell “organization”. Conan was never this important…especially at this point in his career
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crowshield 2 months ago
Hello-People , this is a complete hoax!!! People are saying you can see the “fox” and “cbs” etcetera. No You cant! Notice they are partially covered. You don’t see any real channel station there. Do you really think Conan is that important?? Anything he does???
crowshield 2 months ago
@crowshield
I'm guessing you've never actually watched local news channels.
cattac61 2 months ago
@crowshield fake post right here
iskim86 2 months ago
Watching this made me realize how pathetic these newscasters are... Very sad they let themselves be puppeted like this...
seasthestars 2 months ago
And people wonder why the U.S. is so dumbed down.
TealAlloy 2 months ago
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Very interesting. I live in Left wing liberal territory, San Francisco/Marin County, and the media here is very, very pro left wing liberal and very anti Republican... interesting!
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They are still reading Carl Rove's prepared handouts? Or maybe they are all remote controlled zombies from the Fox droid and Stepford wife factory, playing the same tape.
daveharpe 2 months ago
They are still reading Carl Rove's prepared handouts? Or maybe they are all remote controlled zombies from the Fox droid and Stepford wife factory, playing the same tape.
daveharpe 2 months ago 2
americans are slaves
jgig22 2 months ago
sound is all fucked up
Faceuvdeth 2 months ago
Okay, so these are all CBS affiliates reading from a script. That raises the question: why do we need local affiliates any more?
oddToddCO 2 months ago
"Wake up and do your homework: every channel shown in this video are all CBS affiliates" Even the one that said FOX?
Slipperydither 2 months ago 4
HA, my local news New 22 WSBT was first!
colincarguy 2 months ago
Where's he going to push it to? What's going to be in it? How far is he going to push it? Will he push it with his tongue? Wow, this just shows the mind control tv has over the lemmings.
usmcoth 2 months ago
This is pre-XACTLY why Maria Shriver left her anchor gig years ago.
StephenMPerkins 2 months ago
OHMG!
Damien83954 2 months ago
"Pushing the envelope" means you are about to go faster than sound. I think they are trying to go faster than dumb. It can be done!!
idahosilverspelunker 2 months ago 3
They are so original.... and soooo newsworthy. LOL
UnitedCorpOfAmerica 2 months ago
This is what happens when a NEWS story includes a commentary CLEVER hook beginning... "pushing the late-night envelope". If the story would have stuck to the facts this would not have been a problem even if the story was read WORD FOR WORD by all. News outlets have become too lazy to think up their own intro lines then spouted the same old facts that's all. I think it was the interjection of commentary that has old newsmen like myself aggravated as hell and I can't take it anymore.
danbortz7 2 months ago 2
I've been in newsrooms and seen how they just cut and paste press releases right into the teleprompter script.
blazak 2 months ago
Hey, there's a newscaster from my town!
DJjaaz19 2 months ago
Regardless of whether this is fake or not - @AdrienMitch, while you're right, they are all CBS affliliates (which you can tell something was up because the "Hollywood Headlines" header at both 0:23 and 0:26 was exactly the same), don't you think the newsroom would allow for a little bit of ad-libbing with the TelePrompTer?
Revkor 2 months ago
Yeah, all news agencies are lazy and they get their talking points from the Associated Press feed.
I don't think that this is news to anyone in the industry.
cajunj2 2 months ago
Pushing the envelope and burning the midnight oil... is it AHN-ve-lope, or ENN-ve-lope? Toe may toe, toe mah toe...
jrberry63 2 months ago
@jrberry63 you say tomato, i say tomato. not as funny when you read it.
mydogscooter 2 months ago
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@jrberry63 you say tomato, i say tomato. not as funny when you read it.
mydogscooter 2 months ago
Ben Bagdikian: THE MEDIA MONOPOLY. Old book in its umpteenth edition, but still relevant, particularly when you see the above and read RDTVca's post on the problems of media concentration. (see above)
jonnyveda 2 months ago
This is clearly a joke/hoax-I'm surprised so many people falling for this...
crowshield 2 months ago
@crowshield That's what I was thinking, too. Television anchors are, essentially, a lot like actors.They read scripts, whether they prepared those scripts, themselves, or somebody else did. There were way too many instances of these anchors not pesenting the line as well as they generally would (If they're even real anchors? I don't know?), during a broadcast. I have to agree. It was clearly a joke/hoax.
brianwesley28 2 months ago
This is fake people!!!
crowshield 2 months ago
Did Conan O'Brian push the fucking envelope?
Hyperborea2012 2 months ago 2
Consistency does not equal control? Have you ever been to a Christian Science church? The weekly Sunday "sermon" is mailed out by The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston and read in each church across the nation and around the world. That's what I call consistency.
rparl 2 months ago
@rparl I see your point... Well then, look at it as "quality" control ;) Media control has a bad connotation to it, it definitely exists (I'm actually a huuuuge advocate of loosening the media's hold on public opinion) I just don't think this video depicts that sort of "bad" control that would lead the masses towards a dark pit
AdrienMitch 2 months ago
@rparl Another example of consistency would be accepted information in science textbooks for example. You would surely agree that we want consistency in what we teach if the facts are proven. Would that fall under the "control" category?
AdrienMitch 2 months ago
In most cases the affiliation of the station was blurred (intentionally?) but at least one was clearly Faux News.
rparl 2 months ago
haaaaaaaaaaaa LOVE it haaaaaa apart from knowing since I could read ie not being surprised grt mix haaaa
lucyvan2010 2 months ago
It's an AP press release they're reading. Big F'in deal. I think I even read that release before the news that day.
trinnylax123 2 months ago
We gotta get an envelope!!!
prosthetic518 2 months ago
@prosthetic518 haaaaaaa :D
lucyvan2010 2 months ago
I used to report original stories before I took an arrow to the knee.
MrPayback 2 months ago
It's called the Associated Press idiot! They are just lazy, pulling the feed and running with it verbatim....duh! Old news, man, way old! Where have you been?
MoeZeppelin 2 months ago
If you read news on the internet, you'll see the same sentences over and over (from AP or USA, for example), so this is no different. The only "conspiracy" is how the liberal media trains its sheep-like viewers to think/act/believe like a liberal, without doing any original analysis. Oh, and please read Tim Grossclose's "Left Turn" before you post any knee-jerk response.
thebl00per 2 months ago
The Daily Show already did this. You shit.
Strayinsane 2 months ago
The word envelope sounds so weird now...
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NoBigDealBro 2 months ago 12
wow none of these tv stations could step outside and find a worthy news story from their city. its a damn shame. good job conan at proving your point
musico06 2 months ago
Wake up and do your homework: every channel shown in this video are all CBS affiliates, all the reporters were reading information from the same press release on their teleprompters. The main CBS office sending the same story to their local chapters in different cities does NOT indicate controlled media. At best, this demonstrates the auto-pilot mode that reporters operate under...
AdrienMitch 2 months ago 44
@AdrienMitch Not so I saw 2 local channels from my area and they are Fox and ABC,
TexDiamond 2 months ago 2
@AdrienMitch
Most of them were CBS affiliates but some were not
OxAO 2 months ago
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@AdrienMitch Shut up man, i only posted this video for a laugh. Of course we know the news channels are all owned by the big networks. Go troll somewhere else!
geminimc69 2 months ago
@geminimc69 It was just as funny as watching 30 different people read the same passage from the same book. Don't name your videos something different than what you intend on conveying. This is NOT media control, it might reflect how "unoriginal" the media is but not that is controlled by anybody. An example of media control would be Fox News acting as a right-wing propaganda machine. And please try not to use the word "troll", it really grinds my gears haha
AdrienMitch 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch I take it you covered your eyes at the points where there were FOX and NBC affiliates.
deepfreezefilms1 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch Odd.... That CBS logo at 0:57 looked an awful lot like Fox....
Disciple1955 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch I saw FOX and NBC in there also bud.
prosthetic518 2 months ago
@prosthetic518 you're 100% right
AdrienMitch 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch one of them was definitely a FOX station though. the one at 0:57
bcallahan08 2 months ago
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pgroce 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch I am at a loss to understand what "[t]he main CBS office sending the same story to their local chapters in different cities" is EXCEPT "controlled media."
pgroce 2 months ago
@pgroce different local chapters give out information to different people in specific cities. Main offices simply want consistency of diffused information. Consistency does not equate to control
AdrienMitch 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch except when fox was quoting the same line, but you are right cbs, msnbc and fox are affiliates of the chief media operation, the federal reserve
jaba987 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch
Then how do explain the Fox affiliate at 0:57? You can't even tell what most of the affiliates are because the logos are blurred or not in the shot.
yonskii 2 months ago
@yonskii Ever heard of AP press releases? Put on your tinfoil hat and look for conspiracies elsewhere...
rundownthestreet202 2 months ago
@rundownthestreet202
Haha, usually I am the one telling people to adjust their tin foil hats... the vast control of information through the media by corporations in order to condition society the be sheep so that they can continue to control the world's governments is the only true conspiracy. No reptilians needed.
yonskii 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch
You are the one that needs to "wake up". The reality perceived by most people is all controlled down to the most local and intimate level.
yonskii 2 months ago 2
@AdrienMitch Absolutely. All news agencies are slashing their operating budgets. Many closing foreign news desks, limiting field reporting, and using the AP, Reuters where possible. It's lazy but mostly because they can't afford to compete any longer. This also encourages more polarizing stories and fear mongering to drive up ratings. Hearst did this with news papers in the 30's too.
jimfath 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch You are perhaps mistaken- watch it again and pause it at :58 seconds- then, look at the screen.
50monkfish 2 months ago 8
@50monkfish Pretty sure there's a Fox logo there.
50monkfish 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch reporters operate on auto-pilot...people watch the tube on auto-pilot...people vote on auto-pilot...it doesn't matter if the subject is grape jelly or gun control, if we don't know how to actively separate our absorption of facts from crap, we are primed for control by somebody, because in this environment everything is important and nothing is important. It's not really a conspiracy, just the human race perpetrating a huge disservice to itself.
abcedertree 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch Wrong. Saw at least two that were Fox.
playdoh187 2 months ago 2
@AdrienMitch They were NOT all CBS affiliates....unless FOX is part of CBS now. The point is, this just demonstrates the infrastructure for someone to deliver a message...any message...in a certain way to a lot of people. If you don't think it is used to influnce the masses, you are deluded.
hottubz1965 2 months ago
@hottubz1965 it's probably a partnership agreement for that local affiliate. The FOX station where I live is in the same building as the CBS affiliate and staff is shared between the two stations
niemo810 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch no, they are not all CBS. You can clearly see FOX in a couple shots.
GenocideOwl 2 months ago 18
@GenocideOwl CBS
0:20 WRBL - CBS
0:30 - CBS eyeball in back, can't see station name.
0:39 - KTVL - CBS
0:53 - News Channel 18 is WLFI - CBS
1:02 - KTAB - CBS
1:05 - KLBL - CBS
1:15 - CBS eyeball in scroll
Fox
0:58 - FOX
chapel976 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch What about the crew at 0:58? Looks like a Fox affiliate to me. Do you homework.
GreedyFly46and2 2 months ago
@AdrienMitch Auto pilot = control. The mainstream media is a fraud!
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Pyronaut 2 months ago
All I can hear is my college News Writing professor telling us "Press releases are NOT news...". This does not prove that the "Media is controlled", it just proves that News Directors are lazy, and talking heads on camera read whatever is on the teleprompter in front of them. Shades of Ron Burgundy...
HossPete 2 months ago 2
The're not controlled, there just stupid.
Jackmono1 2 months ago
Indeed
stoptherot1 2 months ago
What originality from our brilliant news media!
tkg2902 2 months ago
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macurdy 2 months ago
Did you guys hear? "Conan Obrien may be about to push the envelope on late night television"
JBMFilmsOfficial 2 months ago
Resources in local broadcast newsrooms are under tremendous pressure from owners and management to turn out a product which attracts viewers, thus advertisers. This is no conspiracy, kids. I wish commenters would deal in facts, not scaredy-cat conspiracy theorgies. Local newsrooms use most of their resources on local stories. National and international stories come from the AP wire, AFP, Reuters and other sources. All these clips show is that non-local stories fro the wire are used verbatim
suziesbro 2 months ago
@suziesbro
We all understand it is canned reports from the networks it is you that doesn't seem to understand the implications of this
OxAO 2 months ago
@OxAO This has NOTHING to do with networks. Some day you will do some research and see how national and international news is gathered and disseminated. No conspiracy. No boogie-men, no matter how much your heart would like it to be so. Newsrooms are filled with conservatives, progressives, independents. Any conspiracy would be quickly revealed. (You might try calling one of you local news directors and ask to visit the newsroom to see how it REALLY works.)
suziesbro 2 months ago
@suziesbro
This has nothing to do with networks putting together canned news? you are delusional
OxAO 2 months ago
anyone ever stop to think that...conan contacted these stations and had them all start their story with this sentence so that he can make this skit?
skrapps914 2 months ago
@skrapps914 Perhaps but it could also be that they put out a press release which started that way. Lots of media outlets simply replicate those releases verbatim because its easier and less time consuming than to write up entirely new material.
notinmyname2050 2 months ago
@skrapps914 This is exactly what happened. Conspiracy nuts are ridiculous - using a LATE NIGHT SHOW that frequently promotes itself for their media-is-controlled idea? Instead of, like, something political?
ThatWasFred 2 months ago
@skrapps914 Doesn't work that way.
suziesbro 2 months ago
I don't see how this is a "conspiracy" local news affiliates are just being lazy and using the same cliche phrase to get the message across. Local news stations get national and international news from common sources like AP but do their own reporting on local events. It's more like how if you work as a cashier and all the customers say the same things and make the same jokes, it's not a conspiracy, it's just that it's easy to use cliches and throwaway phrases.
masterstghm 2 months ago
"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media. We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."– William Casey, CIA Director
thebigwedding 2 months ago 2