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This video pretty much nails what's become the standard formula for the modern video news story. Note the cadance in the dialog as well... and the difficulty in making out everything the "man on the street" interviewees are saying.

Two things it's missing: Subtitles for what people are saying, even if we can understand them perfectly and the banter back at the newsdesk after the story that compeltely undercuts any seriousness that may have been present in the story itself.

How does your local newscast stack up? Do they use this formula, too?

Anyone who's been paying attention to the state of the economy over the past decade or three has seen clearly what's illustrated in this wonderful cartoon.

Having a "Fiscal Conservative" in office should lead to lower deficits, right? So why hasn't it quite worked that way?

They keep using that word... I do not think it means, what they think it means.