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To: LindyBill who wrote (84942)11/8/2004 9:22:33 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793782
 
I figured they were using a lot of stock footage.

WHO TOOK THAT FOOTAGE?
By Cori Dauber

CBS tonight introduced their reporter Elizabeth Palmer by saying she was reporting "from the battlefield" on Fallujah. I'm guessing from that they gain enough cachet when their people are willing to embed that if their reporters are embedded, they'll mention it.

So far it seems as if (in broadcast) Fox has two (one of which is this retired military officer they're using), and ABC has one. CBS has one in the environs of Fallujah -- NBC's reporter is still filing his stories from Baghdad.

While raises the question: where are they all getting their footage from?

Because it isn't just the simple fact that no camera crew is going in unless they're with military units (although, since they're interested in filming the military units that wouldn't just be dangerous but self-defeating) it's also something I noticed with all the surfing that the average viewer wouldn't: they're all using the same footage.

It isn't immediately apparent because they aren't using all the same footage. It's a few seconds here and a few seconds there that crop up on overlapping networks, and while a few seconds are shared by Fox and CBS, a few other seconds are shared between CBS and ABC, which shares a few second with NBC, and Fox.

Which means they're all getting the same raw feed and just editing it differently.

And that means either they're all buying footage from AP or Reuters TV, or that they've put into the field a single camera crew staffed by representatives of multiple nets -- what they did last April, actually.
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