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Conan O’Brien noticed something really odd about a whole bunch of local news broadcasts who all seemed to do the same report about Valentine’s Day online:
The only logical explanation I can come up with is that there’s someone writing the same copy for all these stations. Possibly because they’re all owned by the same company?
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@CSK: Communications companies can and do own affiliates of different networks in different markets.
But they are all secretly operating out of Area 51.
My first thought was “wire story.” A story from AP or one of the other newswires will usually come with introductory copy. My second thought was “press release.” When PR companies put out press releases and/or suggested scripts, media outlets, especially smaller outlets, will often take the PR copy and run with it without any editing whatsoever.
