Fox News is now employing a van of some sort to file news reports. This pushes the concept of totally unnecessary on-location reporting to new heights. Have you ever wondered why, for example, a reporter needs to be standing in front of an empty government building at 10 p.m. to file a report on that recent City Council issue, or why a reporter is standing in front of a store where something happened 5 days ago?
Well, Fox News will do you one better. They'll just show you some guy that may or may not be on his way to anywhere in particular. He's just in a van. He may be helping a friend move a couch for all we know.
The one report I saw appeared to start in a parking lot and then I guess it must have occurred to someone that even the already negligible value of reporting from a van would be lost if it weren't, you know, moving or something. The parallels between this and the "Terror-Alert Van" parodied on The Onion are somewhat staggering.
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They have to justify the cost of the van. Sadly, use is more important that quality of use. But that still doesn't explain the apparent need of a reporter to stand in pounding surf as a hurricane come in.
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