I Never Thought I'd See It...

I never thought I'd see the day a network news organization tried to fake a reporter being on-scene. Congratulations to NBC 2.0 for pulling it off.

NBC Nightly News is clearly trying to make you think the reporter pictured above is standing on-scene near a Florida wildfire. The casual dress... the baseball cap... nobody dresses like that in the studio. But this reporter clearly is in the studio, standing in front of a chroma-wall overlaid with video, just like a TV meteorologist would do with weather graphics. The back of her shoulders and the top of her hat are getting blasted from above by studio lights, and check out that killer shadow on her forehead.

Brian Williams was very careful never to say she was in Florida; instead, she was simply reporting on the fires.