"David Lang" wrote in message
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It seems to be necessary on news programs to have someone at the scene of
the news for no apparent reason.

T'other night it was "Now over to Fred Bloggs at Hove Crown Court". As it
was 6:45 the court was closed so there was no point in Fred being there.

It's like the Sun 'newspaper', if they do a story about, for example cows on
a motorway, it will have a stock photo of some fresians, with the words
'some cows yesterday' underneath. This is to remind their readers what cows
look like presumably