# What do newsreaders do when they're not reading the news?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-newsreaders-do-when-theyre-not-reading-the-news/413951 "2007-08-01T09:29:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-newsreaders-do-when-theyre-not-reading-the-news/413951/21 "2007-08-01T15:47:03Z")

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The folks upstairs get their daily orders from the assignment editor and hit the street with their camera person. Thats the news readers.

The morning show people are here around 3:30 a.m. doing prep for when they’re on at 6.

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**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-newsreaders-do-when-theyre-not-reading-the-news/413951/22 "2007-08-01T17:05:40Z")

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[QUOTE=2gigch1]  
But then again I have yet to witness any portrayal of my industry to accurately indicate how it really works. Amazingly, IMHO, Groundhog Day is about the least incorrect.  
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**Broadcast News** got a lot of it right as well.

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