Actual investigative journalism: who needs it?
At least, that's what some people will likely conclude after watching these fake news reports from the Newseum, a museum dedicated to exploring the role of journalism in America. Sage Boggs, a reporter from。 Mic 。Mic。
, recently discovered videos uploaded to YouTube from a Newseum exhibit that invites guests to pretend to be reporters. 。SEE ALSO:Scottish students receive exam results, Twitter responds hilariously 。
Put down your paper, turn off your TV: this is news you need to hear.。
For the exhibit, called "Be a Reporter," guests stand in front of a blue screen and teleprompter while reporting news "out in the field." Guests read lines right off the teleprompter and get a real taste of what it's like to be a broadcast journalist. 。
A few guests chose not to listen to instructions and instead improvised their own news reports. Sometimes this involved dancing. Other times, singing. And every once in a while, a beautifully passive aggressive birth announcement.。
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But now, millions everywhere can watch a reporter called Buttface tell us the Supreme Court is "basically useless."。
What is this man doing? The world may never, should never know. 。
Keep on dancin' your way to our hearts, Ashley. 。
We are all Dancin Ashley pic.twitter.com/7adOSjasL1 。
— Sage Boggs (sageboggs) August 25, 2016 。
Fact: Boo Boo loves you more than you love yourself. 。
Has weather ever been this spicy?
Meet your favorite journalist of all time. 。
If I had to commentate on sports this is almost exactly what I would sound like pic.twitter.com/bCTLJYFYfF 。
Back to you, Internet. 。
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