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by majewsky 3777 days ago
I don't think it's zeitgeist only. Or at least, not on such a short scale. The pre-internet equivalent of that is interviewing random people on the street about current events, to fill the 2:30 of your news report with something vaguely related to the subject.

Like in Charlie Brooker's "How to report the news": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI