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by giarc 884 days ago
I hate news pages that are just a video. I prefer to just casually read news instead of having to watch a whole video on the topic. I find Apple News shows me a ton of these type of articles (looking at you MSNBC) and I wish I could toggle some option to never see pages like that again.
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wegfawefgawefg 884 days ago
An alternative solution, stop reading the news alltogethor. Replace it with something either more relaxing or more enriching.

IDK what news you read but every news site i know reads like it was written by dums for dums. You owe yourself better.

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az09mugen 881 days ago
The title should have been suffixed with ' [video]' according to HN guidelines.
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dylan604 884 days ago
I mean, MSNBC is a cable news channel, so taking clips of its feed and reusing them as news posts is only logical. It's not like they have an army of writers creating news articles. They find things for their hosts to blab about in front of a camera. If you don't like that style, remove it from your feed. Apple News provides tools to remove/hide specific sources from your feed. Complaining about MSNBC providing video only clips is like complaining the Detroit Lions never plays baseball. That's not what they do
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Karellen 884 days ago
Most news anchors don't just wing it though, except in the rare case of live breaking news. The vast majority of the time they read a prepared script off a teleprompter, which is written by - you guessed it - writers. Sometimes the anchors are also the writers, and sometimes they don't always stick 100% to the script, but whoever wrote it and whether it was followed aside, there is a script. I don't see why news channels couldn't publish it alongside the video - it would be useful for hearing-impaired audience at least.
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dylan604 884 days ago
scripts and news articles are not the formatted the same. you wishing something was so just because it was convenient to you does not mean it is magically simple to do. posting news articles is not the wheel house of an MSNBC. they are an organization centered around delivering a video news feed. when all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail
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