[anigbrowl]

Audio pro here - I record dialog for film and TV. It doesn't sound edited to me at all. Cutting the audio in slightly ahead or behind the camera image is so usual that such cuts have their own names - J cuts sand L cuts, respectively. Doing so provides a sense of editing momentum (which is quite important in news) and rather than being particularly considered it's just a cookie-cutter technique. Bear in mind that TV segments like this are just product to the people who make them, and are assembled with about as much contemplation as a hamburger. When you're cranking these stories out day after day you're not very invested in any of them, just enough to sketch out the issue in an attention grabbing way.