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For example, Bob the jewel thief watches the news triumphantly:

{{quote| '''Reporter:''' "Russian Police are baffled after the mysterious disappearance of the Hungarian crown jewels."}}

{{quote|'''Reporter:''' "Russian Police are baffled after the mysterious disappearance of the Hungarian crown jewels."}}

Bob switches channels.

{{quote| '''New reporter:''' "The jewels, on loan to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, were supposedly protected by a five-million-ruble security system."}}

{{quote|'''New reporter:''' "The jewels, on loan to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, were supposedly protected by a five-million-ruble security system."}}

Bob switches again.

{{quote| '''Yet another reporter:''' "However, at nine o'clock this morning, museum curator Dmitri Chukraj was alarmed to discover that the entire display had somehow been replaced with some Reese's Pieces and a rubber chicken."}}

{{quote|'''Yet another reporter:''' "However, at nine o'clock this morning, museum curator Dmitri Chukraj was alarmed to discover that the entire display had somehow been replaced with some Reese's Pieces and a rubber chicken."}}

And so forth. It's sometimes parodied by having him turn to a channel that normally wouldn't have the news - a Japanese news channel, or MTV - and yet it's still talking about it. Expect a news-phobic [[Apathetic Citizens|Apathetic Citizen]] to stop flipping immediately if they do manage to find anything else on.

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== [[Film]] ==

* Sent up in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]''. Mildly subverted in that only every other channel was showing the news and covering the story, while the other channels conviently filled in the blanks in the sentences with unrelated statements. Eg:

{{quote| '''News''': There has been~~<br />~~

{{quote|'''News''': There has been

'''Morrissey''': ''Panic on the streets of London''' }}

** A much creepier variation occurs later in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'': the characters turn on a TV to find out the news, and [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|every single channel is only showing a Technical Difficulties card.]]