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On occasion, a film or TV show will feature a news segment discussing events happening within the show. The fictional scene stars an actual newscaster who delivers that sort of segment in [[Real Life]].
Related to [[Practical Voice Over]], where the voices are frequently recognizable newscasters. Sometimes achieved in [[
[[Sister Trope]] to [[Leno Device]], which uses a talk show or other nonfiction entertainment, rather than a straight news program. Subtrope of [[As Himself]] and [[The Cameo]]. Not to be confused with [[Kent Brockman News]], though it can certainly take that role.
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* Jules Asner and Steve Kmetko from E! News Daily show up in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', where Jules gets to read a cleaned-up version of Jay's [[Cluster F-Bomb|profanity-laced tirades]] on the air:
{{quote|"Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax "expletive-deleted" who are making the Bluntman and Chronic movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our "expletive-deleted", then "expletive-deleted", which is made up of our "expletive-deleted", then eat their "expletive-deleted", which is made up of our "expletive-deleted" that we made 'em eat. [[Quote Swear Unquote|Unquote.]]"}}
* ''[[It Happened Here]]''. A chilling version occurs in this [[Alternate History]] film about a Nazi-occupied Britain, where veteran wartime BBC radio announcers Alvar Lidell and John Snagge give their voice to fascist propaganda [[
* Woody Allen's "Bananas" had both Roger Grimsby and Howard Cosell making news broadcasts of a particularly idiotic nature.
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** BBC News presenter Richard Baker made some appearances in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. He also appeared in ''[[The Goodies]]'', along with Michael Aspel and others.
** ''[[Yes Minister]]'' borrowed a number of reasonably well known BBC reporters and interviewers (such as Ludovic Kennedy, Sue Lawley, and Nicholas Witchell) to report on the events of the episode (and occasionally to interact with the titular minister - at least once in the talk-show format, but also at least once to conduct a regular journalistic interview).
** This is the main reason ''[[Ghostwatch]]'' managed to fuck with so many
** Aversion: The head of BBC News banned their reporters from working with their [[Panel Game]] ''[[The Bubble]]'', where contestants, having been hidden from the world for a week, have to identify real news stories intertwined with fake ones.
* [[Spike Milligan]] did a sketch where Corbett Woodall read an ordinary-sounding news bulletin while Milligan shouted out the newsreader's inner monologue. (Although Woodall wasn't all that well known at the time.)
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