Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bogan. So today we're going to talk about a cottage

industry that exists within the news media, within journalism. It's an industry that I'm sure most people know exists, but they may not

understand how it works and because they don't understand how it works sometimes

they add two and two and come up with 17. So we're going to talk about it.

This was an industry I was a part of for a few years. For those that don't know, I was a journalist. I started as a photo years. For those that don't know I was a journalist I started as a photo

journalist. This applies to not just photojournalist but also

videographers. The same scenario it's done a little bit different but not much.

So I would go out and to an event or whatever a newsworthy event and I would take photos and then those

photos would be sold or licensed to various agencies news, and they would use them. Now I think everybody knows this

happens, which you may not know is that I haven't photographed a protest involving the group

Anonymous in, I don't know, five years. They're still using the photos. File photos, stock photography, file footage,

it's incredibly common. It's used all the time.

However, there are those people who see that and they say,

well, that photo actually happened in DC and they're talking about a protest that happened in

LA.

And for some reason, they make the assumption that that means the LA protest didn't happen. It's not how it works. Media outlets today don't have

bureaus the way they used to. They don't have little offices all over the world.

They count on freelancers and if they can't get a freelancer there if somebody

doesn't show up and then offer to sell them the photos, they use stock footage, they use stock photography.

It's not evidence of a conspiracy.

It's evidence of the consumer's desire to constantly have visual input.

When you're talking about footage, now this is not an industry I had anything to do with,

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