Now, I know it’s unfair to tar every TV news report with the same brush, particularly as the clip I’m going to show you comes from a Fox News affiliate. But still, it does kind of speak to the medium. I can just see how this went down in the newsroom:

Reporter: There’s this great story about a bear terrorizing this lady.

Producer: Can you get pictures of the bear? I don’t want a god-damned story about a bear without video of a frickin’ bear.

Reporter: No problem. I’m sure we’ll be able to get pictures.

Producer: Okay. If you’re going to waste the whole afternoon with a camera crew, we have to have pictures.

Reporter: Don’t worry. There will be a bear in the story.

You can find it here if the embed thingy doesn’t work. At least the report finally answers the question: “does a bear scat in the woods?”

Alltop and humor-blogs.com also enjoy going in the woods.