Local news journalists regularly take a number of mockery for being corny or shallow or terribly edited; but Conan O’Brien put together a brilliant clip-reel that demonstrates native information writers might just be downright lazy.

After viewing the beneath clip, one has to wonder how so many native news anchors all say the same precise lines throughout their introduction to Christmas procuring stories. “Who’re you in point of fact purchasing for this vacation season? It’s ok, that you could admit in case you sold an item or two or ten for yourself,” greater than two dozen anchors all say, with some adaptations sprinkled throughout.

Merely spectacular.

We searched TVEyes and found that these native reports spanned from Alexandria, Louisiana all of the means up to Burlington, Vermont. The one approach for this to were a conspiracy can be if Conan reached out to the individual stations and recruited them for some form of Kimmel-esque prank on Americans.

Otherwise, if it is a completely organic accident, we’re just going to claim that possibly it’s straightforward for native news anchors to make eerily identical statements as a result of, well, local news tropes are pretty straightforward to repeat.

So is this a Conan prank or only a really awful twist of fate? Watch under and decide, by means of TBS:

[h/t FTVLive]

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