VNR's can be both positive and negative. For news stations, they can help fill up time on a slow news day, and they can help the network save money by not having to pay someone to go get a story if they just receive it from a PR firm. I think that VNR's do create lazy journalism. This in turn, could cause reporters to eventually be replaced unless they get off their butts to go get the story. VNR's will only give networks reasons to fire more employees to cut costs.
Also, I have a problem with just getting your video from one source that is not objective. If you want to just take one side of the story that is biased and run it, then what is going to stop others from just releasing their own video. For example, where does this end. I mean it is not to unimaginable that the White House start releasing their own packages to news outlets, and not letting others report on stories. I could really see something like that happen, if that is what journalists accept.
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