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A good friend of ours is a closed caption guy for a sports station, and from what we hear it is pretty stressful stuff, having to plug in all those names and looking up random information with little to no warning. We sympathize, truly, but we also take great delight in those moments when captioners [...]

For ten days in May of 2009, the street artist RIPO used news headlines as inspiration for a painting that he then covered with another painting of the following day’s news–a commentary on the over-saturation of media and fleeting nature of news–before peeling back a strip for each day to created a spectacularly striped, multicolor [...]

Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

Though we recently regaled you with some of the most memorable newscaster bloopers, it seems unfair to single out media professionals’ pitfalls without highlighting some of the stresses they endure as well. For instance, Epic Carnival’s listicle of the 20 Strangest Moments in Newscasting History features some awesomely unlikely accidents, like uncontrollable reptiles.

Obviously, New York news anchor Ernie Anasto’s recent comment to his co-worker and weatherman colleague Nick Gregory has been making the rounds, but it’s hardly the most extreme accidental comment by a television personality, nor is it especially spectacular alongside some of the ridiculous slip-ups featured in TIME’s listicle of the Top 10 Newscaster Bloopers. [...]