Certainly, the evening news is formulaic. When you are flipping through the stations and you chance upon a news station, you know instantly that you are watching the news. Something about the camera work, the type of shot, I don’t know. But you can just tell.

I probably didn’t realize exactly how formulaic it was, until I watched this video: the most generic news report of all time:

So apparently things aren’t any better across the pond, either.