There’s a McLuhan-grounded expectation with television news that what the viewer is seeing is unaltered except for obvious editing.* My first career was in TV news and I know that any of the staff I worked with would be horrified by this development in presenting what some in the business call “actualities” (which don’t usually involve kids materialising mid-clip).
[* ETA: the obvious editing in and of itself allows less scrupulous news outlets plenty of room for dirty tricks]
