Saturday 16 November, 2024

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With their cameras banned from court, this Cleveland news team came up with a novel replacement. Did we hear you say ‘squirrel puppets’?

HOW TO COVER a big corruption trial when your cameras are banned from the courtroom? That was the dilemma faced by Cleveland, Ohio media outfit 19 Action News.

And they came up with one easy solution: Squirrel puppets.

I know – it seems obvious when you think about it. Here’s how the report went down:

(Video: 19ActionNews)

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