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• ToasterFaerie commented on Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
  This actually happened. "...it seems the flood of news - official or otherwise - had dried up. Listeners who tuned in to hear the bulletin on Good Friday itself were informed: "There is no news." Piano music followed." http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm...
• MonkeyT commented on Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
  Didn't Bloom County do something like this decades ago? I think it ended with "Tonight, on Nightline, Ted Koppell will interview his cat, Winkie."...
• buddy66 commented on Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
  Jim Bouton, ex-New York Yankee pitcher, had a later job at a NYC network(?) flagship station where he did the nightly sports news. One night he announced, 'Absolutely nothing happened today in the world of sports,' and signed off. Anyway, that's what he claims.......
• Chris Applegate commented on Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
  I have to agree with Futwick - Armando Ianucci did this first, and better by cutting it in with different stations. If this video was in any way inspired or taken from the original then due credit should be given. Liked the music though....
• digitaltoast commented on Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
  "Pixelsurgeon has remixed a bunch of BBC news-footage" - has he now? In exactly the same way that Adam Buxton did in January last year? Rip-off!...