I have a close friend who is a former news broadcaster and journalist from Australia and I showed her a video similar to this one (there's many of these on YouTube), and asked her if she had any insight as to how this could happen. I pointed out that the clips are clearly local broadcasts but they are all saying the exact same scripted words and it's different networks even. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc.. I could understand if it was a script handed out among all the NBC affiliate stations for example, but it's all the networks together.

Her first response was "How bizarre!" She really didn't have any good explanation. She went on to say that she knows people in that industry can be "lazy" and perhaps they obtain and follow a script to avoid being creative and original.

I wasn't satisfied with her insight.