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Q. As a former news director, how do you view user-submitted photo and video content?

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it’s coming from, but you might not have a handle on how you got it. Did you get it
because somebody had just simply gone out and shot video or recorded sound and did
nothing else but just send it to you? Or was there some kind of editing in the pre-stages
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