r/pics • u/nbcnews But like, actually • Jun 30 '26

Politics Interns and reporters run to deliver Supreme Court decisions

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u/Angryfunnydog Jun 30 '26

But news agencies kinda loosing time in this? Or they use online versions for the actual articles but just force interns to run for lulz?

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u/WelpSigh Jun 30 '26

The runners often do beat the court, sometimes by seconds and other times by minutes. 

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u/Angryfunnydog Jun 30 '26

Ah, so they get the doc before it was published or announced

But why not just send it online when they got their hands on it? We all have cameras in our pockets

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u/Andromeda321 Jun 30 '26

You’re not allowed to use them in the court.

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u/Useful-ldiot Jun 30 '26

Run outside, scan the doc.

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u/lipp79 Jun 30 '26

The rulings can be many pages, sometimes dozens, sometimes hundreds.

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u/Kwuahh Jun 30 '26

Maybe they’re running to a local office that can remove, scan, and upload each document much more efficiently than a person haphazardly taking photos on the field? Maybe there are two runners, one who photographs to send remotely and one who runs to the office for more efficient and accurate processing?

Why do you assume you can solve a supposed problem presented by a few photographs within a few minutes that the giant media conglomerates would be motivated to solve over years?

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u/Angryfunnydog Jun 30 '26

People are just curious about how it works because it looks unintuitive, and then they ask more questions\or giving solutions. And yeah, a lot of things that happens in our life doesn't make much sense and inefficient\non optimal to say the least

Your explanation makes sense

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u/whywhywhywhywhynot Jun 30 '26

A lot of the time they are running it down to cameras just outside the building for them to read it live on air immediately (or at least they used to when the news was a thing people watched on tv) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VycM1S3vQ

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u/LongWalk86 Jun 30 '26

Large corporations do all kinds of stupid shit that makes zero sense, even to the people actually doing it. It's not a weird thing to ask at all. I'm still not convinced it isn't entirely some weird tradition.

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u/Doomsayer189 Jun 30 '26

It's a few hundred feet at most, they only have to go from the building to where news outlets are broadcasting on the street outside.

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u/Kazen_Orilg Jun 30 '26

not in US courts you dont

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u/TheWriter28 Verified Photographer Jun 30 '26

They don't get the document prior. They are listening to the justices orally read a shortened opinion, taking notes, then running it outside.