Only near the end does the cat finally close its eyes. With that almost human look of exasperation at 1:07 ("why me!"), I'd like to guess it was just short of annoyance.
It would have been nice if there had been a bit more video telling us which pet had claimed the prime spot in front of the space heater first.
I'm guessing the dog took the bed, slightly back from the heater. The cat took the spot in between, then the dog decided to stretch out and found the cat there and the pussycat wasn't going to move out of the way, so it became a pillow. The cat looked like it was trying to decide if the indignity of being made a dog pillow was worth leaving the warm spot and getting dog stink on his/her fur.
When you send a video news story to a radio/tv station, you send along a pre-written "suggested intro/outro" with it. Apparently, none of the anchors bothered to write their own intro. ALL of them used the canned verbiage sent out by Conan's PR people.
@WordyGrrl, not quite true. When you send a press release to the media you send your own version of the story. It has been thus since there was such a thing as PR. What used to happen was that journalists would take the story, research it and write their own copy. All this shows is that these days there are fewer real journalists than there once were and that people posing as journalists don't write their own copy, but regurgitate press releases wholesale.
Of course a good PR person has always known how to manipulate the system. Send your release to the news desk so late that they don't have time to do any work on it, but not so late that it won't make it out. With printed news and old fashioned TV this was pretty easy to do. Which is why a story would change between the early and later editions or the 6pm and 10pm news.
When rolling news came along what should have happened is that the story would go out almost per press release the first time and then get worked on through the day. This does not seem to happen.
Their used to be a saying that a good news story almost writes itself. It would seem that modern "journalists" have misunderstood this maxim.
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I'm guessing the dog took the bed, slightly back from the heater. The cat took the spot in between, then the dog decided to stretch out and found the cat there and the pussycat wasn't going to move out of the way, so it became a pillow. The cat looked like it was trying to decide if the indignity of being made a dog pillow was worth leaving the warm spot and getting dog stink on his/her fur.
We'll never know.
lol
Of course a good PR person has always known how to manipulate the system. Send your release to the news desk so late that they don't have time to do any work on it, but not so late that it won't make it out. With printed news and old fashioned TV this was pretty easy to do. Which is why a story would change between the early and later editions or the 6pm and 10pm news.
When rolling news came along what should have happened is that the story would go out almost per press release the first time and then get worked on through the day. This does not seem to happen.
Their used to be a saying that a good news story almost writes itself. It would seem that modern "journalists" have misunderstood this maxim.