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Yes, the fact that the ticker is seemingly based on scraping website headlines does lead to a lot of bizarre out-of-context stories on the ticker, which sort of undermines its purpose. Obviously, the switch to this system was due to some form of staffing cutback, but surely it isn't beyond the realms of technology for online story writers/editors to be able to add an alt-title for tickers etc.

Somehow BBC World News ticker has been more prone to that sort of gaffes than News Channel's one. May be they installed some sort of filter on the NC's ticker like "Do NOT pick up titles from "Features and Analysis" section"...