Just saw a Facebook post where people were asking how ABC made a special about Rob Reiner so quickly and accusing it of being AI, even though this has been done with celebrities for a long time. He was 78, they figured he’d die soonish. The first part of the special is about the murder but the majority of it is recapping his life and career, they probably had most of it put together well in advance.
Remember when Biden dropped out of the presidential race and the media kept recapping his life and career? I’m convinced they were playing stuff they had put together for when he dies.
Yes, at the newspaper I worked it was called “the fridge”, and people, specially interns, were tasked to put together stories about people who was likely to die next into the fridge when they weren’t working on anything else.