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 Classic filler text reads like something you might find in a typical newspaper but is vague enough not to contradict anything the writers have written so far or might want to write for later installments.
They are classic paragraphs that have been used in multiple TV and movie productions. The newspaper has a headline, maybe a byline, a photo and usually a lead paragraph that is relevant to the story.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })But after that, it's all some combination of filler paragraphs, like these two:
In fact, the quoted paragraphs come from an article in a prop newspaper by Earl Hays, whose company, the Earl Hays Press, has been providing Hollywood productions with many other printed props, like Stage Money and fake books, in addition to the fake newspapers, for roughly a century now.
Any filler text can be considered classic filler text if it has appeared in several different productions that are perhaps related only in using the same prop provider. See also Prop Recycling. May overlap with Freeze-Frame Bonus.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This plays into The Law of Conservation of Detail, by not loading more story detail onto a newspaper than is necessary.
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 Back to the Future Part II:
Hill Valley Telegraph, March 16, 1973. The top front page headline reads in almost all-caps "George McFly Murdered" with a subhead "Local Author Shot Dead". After an on-topic paragraph about how the author's wallet was missing and his known activism against BiffCo, there's a paragraph about a new court center that is not mentioned in the dialogue of any of the Back to the Future movies. That paragraph, however, appears in several other movie newspapers, and it is followed by various other classic filler paragraphs. Other stories on the same page have specific headlines that head up filler text only.
USA Today recreated a fictional 2015 front page. The recreation contains no classic filler text. Every story is fully written and specific to the world the movie's set in, such as "3 injured when mom re-hydrates pizza slices".
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