However, one company in Taiwan is creating pictures and some media ethicists are worried those animations could one day creep into newscasts.

"As long as the animation is a direct interpretation of the text we have, we haven't crossed the line," Next Media founder Jimmy Lai said.

According to the BBC, Next Media in Taiwan hires actors to recreate scenes from the newspaper: robberies, hijackings, its Tiger Woods recreation drew 3,000,000 views.

Is this news? And could computer animation with actors ever creep into local newscasts?

"I think if it gets cheap enough it could come into local news, and a lot of people are worried about that but frankly I just think it's a tool," KOMU's News Director Stacey Woelfel said. "You can use it for good or you can use it for evil, if you make up things that we don't know for sure have happened, then that would be an evil use of the tool, but if we use it to illustrate things that we know happened but we don't have video of, then that could make television news more informative and easier to watch."

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