Another example to my mind is the way NBC News Overnight used to get stories from their own network correspondents (they had an almost negative budget). They told them to take a story that Nightly News had "committeed" down to a minute-twenty and re-cut it to the length it needed. As long as the facts were good, Overnight would run it as submitted.

Even though these were professionals doing work for a profesisonal outlet, the attitude was IMO fannish.