Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.