When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
People tend not to dwell on drama.