We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
People want to have a voice and a say in what is news.
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
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.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.