Why all the news channels we see today uses background musics and flashy animations instead of directly telecasting the news to it’s audience?
Is there any advantage on putting specific background musics on each clips they telecast? Isn’t a direct telecast without any added things is a more clean and direct way to broadcast news to the audience?
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman… TLDR the news is entertainment
Imagine a court hearing being filled with Super Mario sound effects, laughter, and commentary like a sports broadcast.
That’s exactly what news programs that use music, sound effects, and commentators who are little more than gawkers are doing.
That’s not reporting; it’s merely a show that looks like it, a desecration of reality.
That’s why I prefer the old-fashioned form of media news, using text and images.
Of course, this also involves arbitrary intentions and editing, but the problems are far less severe than with video.
Websites in Thailand have turned black and white to mourn King Bhumibol’s death
It’s mostly to make an identity for the broadcaster/channel/show, so that the viewer or listener instantly and instictively know what they are watching.
As soon as you hear background music, you’re 100% site it’s not journalism, and it’s a manipulation of what’s being shown.
True journalism shows facts. Adding music sways emotions.
How else would we know how to feel about it?
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Why someone need bgm to feeling something? So what about real time incidents happening infront of us? Do someone play bgm at the exact moment?
I’ve never noticed that. Is it something new? Maybe it’s to get in the way of AI scraping (automatic transcription of the audio track, fed into LLM). Kind of a nonstop audio CAPTCHA.
