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?
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.
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman… TLDR the news is entertainment
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.
In a way this might be explained away with changing expectations by the audience or it’s a way to grab audience attention. I think it also depends which media you consume and how that’s funded. I think public broadcasters like the BBC are less likely to add music to their proper news segments than CBS because they don’t need to sell commercials for pharmaceuticals with an unending list of side effects. In my European view, American news at least since CNN became a thing has always had an emphasis on form over function with more pretty people reading the news, sound effects, animated graphics, breaking news alerts, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of that has filtered through elsewhere as well.
Music on news is nothing new though. I remember Enya infused VTs of collapsing World Trade Centers and videos of the tsunami and exploding nuclear reactors in line with some trip hop beat. And I remember people getting mad about that back then as well.
How else would we know how to feel about it?
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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
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.
