Friday, October 17, 2008

TV News

Television writing looks to me to be very difficult. There is only so much time they have for each story. This means that the writing must be boiled down to just the essentials. The choice of words needs to be specific to the target audience which I imagine changes from story to story. This creates quite a challenge.

I was wondering how the writers write so as to portray the voice of the individual news cast. Do they write as a single voice for the station as a whole?

I also find it interesting that they are often times able to get in all of the news stories and interject their personal character. Some do this better than others. Those that are good at it tend to grab my attention more easily.

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