A dramatização no telejornalismo

Abstract

Produced and narrated by Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds (American CBS network radio, 1938) has shown that panic could be caused in the streets by means of some exaggeration in the tellings. This dramatic production was, indeed, too realistic to appear to be false; besides, most of the listeners knew very little about how much journalism can borrow from worksof fiction. Both journalism and dramatic plays are deeply rooted in the French bourgeois revolution (1789) and are now coming close for the reason that TV news resort to theatrical exhibitions as a truly reliable way of attracting public attention.