News Voices

Have you ever paid attention to how news reporters on TV sound? It is very dramatic, almost cinematic with its pauses, and it engages the viewers by keeping them in some sort of suspense wondering what's next or what happened. I'm not sure if it's overdone because some news is quite dramatic in itself, but some stories don't warrant that type of effect. I wonder if that says anything about our culture, one that is extremely interested in other peoples' lives and tragedies? I've always thought that clips and soundbites from long ago were strange in the way people spoke in the media, I'm quite sure those of tomorrow will feel the same about ours.