Nowadays, new forms of mass media such as documentaries are more “expressive” than “representative”. They stir up excitement and exaggerate the footage to attract the audiences, rather than focusing on being representative and finding the truth. No one really questioned the truth of documentaries because documentaries were supposed to show the truth. Footage in the documentary looks like it’s very raw and unplanned and they’re supposed to make us feel like everything is very trueful. On the other hand, fiction is very thoroughly planned out but in some way they are also revealing its truthful side. The story in fiction might not be true but the emotion and the plot of the story is realistic.
Media tend to exaggerate the topic so that it could attract a larger audience. Some change up the truth to make it sound interesting and some use lies to cover the truth. The role of live broadcast is to give the audience the real, unedited and raw footage of the live scene. It connects the audience more when the broadcast is live. Live broadcast is more truthful because there is no redoing its part. It has only one try and if something goes wrong, then we can’t do anything about it because it’s already broadcasted live to the world.