When a fire is burning, it’s only common sense not to add gas fuel to it. But somehow, Television anchors don’t seem to understand that concept. TV anchors often dramatize the news to make a story more appealing to the viewer. After all, it is a form of entertainment. When you’re dealing with the news, is it right to alter the situations to ultimately keep the viewer from changing the channel? We think not!

The public usually doesn’t have the time to read the entire newspaper. Were too busy to actually sit down and read an entire daily newspaper. So when people come home at night, not only are they getting the news, they’re getting a big piece of entertainment too. When the Simi Valley fire broke out, Biblical references were constantly being strewn around.

Channel 4, also known as KNBC does a good job of adding dramatic flair to the news. “The hand of God has slapped the community of Simi Valley across the face!” and “The public seems to wonder when the locust will arrive.” It’s a little unbelievable to think that the first thing on the victim’s mind was that God was sending locust after them.

Over dramatizing is wrong, especially when television anchors are doing it just for the ratings. How about just reporting the news? Is that so wrong? It’s almost as if they are trying to trick the viewer into seeing the news.

Television news is just adding gas fuel to the fire. They make bad situations even worse. A good example of this is the 20th century trend called “car chases.” If television news never would have given so much airtime to people who are running from the law, then maybe the same problem wouldn’t happen repeatedly.

Maybe these vigilantes are participating in “car chases,” because they know that they’ll get 15 minutes of fame. Maybe, if we didn’t give in to their erratic behavior, then we wouldn’t have to fill our selves in on over an hour worth of bad driving.

We believe that television news and their anchors should do what they were hired to do, which is report the news. Don’t glamorize it. There’s no need to. Just tell us what’s going on and stick to the basics. Don’t turn it all into an episode of CSI; Miami. News should be fact, not fiction.