America's Most Wanted, Sensationism:
For those of you who don't know, I used to watch the show America's Most Wanted in my childhood. I watched it every week. The show used to scare me. And I was afraid to walk by windows afterwards. And I kind of liked the horror aspect of it. Sometimes real life can be scarier than fiction.
I realize the show was kind of sensationalistic that was entertainment in nature. Yes, what happened was real stories and John Walsh had good intentions and captured many dangerous people, but they would obviously air vignettes that were a little cheesy reenacting what took place, little segments and vignettes where they reenacted what took place in the crime.
And obviously that kind of sensationalizes the crimes, but yeah, it led to captures and saving people's lives and such.
Have you ever seen the show Long Island's Most Wanted on the local network? It's dull photo after photo. No sensationalism. It's as boring as boring can be. Basically, there's no point in watching it. The biggest crimes you'll see is "this guy stole a DVD player from Best Buy in Levittown. Call if you've seen him." The only excitement there is I know exactly where that location is. It used to be in my old hometown. I'm like, "Oh, that's the Best Buy in my hometown."
Then every now and then dramatic music will start playing and they'll say, "There was a murder in Hempstead. Be careful. This guy is armed and dangerous." And those are serious unlike the DVD player thieves.
Obviously, for a while, up until like 2019 / 2020 I had the dream of maybe them creating a movie about my life. And let's say they did that. I bet my mother would protest "don't sensationalize and dramatize what happened. Make it as accurate as can be."
But, obviously Hollywood likes to dramatize everything and it gets to a point where you have to be a little dramatic, and play music, and do entertainment. Otherwise, it would be dull and boring like reading a college textbook, a snooze fest. Not entertaining at all.