A word that has become very loaded, especially when it comes to television.
* Its basic definition is, essentially, "staging of a story." It isn't just creating a story but expressing it, presenting it to the audience in an art form. Even if the story is true it has to be presented like a fictional account, such as depicting the exact words spoken in a conversation where no one possess a transcript of it.
* When a story is Ripped from the Headlines or Inspired By a true story, this word means "we changed a bunch of stuff to make it less boring." Or else it's something whose publication in gory detail can be tolerated only if the creators can say But It Really Happened!. Or both.
* As a commercial disclaimer, it means, "We used special effects to make this commercial, so don't exp
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| - A word that has become very loaded, especially when it comes to television.
* Its basic definition is, essentially, "staging of a story." It isn't just creating a story but expressing it, presenting it to the audience in an art form. Even if the story is true it has to be presented like a fictional account, such as depicting the exact words spoken in a conversation where no one possess a transcript of it.
* When a story is Ripped from the Headlines or Inspired By a true story, this word means "we changed a bunch of stuff to make it less boring." Or else it's something whose publication in gory detail can be tolerated only if the creators can say But It Really Happened!. Or both.
* As a commercial disclaimer, it means, "We used special effects to make this commercial, so don't exp
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| - A word that has become very loaded, especially when it comes to television.
* Its basic definition is, essentially, "staging of a story." It isn't just creating a story but expressing it, presenting it to the audience in an art form. Even if the story is true it has to be presented like a fictional account, such as depicting the exact words spoken in a conversation where no one possess a transcript of it.
* When a story is Ripped from the Headlines or Inspired By a true story, this word means "we changed a bunch of stuff to make it less boring." Or else it's something whose publication in gory detail can be tolerated only if the creators can say But It Really Happened!. Or both.
* As a commercial disclaimer, it means, "We used special effects to make this commercial, so don't expect our product to actually do this stuff." Applied to a lot of truck ads. (See Do Not Attempt). Also applied to "endorsements" by "ordinary people", who are in fact actors reading scripts. (This latter meaning has recently been subverted by: a series of ads for satellite TV in which famous actors do readings of ordinary people's letters to the satellite TV company; a series of car-insurance commercials featuring an actual celebrity seated with an actual customer, attempting to make their stories more gripping, usually by poking fun of their own image.)
* Accompanies less-than-accurate reenactments on "true-crime" shows like Americas Most Wanted. Examples of Dramatization include:
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