As David Corvo, the NBC News executive in charge of "Dateline," put it, "It's got good guys, bad guys, conflict over something that matters, suspense and then resolution — the classic elements of drama and great storytelling".
The media flocks to bad news, conflict, grid-lock, failure.
They create a public spectacle, a narrative that distills dull subjects like contract negotiations into a good-guy, bad-guy conflict — a Harvard Business School case study turns into a shootout with Liberty Valance.
The characters are not good or bad but conflicted.
The characterization stemmed from a desire to make the Covenant more basically "evil" in order to provide a good guy-bad guy conflict.
Happily for those of us who have observed this ashen-faced celebrity-magnet with scepticism from the start, Assange has crowned a year of bad-tempered conflicts by falling out with himself and introducing to the language that novelty the "unauthorised autobiography".
It also addresses the question: is all conflict bad?" The main exhibition area has some artifacts of war, like a Harrier jet used by the United States Marines, a Soviet tank and a World War I artillery piece.
Given that TMZ is a part of Time Warner, it would seem that the site's interest in exposing celebrities' bad behavior might conflict with the overall interest of the parent company that employs some of those same stars.
Apart from a few brief lectures on the relative merits of unity (good) and conflict (bad), the story skirts past lulls and doldrums, unveils a sprightly new heroine named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella), and lays out the set pieces, in Kirk's words, "the old-fashioned way".
Learning how to help astronauts deal with issues like bad food, group conflict, and long mundane days in cramped quarters could inform potential future Mars missions, the researchers say.
