(And note that they are trying to produce riveting, dramatic television coverage, after all).
Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.
Despite the president's deliberate attempt to talk down the markets and the media's dramatic warnings of economic Armageddon posed by a mere 17% of the government remaining temporarily idle, the S&P 500 closed at a record high the day after the shutdown ended.
The study did say that storms, starfish attacks and coral bleaching were responsible for the dramatic loss of coral cover on the reef.
Family planning officials will make home visits and offer counselling and financial advice in a dramatic shift away from the 30-year priority of simply keeping the population down.
Conservationists have recorded dramatic and rare video of the African golden cat, the continent's least-studied wild cat.
Many commentators noted that the letter, like the Republican invitation to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to address Congress last week without consulting the White House, marked a dramatic break from the tradition that partisan politics should "stop at the water's edge" and not spread into critical US defence and security policy abroad.
Our history is full of bad decisions that led to dramatic changes.
So if the beginning of his care was at times dramatic and shocking – and it was then on to helping mum get up to speed on incontinence products – the second stage was agonisingly prolonged.
Hypothermia expert Tomasz Darocha told the Polish PAP news agency that until now the most dramatic case of recovery from hypothermia involved a Scandinavian woman whose body temperature had dropped to 13.7C.
It was dramatic in its way but it was concocted drama.
