At the same time, portrayals of the pair as good cop/bad cop are useful in the negotiations with Athens.
This immediacy is reflected in the real-time portrayal of her experience, although a surfeit of detail sometimes threatens to muffle the story's power: the day-to-day panic, the bartering with some unknown god for a few more days of life, the well-intentioned fools who offer empty condolences.
In her column, Ms. Landro wrote: "I believe that The Seattle Times' portrayal of events, while it certainly made for a dramatic tale, is fundamentally false.
"No fair reading of this report can support the Times' portrayal," Soss wrote in an expanded version of his argument, which was published in Jacobin on Monday.
Police officials said the calls typically were punctuated with alarming real-time portrayals of what was supposedly taking place inside the victim's home.
Playing neither a sexy ingenue nor a frumpy "Rosanne" type, Ms. Cusack - along with her co-stars, Jessica Hecht and Donna Murphy, who play her best friends - is attempting to plow some new middle ground in prime time's portrayal of women.
At the same time, the portrayal of Madonna as "porno queen object" is deconstructed by the escape at the end of the video.
In addition, it has been noted that over time, the portrayal of husbands and wives in an intimate, romantic relationship has been on the rise.
At this time SP portrayal is not regularly assessed, and it is generally assumed that they are following guidelines and that training is appropriate.
There was no effect of time on portrayal for all the cases irrespective of the track and the location (Case B was the only station recorded at two locations).
The Hollywood Reporter said it gave "a racy and at times uproarious portrayal" of well-documented events, though it described the film's two-hour running time as "taxing".
