Joyce Nelson Presentness

Television has witnessed a revolutionary technological advancement especially in the last two decades. However, it was in early1980’s when audience truly experienced the change in the structure of the news programs due to technology. The famous writer Joyce Nelson suggests how the news program’s craving for the up-to-the-minute coverage and being present at every important events led to this technological revolution. In her article “TV News: A structure of Reassurance,” Nelson analyses the idea of “presentness” which was widely being adopted by the news programs back then, to be authentic or not.
Nelson reveals how the news programs have succeeded in creating the illusion of presentness. She begins by writing that the only time that a news