El alto nivel de grafismo (
graphicness) o el tiempo dedicado a la expresion de efectos espectaculares provoca reacciones emocionales que arrastran el rechazo de lo visto y, por consiguiente, de quien lo ha provocado.
Due to the changing practices of publication without the necessity of a journalistic gatekeeper, conceptual terms such as reliability, accuracy, verifiability, excessive
graphicness and contextualisation are reconsidered in the course of examples.
"I don't care if I'm being one of those old fogies who says 'Back in my day we didn't have to hear about sex all the time.' They're ruining us with all the explanations and
graphicness," she said.
There is an economic, high-velocity,
graphicness to the action: At one point, a knife severs her Achilles tendon; at another, she removes a knife from her abdomen, implying self-mutilation.
Yet Jaques' murder received far greater coverage, being unprecedented in its extent and
graphicness (Brock 1998).