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Supposing a character or characters are watching a show on TV (news maybe) how should that be formatted in the text? I've found some explanations on how to format TV broadcasts in a screenplay (in...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:38:36Z (over 4 years ago)
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Quentin Engles
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2019-12-08T10:38:36Z (over 4 years ago)
Supposing a character or characters are watching a show on TV (news maybe) how should that be formatted in the text? I've found some explanations on how to format TV broadcasts in a screenplay (in this website) but not how to do it for prose in a book. Some explanations I've found around say to use block quotes for news paper articles. That seems like a start but there are some other things I'm not sure on. Like how are dialogue tags used for people speaking on TV? Or should a TV broadcast be treated differently than newspaper quotes? I've done some searching but there isn't a whole lot of advice. A lot of people are saying formatting is often up to the publisher. A similar question is [How to format news, poems, text messages, and other kinds of written text?](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/9029/how-to-format-news-poems-text-messages-and-other-kinds-of-written-text) but how to format TV dialogue wasn't answered there.
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System
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2019-01-18T20:30:41Z (over 5 years ago)
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