“As I write this, a TV detective drama is playing on the television, in which exactly the same sort of ‘selective editing’ is used to describe the apprehension of the murderer. The convention of detective drama is that you only refer to the information that has a bearing on the apprehension of the criminal, while in detective fiction, one or two red-herrings are allowed: however, in neither are the long hours of wasted legwork and time spent in pursuit of unrewarding lines of enquiry ever shown. As [[Alfred Hitchcock]] once said, ‘**drama is just real life with the boring bits edited out**’.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[story-bias]] , [[prosecutors-fallacy]] **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]