I'm not sure if this really has anything to do with editing, but I realized the other day that it seems like television shows follow an inverted pyramid style, especially reality shows with more than one segment. Broadcast news is definitely like this with the "top story" first, something that most viewers will watch first and then the less important news will come after and viewers begin to dwindle.
The same goes for television shows. For example, if you have ever seem the show "Ghost Hunters", the most interesting segment is first. The investigators usually find more evidence during this segment and it is more interesting. Some viewers might stick around for the second segment to see if what they pick up is more interesting, however, most of the time they do not find anything.
You can explore most reality shows and even some scripted shows and find this phenomena.
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I noticed that reality shows like Fear Factor and others also have 'refers'. The shows provide websites for further information and allow the audience to interact with inline opinions and blogs, and caller voting. I didn't think about television reality shows using newspaper techniques before reading this post.
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