Why do they do this every time?

Okay, a plane crashes into a building and you, a news station, want to help people understand exactly what happened, so you make a little "virtual re-enactment" complete with 3d buildings. Okay. However, is it really necessary in your virtual re-enactment to have a virtual explosion, and virtual flames shooting out of the virtual apartments? I submit, no. Besides, if you're going to go that route, you may as well make it complete. Where is the virtual passport fluttering down to the ground? Where is the virtual distress call?