So much so, there's a trope about getting lost in it

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Are there ' TV tropes ' that are about media communications and stylings and not only about fictional content?

For instance, the kinds of jokes that Stephen Colbert makes on The Late Show on CBS? Or the way news anchors communicate, or the way media business decisions are made in regards to television shows.

Maybe we could call these metacommunications.

The story We Tell, the patterns and tools and structures we use to tell it.

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Was just watching Colbert here

Tvtropes covers nonfiction also even though there's more coverage of fiction on the site

Hi Jo and Evan :)

A trope is basically just a named pattern that appears across stories

And the patterns often have variations, and are sometimes "subverted" or appear in contrast to the common form of them

If you think about it, the line between fiction and nonfiction is pretty blurry when it comes to late night shows like Colbert's. Even though they're based on actual news events, they still use fiction tropes to create narratives about them for the sake of entertainment.