After watching the film, I thought about the following three issues: 1. Media ethics In this film, the fact that Jewell was listed as a suspect was exposed to the public with a single-minded desire to get breaking news by female reporters. It is true that the female reporter's "enterprise" makes her create headlines regardless of authenticity and ethics. As the lawyer in the film said, "As long as the newspaper can be sold, she will do anything." However, the emergence of this kind of media out of control really cannot be avoided from the institutional level rather than just relying on the ethics of reporting people? Judging from the background of the film, the newspaper where the female reporter works is in a state of dying without big news. It can be seen that when there is anything "valuable", they have to report first to surpass their competitors. Under such circumstances, the deliberate pursuit of "new", "fast" and "odd" has become inevitable, so relevant censorship and prudence are naturally absent. But nowadays, we should actually think more about the media as the disseminator of information, whether the real purpose is to gain eyeballs and earn traffic or to faithfully transmit information. 2. Thinking about the relationship between the media and power (government) The female reporter in the article took the information that the FBI suspected of Jewell from industry partners through physical relationships and made it a big headline, which directly made the FBI want to confirm Jewell's incriminating evidence to avoid the loss of its credibility. This situation makes me think about the current issue of microblogging governance. In my opinion, the media's public opinion building is indeed conducive to speaking up for the weak; however, the judicial process must not be interfered by the media. Just as lawyers and mothers finally used the media (press conference) to ask the president for help, water can carry a boat and capsize it. 3. The optimal solution of small people in the era of big media
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