We say that movies are dream machines, creating illusions of the real world. But whether there is truth, especially for news, a piece of news is often reprocessed after being collected. Anyone who experiences such artificial processing, no matter how objectively narrated, will always be biased, as Plato explained about truth: The rational world is the primary, the origin of the world, and the supreme existence that governs all things. It does not depend on any external conditions to exist, transcendence, invisible and colorless, immortal, immortal, and eternal. The real world and the material world are secondary, imitating the rational world. Art is tertiary, it is a re-creation on the basis of facsimile, and it is separated from reality by two layers. Introducing Plato's ideas into the theory of communication, the effect will be the same as that of movies-news is made, and communication is controlled. The audience blocked by the media are both actors and audiences, and we live together in the "Dream Factory". Any form of news gathering and editing is a re-creation of the third nature. The "Dream Factory" of news can also create illusions comparable to movies. In the film, the first public controversy created by the producer team was an Albanian girl. Using war to divert public attention is a common tactic used by American politicians. They succeeded, the media and the public were involved in their elaborate scams, and the film produced by the "Dream Factory" of public opinion was a success as expected. Whether it is the escaped Albanian girl or the forgotten war hero Schumann, they are just the fuse of public opinion. To further ferment the incident, the participation of "opinion leaders" is needed-the producer's affectionate speech at the White House , Robert De Niro pioneered the "shoe throwing movement". It is these people who lit the fuse, and public opinion will be further intensified. Some of them spread to local areas, from local areas to the whole country and even the world. This is a manifestation of the strong effect of dissemination, like a bullet of thought, which penetrates everything as soon as it is sent, and influences the trend of public opinion. However, communication is not invincible. Soon after the authoritative clarification, the Albanian incident was forgotten by the public. This is a manifestation of the limited effect of communication. The public's reason will eventually prevail. This is why the same sentence is repeated in the film: " Never change horses in midstream. There are an infinite number of variables, and simulation is as difficult as realizing full artificial intelligence. But the brewing and fermentation process of a news event depicted in the film is traceable. The protagonists in the film seem to be manipulating the mass media, but they are actually the public's own choice, a manifestation of the right time and place. The producers create an incident, throw it to the media, and the media performs their own processing and polishing, and then throw it to the public. According to the spiral of silence, the public follows the opinion leaders, thus creating a wave. Among them, no one is in an absolute control position, and every link is full of countless unknown variables. Today’s media environment is more complex. In the era of new media, we have countless channels to obtain information. Without a closed and single communication environment, media is no longer omnipotent, and new media is only indispensable for promoting the development of the new world. One step, similarly, it will not be omnipotent. We must know that it is only a continuation of our senses, not a shackle that governs our actions. There are an infinite number of variables, and simulation is as difficult as realizing full artificial intelligence. But the brewing and fermentation process of a news event depicted in the film is traceable. The protagonists in the film seem to be manipulating the mass media, but they are actually the public's own choice, a manifestation of the right time and place. The producers create an incident, throw it to the media, and the media performs their own processing and polishing, and then throw it to the public. According to the spiral of silence, the public follows the opinion leaders, thus creating a wave. Among them, no one is in an absolute control position, and every link is full of countless unknown variables. Today’s media environment is more complex. In the era of new media, we have countless channels to obtain information. Without a closed and single communication environment, media is no longer omnipotent, and new media is only indispensable for promoting the development of the new world. One step, similarly, it will not be omnipotent. We must know that it is only a continuation of our senses, not a shackle that governs our actions.
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