About "news truth" mapping the current news industry crisis is worth seeing

Celestine 2022-01-07 15:54:50

I didn't plan to write anything, but when I was about to shut down, I saw the misleading "kind" face on the poster with the male pig's feet. I was also in love with the news industry and I had to sigh with emotion about this film.
The long-shot monologue at the very beginning (which is repeated at the end) makes people feel questionable. What is meant by "you can get a Pulitzer Prize if you write this way"... has long implied that the theme of the film is news and truthful. The problem... Afterwards, it was logical that the male lead appeared on the scene, and his kind face deceived everyone, so that when the old editor was fired and the new editor took office, the film was about the trust between the editor and the reporter. problem. (That face won’t be associated with a liar.) I
have to say that the male pig’s feet’s acting skills are superb and have deceived everyone. It is true in reality. He has deceived the strict censorship system, which makes me I thought of the forgery of the "New York Times", a major incident that also happened in the American newspapers a few years ago. (The wave behind the Yangtze River pushes the wave forward) In
the cross montage at the end, the male lead's obscenity in the classroom can't tell what he thinks in his heart. With conclusive evidence, he can still be calm when editing. Speaking, deceived all colleagues, and some even pleaded for him and were willing to resign. When the new editor-in-chief took office, he took the initiative to go to the office and get close to other people. After all, he was really a smart and thoughtful man, and his cleverness didn't take the right place. It was sad.
Let's talk about the male second, the real hero, for the truth of the news, for the honor of the magazine, and to resolve the crisis of trust in the news industry, he did bear too much pressure. It is said that for paper media, editors and reporters should trust each other and develop a tacit understanding for a long time. It cannot be said that the reporters under his opponents do not trust, but in the face of "news truth", any emotions should be succumbed to industry norms. In reality, Charles Wren died on the battlefield during the report on the Iraq War. The constant pursuit of the truth is what every journalist should do. They should appear in the place closest to the truth, which is also in contrast to Stephen who made up news when he never appeared in any news. It is ironic.
The last thing I want to reflect on is the self-discipline and supervision of the entire industry. In the strict supervision system, some people will find loopholes. This is undoubtedly clearly shown in the film; how to avoid it? The imperfections of the supervision system can be compensated by self-discipline. It seems that most people think so. But self-discipline is the most trustworthy. Everyone has a double personality. Maybe Glass is not a bad person, but he did do bad things. To borrow a sentence from other movies, "He is a bad guy". In addition, the male lead in the film turned out to have such superb acting skills, and will make people sympathize when the truth is revealed. Where, why should Stephen’s sympathy be shown to protect the truth of the news? The true
reproduction is of great significance today and in the future. I especially hope that friends in the press will take a look.

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Extended Reading
  • Hayden 2022-04-21 09:02:57

    Lies will always come to the fore. Choosing the truth seems difficult, but makes life easier.

  • Katelin 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    The plot is compact...

Shattered Glass quotes

  • Stephen Glass: I'm so dead. I mean, I'm over. Nobody's ever going to hire me again, are they? I was so sloppy trusting my sources like that... and then lying about it. And to Chuck, of all people. I mean, the one guy who's hated me all along.

    Michael Kelly: [talking on the stairs inside the lobby of his office building] I'm sure that none of this is personal.

    Stephen Glass: No? Chuck keeps a list in his head... everybody who's a "Michael Kelly" person. A couple of times, I said some things I shouldn't have said... about you. So now I'm on it. That's why he's so set on killing me now.

    Michael Kelly: Well, I have to tell you, Steve, he's within his rights. The things you did were fireable offenses.

    Stephen Glass: I know. I'm not saying that they weren't. I did some terrible, terrible things. But believe me, Michael, Chuck doesn't care about any of it. It's my loyalty to you that he's punishing me for.

  • Stephen Glass: [Speaking to Mrs. Duke's students] I'd like to pause for a moment. You can't really go into the world of journalism without first understanding how a piece gets edited at a place like TNR. This is the system that Michael Kelly brought with him from The New Yorker, a three day torture test. If your article is good, the process will only make it better. If your article is shaky, you're in for a long week. A story comes in, and it goes to a senior editor. He or she edits it on computer then calls in the writer, who makes revisions. Then the piece goes to a second editor, and the writer revises it again. Then it goes through a fact-check where every fact in the piece, every date, every title, every place or assertion is checked and verified. Then the piece goes to a copy editor where it is scrutinized once again. Then it goes to lawyers, who apply their own burdens of proof. Marty looks at it, too. He's very concerned with any kind of comment the magazine is making. Then production takes it and lays it out in columns inches and type. Then it goes back on paper, then back to the writer, back to the copy editor, back to editor number one and editor number two, back to the fact-checker, back to the writer, and back to production again. Throughout, those lawyers are reading and rereading, looking for red flags, anything that feels uncorroborated. Once they're satisfied, the pages are reprinted, and it all happens again. Every editor, the fact-checkers, they all go through it one last time. Now, most of you will start out as interns somewhere. And interns do a lot of fact-checking. So pay close attention. There is a hole in the fact-checking system. A big one. The facts in most pieces can be checked against some type of source material. If an article is on, say, Ethanol subsidies, you can check for discrepancies against the congressional record, trade publications... LexisNexis, footage from C-SPAN. But on other pieces, the only source material available are the notes provided by the reporter himself.