News Heroes in the Age of Traditional Media

Marianna 2022-03-21 09:01:43

The Insider is a really good movie. Whether it is a tobacco company executive who dares to tell the truth, a news producer who has the courage to reveal the truth, or even a news anchor who ultimately supports the truth, they are all full of idealism. The value of traditional media is reflected in the persistence of truth, which reminds people of Haley's novel The Evening News and Chai Jing's "Seeing".

The same is a news-themed film and television drama, The Newsroom still insists on the supremacy of truth and objective reporting, but the background is completely different, and the influence of the Internet age is deeply rooted. In The Newsroom, the obstruction from traditional enterprises and institutions has almost disappeared, and what remains is the influence of public opinion bias (information). In the Internet age, it is difficult for big companies and governments to obstruct the public's right to know, and such obstructing behavior will instead become a new news point. In The Insider, although the final fighter Lowe also stabbed the interference of tobacco companies on the media to the newspaper, he still faced great resistance and risks. If the Internet was a cheap and convenient media platform at the time, it wouldn't be so difficult.

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Extended Reading
  • Michelle 2022-03-21 09:01:43

    This is a pure American story, and the freedom and conscience of the press comes at a price. In the end, it all depends on luck.

  • Rogelio 2022-04-22 07:01:11

    Although the beginning was very dull, I fell asleep many times, and it took only four days to watch it, but the whole film is still very exciting, and I admire the people who do the news~

The Insider quotes

  • Sharon Tiller: You won.

    Lowell Bergman: Yeah? What did I win?

  • Lowell Bergman: You pay me to go get guys like Wigand, to draw him out. To get him to trust us, to get him to go on television. I do. I deliver him. He sits. He talks. He violates his own fucking confidentiality agreement. And he's only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue, maybe the biggest, most-expensive corporate-malfeasance case in U.S. history. And Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he's not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That's why we're not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets!