Max, a reporter with keen news mining ability and news production ability, witnessed the case of Sam taking hostages (a group of children) at gunpoint in the museum. The gun case shocked the country, which is enough to prove Max's remarkable ability to plan and make news
Max, who originally planned to take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore his status in the press, instead let his excellent news production ability ruin Sam.
With the attention and reports of many media, various media began to scramble for hot spots, the situation became uncontrollable, and finally had to end in tragedy.
And the phrase repeated many times but no one wants to listen: "we killed him, we killed him, we killed him" seemed so pale when Max was surrounded by cameras
Among them, the most absurd, and also the most wonderful reversal, is Max's portrayal of Sam, who wounded with a gun, into a kind and pitiful ordinary citizen who is struggling to make a living. Behind his hostage-taking is the oppression of life and the helplessness of reality. The public about the incident has shifted from hatred to sympathy for Sam
This is also Max's most successful place. He made full use of the role of public opinion guidance to guide the public's awareness and attitude. As the planner of the whole event, Max subtly changed the public's tendency to the event.
According to Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation, public opinion guidance, also known as public opinion guidance, is a kind of use of public opinion to manipulate people's consciousness and guide people's consciousness, so as to control people's behavior, so that they can engage in social activities in accordance with the line, policy, rules and regulations formulated by social managers Propagation behavior of the event.
This is why the ruling parties in various countries use the guidance of public opinion to publicize the correct guiding ideology, national development guidelines, policies, laws and regulations.
And Max narrowed down the direction of public opinion and applied it to a news report easily, which easily changed the tendency of events. It has to be said that Max applied communication and psychology to journalism.
Soon, Max's popularity was back and even higher than before; and the public slowly forgave Sam's unintentional gunshot wound, which seemed to be the best of both worlds!
However, this film cannot easily let Sam go, because Sam was killed by public opinion and the media
The dynamics of Sam's hostage-taking at the museum throughout the film have been dominated by the news media.
From the very beginning, Max transformed the vicious incident of Sam's gunshot wound into the difficulty of survival for little people. change the impact of events from bad to good,
The footage here shows the freshness of the children getting so much media attention in the museum, and how Sam got along very well with them. The children were not hurt in the slightest, but alive and kicking.
I went to Sam to live in the museum to accept an exclusive interview with media reporters. Here, Max always wanted to help Sam answer questions and make the incident develop in Sam's favor. However, Sam insisted on stubbornness, and then live-streamed a phone call from the parent of a kidnapped child. Parents say: 'A kidnapper holding a gun and wounding someone doesn't deserve sympathy' Here Sam himself shatters the image Max helped him build
The female intern who followed Max all the way to interview sold the recording of Max and Sam planning to make news to a famous TV station and made the scandal public. In the end, Sam couldn't stand the pressure of public opinion and chose to commit suicide
The entire film has been revolving around the media's coverage of the case, and each reporting media does not hesitate to create fake news in order to increase their ratings and popularity
This is the dereliction of duty by the news media. In this film, the news report no longer emphasizes authenticity and justice, but instead informs and publishes false information to serve its own media, thereby fooling the public. Bringing the ugly side of the news media to the fore
Although Max sacrificed his future to help Sam in the end, it was already too late, and Sam had been killed by public opinion
This is the sadness of the media, and it is also the lack of the media's responsibility, which should be a wake-up call for all the media.
May the tragedy of Sam never happen again
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